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- NAFTA
- national stock number (NSN) or NSN
- National
- NC
- near-critical activity
- need date
- negative float
- negligence
- negotiation
- nervousness
- net income (loss)
- net inventory also available inventory
- net operating cash flow
- net operating income
- net sales
- net weight
- net working capital
- netting
- network analysis
- network planning
- network
- new product development team also participative design/engineering
- NLRB
- no-touch exchange of dies (NTED) or NTED
- node
- noise
- nominal capacity also rated capacity
- nominal interest rate
- nominal trading partner
- non-value added
- nonconforming material
- nonconformity
- noncurrent assets
- nonexempt employee
- nonexempt positions
- nonlinear programming
- nonproduction material
- nonrecurring material
- nonscheduled hours
- nonsignificant part number
- NOPAT
- normal and proper usage
- normal distribution
- normalize
- North
- np chart
- NSN
- NTED
- number of affected units chart also np chart
- number of workers, and so on.
- numerical control (NC) or NC
nominal trading partner
Any organization external to the firm that provides an essential material or service, but whose financial success is largely independent of the financial success of the supply chain community.
A computational aid consisting of two or more scales drawn and arranged so that the results of calculations may be found by the linear connection of points on them. Historically, it was used for calculating economic lot sizes or sample sizes for work measurement observations. Also called an alignment chart.
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