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has been released to the stockroom but not yet sent out of the stockroom.
It is an uncashed stockroom requisition.
ANTICIPATED DELAY REPORT A report, normally issued by both manufacturing
and purchasing to the master scheduling or material planning
functions, regarding jobs or purchase orders that will not be completed
on time, explaining why not, and telling when they will be completed.
This is an essential ingredient of a closed-loop system.
APICS Formerly the American Production & Inventory Control Society.
Now identified as The Educational Society for Resource Management.
ASSEMBLE-TO-ORDER A process where the final products are finished to
customers’ configurations out of standard components. Many personal
computers are produced and sold on an assemble-to-order basis.
AUTOMATIC RESCHEDULING Allowing the computer to automatically
change due dates on scheduled receipts when it detects that due dates and
required dates are out of phase. Automatic rescheduling is usually not a
good idea.
AVAILABLE-TO-PROMISE (ATP) The uncommitted portion of inventory
and/or future production. This figure is frequently calculated from the
master schedule and is used as the primary tool for order promising. See
Capable-to-Promise.
BACKFLUSH The deduction from inventory of the components used in production
by exploding the bill of materials by the count of parent items produced.
See Post-deduct Inventory Transaction Processing.
BACKLOG All of the customer orders received but not yet shipped, irrespective
of when they are specified for shipment.
BACK SCHEDULING A technique for calculating operations start and due
dates. The schedule is calculated starting with the due date for the order
and working backward to determine the required completion dates for
each operation. This technique is used primarily in job shops (see Appendix
B).
BILL OF MATERIAL A listing of all the subassemblies, intermediates,
parts, and raw materials that go into a parent item, showing the quantity
of each component required. May also be called formula, recipe, or ingredients
list in certain industries.
BUCKETED SYSTEM An MRP, DRP, or other time-phased system in
which data are accumulated into time periods or buckets. If the period of
accumulation were to be one week, then the system would be said to have
weekly buckets.
BUCKETLESS SYSTEM An MRP, DRP, or other time-phased system in
which data are processed, stored, and displayed using dated records
rather than defined time periods or buckets.
BUSINESS PLAN A statement of income projections, costs, and profits