1. inventory or goods or stockpiling?
Tangible items awaiting sale or use.
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2. bill of materials or inventory or project?
A unique collection
of activities creating a
particular outcome.
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3. incident or robustness or ethics?
complex adaptive system
A natural or artificial entity that consists of many semi-autonomous parts, whose actions and interactions define the behavior and success of the whole.
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4. value creation or sustainability or scientific management?
Achieving positive value-added.
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5. scientific management or sustainability or ethics?
Principles governing
conduct, delineating good from bad.
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6. remanufacturing or NGO or lean?
Production of finished goods from the recycled components of returned goods.
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7. green Assures sustainability. ethics or lean or green?
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8. planning horizon or incident or value-added?
The farthest point in
the future considered in
decision making.
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9. strategy or productivity or business analytics?
A measurement of value
creation, calculated as
a ratio of the values of
output to input.
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10. planning horizon or tactics or iterative planning?
Deliberately adjusting plans at short intervals, to reflect new information.
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11. lean or green or sustainability?
Operating without waste.
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12. strategy or tactics or business analytics?
A methodology and
resulting plan that identifies the long-term goals of an organization.
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13. tangibility or responsibility or sustainability?
The degree of perceivable, physical essence of a product.
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14. supply chain or NGO or biomimicry?
A nongovernmental
organization, understood to be a nonprofit organization as well.
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15. processes or supply chain or operations?
A set of activities dedicated to the transformation of inputs into outputs of greater value.
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16. responsibility or productivity or sustainability?
An obligation to perform.
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17. biomimicry The imitation of natural processes and systems.
biomimicry or supply chain or incident?
biomimicry
The imitation of natural
processes and systems.
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18. tactics or processes or value creation?
Activities that transform
inputs into outputs.
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19. goods or inventory or project?
Tangible products.
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20. scientific management or business analytics or local optimization?
Continuous investigation of
business performance using large volumes of data.
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21. bill of materials A description of all raw
inputs or bill of materials or processes?
bill of materials
A description of all raw
materials and intermediate assemblies required to create a finished product.
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22. biomimicry or NGO or redundancy?
Duplication of an element within a system.
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23. NGO or scientific management or value chain?
A system consisting of’
all functions within an
organization that play some role in adding value to the organization’s product.
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24. green or sustainability or ethics?
The degree to which
activity with immediate
benefit does not incur
greater costs in the long
term.
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25. robustness or lean or tactics?
Providing stable reliability despite changing conditions.
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26. ethics or business analytics or scientific management?
A methodology stressing the use of data collection and analysis to redesign
processes and improve
efficiency.
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27. bill of materials or stockpiling or business analytics?
Producing or securing
goods in advance of
demand.
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28. project or incident or planning horizon?
An unscheduled event
requiring immediate
resolution.
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29. goods or value-added or stockpiling?
The difference between the total value of the outputs and the total value of the inputs associated with an
operation.
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30. biomimicry or bill of materials or supply chain?
A system consisting of all organizations that play some role in supplying a particular product to a customer.
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31. responsibility or productivity or tactics?
Means to pursue strategic goals with available resources.
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32. ethics or scientific management or local optimization?
Localized problem solving that ignores any larger problem of which the local decision is a component.
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33. goods or services or productivity?
Intangible products.
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