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Design for Six Sigma is a technique that prescribes a specific approach to product design emphasizing variability reduction and quality.
Industry:Technology
Deployment services support the implementation and rollout of new applications or infrastructure. Activities may include hardware or software procurement, configuration, tuning, staging, installation and interoperability testing.
Industry:Technology
Continuous improvement model of “Plan, Do, Check, Act.” Often represented as the four quadrants of the rim of a circle to reflect the fact that once all four elements have been accomplished, the cycle repeats.
Industry:Technology
Demand-driven value network (DDVN) is a business environment holistically designed to maximize value of and optimize risk across the set of extended supply chain processes and technologies that senses and orchestrates demand based on a near-zero-latency demand signal across multiple networks of corporate stakeholders and trading partners.
Industry:Technology
Demand signal repository (DSR) is a centralized database that stores, harmonizes and normalizes data attributes and organizes large volumes of demand data—such as point-of-sale (POS) data, wholesaler data, electronic data interchange (EDI) 852 and 867, inventory movement, promotional data and customer loyalty data for use by decision support technologies (category management, account team joint value creation, shopper insight analysis, demand planning forecast improvement, inventory deployment, replenishment and transportation planning). At the enterprise level, DSRs can become the foundation for a comprehensive information architecture strategy, driving an array of demand and supply-related predictive analytic applications and processes. The definition will continue to evolve as additional sources of demand data become available (i.e., social media mining and the emergence of the digital-mobile consumer).
Industry:Technology
Demand response (DR) is broadly defined as a measure for reducing energy load in response to supply constraints, generally during periods of peak demand.
Industry:Technology
Demand pattern analysis is an emerging area in supply chain management (SCM) that analyzes customer and demand data to better predict demand across multiple time horizons in a demand-driven value network (DDVN). For example, in the strategic time horizon (12 months to three years), companies can analyze macro changes in customer demand, macroeconomic indicators and corporate strategic business goals, such as reaching a target market share for an established product. Tactically (12 weeks to 12 months), companies can better analyze demand with increased collaboration with customers on marketing plans, including more alignment for new product introduction (NPI), seasonality or a promotional event. Operationally (one week to 12 weeks), companies can leverage frameworks like collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) and causal forecasting, as opposed to relying on lagging historical demand data to determine downstream needs and opportunities.
Industry:Technology
Demand forecasting applications incorporate historical and predictive customer demand information into production line and sales quotas.
Industry:Technology
“Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control”; a problem-solving methodology associated with Six Sigma process improvement.
Industry:Technology
The U.S. government department that developed the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) ARPANET protocol architecture.
Industry:Technology
