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unit 5 vocab
| Purchasing | business or organization attempting for acquiring goods or services to accomplish the goals of the enterprise |
| Inventory Control | the supervision of supply, storage and accessibility of items in order to ensure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
| Quality Control | a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. |
| Logistics | the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers |
| Operations | support system |
| Electronic Data Interchange | the structured transmission of data between organizations by electronic means |
| Flexible Manufacturing System | a manufacturing system in which there is some amount of flexibility that allows the system to react in the case of changes, whether predicted or unpredictable |
| Computer-Aided Manufacturing | the use of computer software to control machine tools and related machinery in the manufacturing of workpieces |
| Material Requirements Planning | a production planning and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes |
| Enterprise Resource Planning | systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. |
| Product planning | s the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product's feature set |
| Procurement | the acquisition of goods or services |
| Technical Data Management Systems | the management of technical and engineering drawings and documents |
| Purchase Order | a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services |
| Sealed Bid | a form of auction where bidders submit one bid in a concealed fashion |
| Dutch auctions | a type of auction where the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the price |
| Reverse auctions | type of auction in which the roles of buyers and sellers are reversed |
| Vendor | or a supplier, is a supply chain management term meaning anyone who provides goods or services to a company |
| Commitment | Contract, a legally binding exchange of promises |
| Over-commitment | to bind or obligate beyond the capacity for realization |
| Compartmentalization | the act of splitting an idea or concept up into parts, and trying to enforce thought processes which are inhibiting attempts to allow these parts to mix together again |
| Employee benefits | |
| Employee relations | Employee relations’ is a common title for the industrial relations function within personnel management and is also sometimes used as an alternative label for the academic field of industrial relations |
| Compensation | something given or received as an equivalent for services |
| Staffing | may refer to: Employment agency · Human resources · Recruitment |