- Forecast by SKU, cost, item, currencies, margin, country, channel, customer location, etc.
- Drive inventory and safety stock levels according to customer requirements using the Service Level Optimizer
Supply Chain Glossary - M
Supply Chain Glossary - M
- M-day calendar also manufacturing calendar
- M-days
- machine center
- machine hours
- machine-limited capacity
- machine utilization
- machining center
- macro environment
- MAD
- mainframe
- maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) or MRO
- make-or-buy cost analysis
- management science also operations research
- managerial accounting
- manifest system
- manufacturability
- manufacturer's agent also manufacturer's representative
- manufacturer's representative
- manufacturing authorization also manufacturing order
- manufacturing cycle also manufacturing lead time
- manufacturing cycle efficiency
- manufacturing data sheet also routing
- manufacturing engineering
- manufacturing order reporting also production reporting and status control
- manufacturing progress curve also learning curve
- manufacturing ramp-up
- manufacturing release
- manufacturing representative also manufacturer's representative
- manufacturing
- many-to-many communication
- MAP
- margin
- marginal analysis
- marginal cost of capital
- marginal cost
- marginal pricing
- marginal product
- marginal revenue
- marginal utility
- market boundary
- market demand
- market penetration
- market-positioned warehouse
- market reach also market penetration
- market research also marketing research
- market segment
- market segmentation
- market share
- market strategy
- market targeting
- market value added
- marketing channel
- marketing cost analysis
- marketing management also demand management
- marketing mix
- marketing research
- marketing strategy
- marketing
- marquis partners
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- mass marketing
- mass production
- master route sheet
- material class
- material control also inventory control
- material definition
- material flexibility
- material list also picking list
- material planning also inventory planning
- material requirements plan
- material sublot
- material usage variance
- material yield also yield
- materials handling time
- materials requisition
- materiel
- matrix chart
- matrix
- maximum allowable cost
- maximum demonstrated capacity
- maximum inventory
- maximum order quantity
- MBO
- MBWA
- MDS
- mean time between failures (MTBF) or MTBF
- mean time for failures (MTFF) or MTFF
- mean
- measure of service also level of service
- measures constraint
- median
- merger
- MES
- message distribution
- metered issues
- metrics also performance measurement system
- microeconomics
- middleware
- milestone chart also Gantt chart
- milestone schedule
- milestone
- military standards
- minimum cost order quantity also economic order quantity
- minimum inventory
- minimum order quantity
- minor setup
- MIS
- mission statement
- mission
- mistake-proofing also failsafe work methods
- mix control
- mix flexibility
- mix number also lot number
- mixed-model scheduling
- mode
- model number
- modem
- modification flexibility
- modular bill of material
- module
- monitoring
- monopoly
- Monte
- move order
- move signal also move card
- move time
- movement inventory
- moving average forecast
- MPC
- MPS
- MRB
- MRO
- MRP II
- MRP
- MSDS
- MTBF
- MTFF
- MTM
- multicountry strategy
- multidomestic strategy also multicountry strategy
- multilevel master schedule
- multilevel where-used
- multimedia files
- multimedia
- multinational corporation
- multiple-item lot-sizing models
- multiple regression models
- multiple sourcing also multisourcing
- multiprocessing
- multisourcing
- multivariate control chart
- mutually exclusive project
multisourcing
Procurement of a good or service from more than one independent supplier. Syn: multiple sourcing. Ant: single sourcing.
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