Supply chain

Supply chain

Of or referring to a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information, and resources that develops a product from supplier to customer in an efficient manner.

Industry: Software

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Quality function deployment (QFD)

Software; Supply chain

An overall methodology that begins in the design process and attempts to map the customer-defined expectation and definition of quality into the processes and parameters that will fulfil them. It ...

Voucher number

Software; Supply chain

An internal number assigned in accounts payable to track and reference one or more invoices.

Demand pattern

Software; Supply chain

The characterization of product demand in terms of regularity, volume and timing that determine company policies in creating forecast, inventory reorder and lot size parameters.

To separate discrete levels from the total of a given item, based on time, specific batch identifier, or some other factor. On-hand inventory is sometimes layered to isolate the specific timing of ...

Third party logistics provider (3PL)

Software; Supply chain

An outsourced provider that manages all or a significant part of an organization's logistics requirements and performs transportation, locating and sometimes product consolidation activities.

Manual reschedule

Software; Supply chain

To change the expected date of an open production, purchase or interplant order by a planner or other person, based on a suggestion from MRP or other information. It requires a review process that ...

Quality assurance

Software; Supply chain

The set of activities that specifies acceptable material and process parameters and measures actual performance in meeting defined quality standards. When used in reference to a department-quality ...