MRP stands for manufacturing requirements planning.
One of the drivers of the direct-to-store (direct distribution) approach is the decrease in
trucking industry regulation.
ISO standards ask a company first to document and implement its systems for quality
management and then to verify, by means of an internal audit, the compliance of those
systems with the requirements of the standards.
SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Within a sustainability framework, the environmental dimension of the triple bottom
line concept has to do with labor, the community, and the region in which a firm
conducts its business.
“Kanban squares” is an educational game played in kanban training sessions.
One of the drivers of the direct-to-store (direct distribution) approach is the upstream
migration of value-added logistics services.