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.

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Supply chain

A thinking process tool used in the theory of constraints to focus attention on the management and improvement of a system and its constraint. The steps include 1) identify the constraint 2) exploit ...

Median

Software; Supply chain

The middle value in a group of ranked values that has an equal number of values both above and below it. It indicates the centerline of a distribution, while the mean, or average, can be skewed by a ...

Balance sheet

Software; Supply chain

A basic financial statement that measures the positions of a company's assets, liabilities and shareholders' equity as of a given date and usually compares those positions to the status on the same ...

First order smoothing

Software; Supply chain

Forecasting exponential smoothing systems that do not contain parameters or adjustments for the effects of trends and seasonality.

Mean

Software; Supply chain

The average of a set of numeric values, as calculated by summing the individual values and dividing by the number of values in the set.

Balloon number

Software; Supply chain

A reference number that points to a component or assembly on an engineering drawing and corresponds to a part number, usually listed in a table on the side of the drawing. (syn: bubble number)

Groupware

Software; Supply chain

Software and systems that allow a distributed group of people to work on common activities, and include functions such as group calendars, real-time network meetings, common database access and ...