supply chain management

collocation in English

meaningsofsupply,chainandmanagement

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supply
noun
uk
/səˈplaɪ/
us
/səˈplaɪ/
an amount of something that is available ...
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chain
noun
uk
/tʃeɪn/
us
/tʃeɪn/
a series of things of the same type connected in a line, or a series of people standing in ...
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management
noun
uk
/ˈmæn.ɪdʒ.mənt/
us
/ˈmæn.ədʒ.mənt/
the control and organization ...
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(Definition ofsupply,chainandmanagementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His research interests include product design, supplychainmanagement, and mathematical programming.
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Several of the identified market trends, such as supplychainmanagementand contracting, favor larger-scale and more specialized production systems.
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Food marketers beyond the farm have had a greater emphasis on supplychainmanagement.
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His research interests are collaborative product development, supplychainmanagement, and knowledge-based manufacturing.
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Supplychainmanagementbecame a driving force in the food system.
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As food marketing firms have emphasized increased productivity through supplychainmanagement, some of the tasks traditionally carried out by these firms have been transferred to their buyers.
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They include problems relating to spares, asset tracking and supplychainmanagement.
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There are developments in relationships with customers—life style clothing retailers, department stores, mail order companies and so on—to build and develop supplychainmanagement.
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We also need to establish good supplychainmanagement, create cutting edge research and make more innovative products.
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These services include electronic sourcing, virtual / vertical mechanics, logistics, supplychainmanagement, advanced planning, quality, standardized global systems, and supply chain solutions and business analytics.
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By taking into account data from across the value chain (potentially through collaborative supplychainmanagementand planning), manufacturers can smooth spiky order patterns.
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The best commercial practitioners of globally distributed supplychainmanagementand customer relationship management employ net-centric methods.
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Supplychainmanagementin military logistics often deals with a number of variables in predicting cost, deterioration, consumption, and future demand.
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The latter two are makers of accounting and supplychainmanagementsoftware, respectively.
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