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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "Z"

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Z Zone of Rate Flexibility: Railroads may raise rates by a percentage increase in the railroad cost index that the ICC determines...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "Y"

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Y Yield: The ratio of usable output from a process to its input.

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "X"

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X X12: The ANSI standard for inter-industry electronic interchange of business transactions. XML: * See Extensible Markup ...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "W"

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W Wall-to-Wall Inventory: An inventory management technique in which material enters a plant and is processed through the plant i...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "V"

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V Valuation Charges: Transportation charges to shippers who declare a value of goods higher than the value of the carriers' l...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "U"

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U Ubiquity: A raw material that is found at all locations. UCC: See: Uniform Code Council (UCC) ; also see: EAN.UCC . UL...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "T"

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T Tactical Planning: The process of developing a set of tactical plants (e.g., production plan, sales plan, marketing plan, and s...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "S"

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S S&OP: See Sales and Operations Planning . SAE: Society of Automotive Engineers Safety Stock: The inventory a com...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "R"

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R Radio Frequency (RF): A form of wireless communications that lets users relay information via electromagnetic energy waves from...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "Q"

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Q QFD: See Quality Function Deployment (QFD) . QR: See Quick Response (QR) . Quality: Conformance to requirements or fi...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "P"

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P P & D: Pickup and delivery. P2P: See Path to Profitability (P2P) . Packing List: A document containing informatio...

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "O"

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O Obsolete Inventory: Inventory for which there is no forecast demand expected. A condition of being out of date. A loss of value...