definition of supply chain management architecture?
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DEFINITION\nsupply chain management\n Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. Supply chain management involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among companies. It is said that the ultimate goal of any effective supply chain management system is to reduce inventory (with the assumption that products are available when needed). As a solution for successful supply chain management, sophisticated software systems with Web interfaces are competing with Web-based application service providers (ASP) who promise to provide part or all of the SCM service for companies who rent their service. \nSupply chain management flows can be divided into three main flows: \n\nThe product flow \nThe information flow \nThe finances flow
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Oracle Retail solutions—a combination of technology and comprehensive business applications...\nhttp://www.oracle.com/industries/retail/index.html
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"Quality management is a method for ensuring that all the activities necessary to design, develop and implement a product or service are effective and efficient with respect to the system and its performance."
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In computer engineering, computer architecture is the conceptual design and fundamental operational structure of a computer system. It is a blueprint and functional description of requirements (especially speeds and interconnections) and design implementations for the various parts of a computer —focusing largely on the way by which the CPU performs internally and accesses addresses in memory.\n\n"Architecture" hence typically refers to the fixed internal structure of the CPU (ie. electronic switches to represent logic gates) to perform logical operations, and may also include the built-in interface (ie. opcode) by which hardware resources (ie. CPU, memory, and also motherboard, peripherals) may be used by the software.\n\nMore specific usages of the term include:\n\nThe design of a computer's CPU architecture, instruction set, addressing modes, and techniques such as SIMD and MIMD parallelism. \nMore general wider-scale hardware architectures, such as cluster computing and Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures. \nArchitecture is often defined as the set of machine attributes that a programmer should understand in order to successfully program the specific computer (i.e., being able to reason about what the program will do when executed). For example, part of the architecture are the instructions and the width of operands manipulated by them. Similarly, the frequency at which the system operates is not part of the architecture. This definition reveals the two main considerations for computer architects: (1) Design hardware that behaves as the programmers think it should. (2) Utilize existing implementation technologies (e.g., semiconductors) to build the best computer possible (best can be defined in many different ways as described in Design Goals). The latter consideration is often referred to as microarchitecture.
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The supply chain goes something like this:\n\nManufacturer - Wholesaler/Distributor - Retailer - End User\n\nVolume is the key.  The manufacturer prefers to sell to wholesalers because they buy in high volumes and therefore they can buy at a lower price.  This format trickles down the supply chain, all the way to the end user. If you are looking for products you can buy then sell on eBay, you probably won't buy direct from the manufacturer. Wholesalers are your best chance but they prefer to deal in high volumes.  Depending on the product, the mark up from wholesaler and retailer is 30% each. Good luck
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It usually means the problems of handling the details of an operation.  \n\n"Logistics" is a military term. It means the aspects of dealing with the procurement, maintenance and transportation of military material.\n\nMost industries in business have assimilated the term adapting it operations and supply chain.
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Hah, this I know, as I do it for work every single day, as an employee of one of the largest supply chain companies in the world, deisnging and implementing supply chain solutions for some of the biggest manufacturers in the world.  I am going to approach this from the inbound side.\nInventory Management in the supply chain is extremely important for many reasons.  Firstly, accurate quantities, part numbers, etc must be accurately maintained, so that the manufacturing lines can plan their work accordingly.  Maintaining correct stock balances is also important from the standpoint that it keeps your lines from running short during production.  It also allows min/max levels to be maintained, which helps keep material flowing in, but makes it so that the level of the stock never exceeds predefined minimums or maximums.\nAnother approach that can be used is a Vendor Managed Inventory facility.  These are often set up in a geographical location that is close to the manufacturing facility.  All part suppliers to the manufacturer send their parts directly to this facility (or hub), generally run by a third party logistics provider.  The Suppliers actually own the material as long as it resides within the facility.  When manufacturing lines need parts, they place an order to the 3PL, which picks and ships the order.  When the order ships, ownership transfers to the manufacturer, who then pays the Supplier.  The benefits of this type facility are many.  It keeps the inventory off of the manufacturers book as long as possible.  It keeps the shop floor empty of stored material, and leaves it open for manufacturing lines.  It allows material to reach the lines in a Just In Time model.\nAnyway, thats about it for now, I dont want to go on much longer with this answer, its too long already.
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System Application Products in Data Processing. It is An Enterprise Resources Planning Pakage
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It's an Entity Relationship diagram. It is a graphical representation of data models and is typically used when designing a database or other information system.
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The best thing to do to get Computer Science (C.S.) definitions is to search the C.S. literature for the most important publications.\nYou can do that by going to :\nhttp://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/\nand trying all the terms you need.\n\nFor fun however, here are my definitions, according to my understanding of the concept involved:\n\nSoftware Architecture refers to the structural choices and to the plan followed by the designer concerning the software. There are architectural patterns that software architects are using to structure their software and to communicate it to others. Popular architectural patterns include the Model-View-Controller pattern (MVC), Broker, Blackboard and many others.\n\nAn Object Oriented Framework is a library of design and implementation for a family of products on a specific domain. A framework is different than a library, because it includes design. It contains the common parts of a family of products and lets developers descibe the variability in particular ways (extensions). \n\nA methodology (or a method) is a well defined process that software developers can follow to take a software system from conceptualisation to implementation. RUP is one of the most famous methodologies, many other exist.
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E-procurement (Electronic Procurement) is the business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies and services through the Internet as well as other information and networking systems, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). An important part of many B2B sites, e-procurement is also sometimes referred to by other terms, such as supplier exchange. Typically, e-procurement Web sites allow qualified and registered users to look for buyers or sellers of goods and services. Depending on the approach, buyers or sellers may specify prices or invite bids. Transactions can be initiated and completed. Ongoing purchases may qualify customers for volume discounts or special offers. E-procurement software may make it possible to automate some buying and selling. Companies participating expect to be able to control parts inventories more effectively, reduce purchasing agent overhead, and improve manufacturing cycles. E-procurement is expected to be integrated with the trend toward computerized supply chain management.\n\nThere are six main types of e-procurement:\n\nWeb-based ERP (Electronic Resource Planning): Creating and approving purchasing requisitions, placing purchase orders and receiving goods and services by using a software system based on Internet technology. \ne-MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operating): The same as web-based ERP except that the goods and services ordered are non-product related MRO supplies. \ne-sourcing: Identifying new suppliers for a specific category of purchasing requirements using Internet technology. \ne-tendering: Sending requests for information and prices to suppliers and receiving the responses of suppliers using Internet technology. \ne-reverse auctioning: Using Internet technology to buy goods and services from a number of known or unknown suppliers. \ne-informing: Gathering and distributing purchasing information both from and to internal and external parties using Internet technology. \nVocabulary for e-procurement:\n\nRFI: request for information. \nRFO': request for offer \nRFQ: request for quotation \nRFx: the above three together. \nProcurement catalogs are individually negotiated electronic product catalogs and must comply with the specific requirements of the purchasing organization. One important aspect of electronic procurement in large companies is control of the acquisition process. The company's employees are not supposed to order the goods they need from just any supplier (cf. Maverick Buying), but from suppliers with whom a framework agreement has been reached. The product catalogs of the manufacturers, therefore, have to be fed into the purchasing organization's procurement systems directly – and employees are only allowed to order from these catalogs. \nThis means that the catalogs must meet specific format requirements, such as BMEcat or eCl@ss, for example. These requirements may differ from one company to another. To create these catalogs, you need a catalog solution that can derive different catalog versions from a central database with a minimum of maintenance.\ne-Procurement is the term for electronic procurement or purchasing. e-Procurement is a part of e-business and is used to designate the optimized, Internet-based acquisition process of a company. It refers not just to the purchasing process itself but to electronic negotiations and the conclusion of contracts with suppliers as well. \nBecause the purchasing process is simplified by the electronic handling of operative tasks, strategic tasks can be given a more important role in the process. These new strategic purchasing tasks include the management of contacts to existing and new suppliers as well as the creation of new market structures by actively consolidating the supply-side.
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It's the chain of activities associated with providing a product or service to your customers.  In general, the term implies that the beginning of the chain starts with the suppliers who supply product to your suppliers, and runs all the way thru your own production to your customers and their customers.
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Order management system: Software that receives customer order information and inventory availability from the warehouse management system and then groups orders by customer and priority, allocates inventory, and determines delivery dates; also called order processing system\n\ntry google & other search engines with links to information managemnt\n\nbye & best of luck
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Generally a three tiered architecture consists of a backend (database), a business tier, and a presentation tier.\n\nThe backend tier would consist of all the databases or other backend services which the application would consume.  The interface into this tier is generally some sort of database or webservice protocol (ODBC or JDBC for databases, SOAP etc. for webservices.)\n\nThe business tier is where all of the application logic and control flow resides.  This is generally where the majority of the application code lives.  The purpose of this tier is to encapsulate the logic of the application in to coarse-grained services which can be consumed by the presentation tier.  The business tier is responsible for receiving input from the presentation tier, making any necessary updates or queries to the backend tier, and providing output back to the presentation tier.  The main motivation for creating this tier and using a tierd architecture to begin with is to decouple the user interface from the backend systems used by the application.\n\nThe presentation tier encapulates the user interface.  Since your system is web based this would likely consist of ASP pages or Java servlets running on some sort of a web server.  The presentation tie serves as the single point of interface with the user and then communicates with the business tier through the services it exposes.  This communication could happen in a number of ways.  Remote object calls using something like CORBA or .Net remoting, web service invocation, or external messaging services are all options for communication between the presentation and business tiers.\n\nAs I said before, the important thing is that the presentation tier stay decoupled from the backend by interfacing only with the business tier.  This way if something about the database changes, the business tier is the only part of the application that has to change and all the user interface code can remain isolated.
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read this\n\nhttp://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/fus/fus99/FAQ_value_added98.pdf#search='model%20value%20added%20chain'\n\nModel should include collaborative inventory forecast management, suppliers, order cycle, TMS, in house processes (receiving, order processing,tagging, etc), and delivery cycles.
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Project Procurement Management includes the processes to purchase or acquire the products, services, or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work. \n\nProject Procurement Management includes the contract management and change control processes required to administer contracts or purchase orders issued by authorized project team members.\n\nProject Procurement Management also includes administering any contract issued by an outside organization (the buyer) that is acquiring the project from the performing organization (the seller), and administering contractual obligations.
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"Realisation phase" is not a standard project management term.  Are you referring to a concept, or perhaps, requirements phase ? Or even the realization of project results in the execution phase ?