La chaîne de valeur est l'ensemble des étapes déterminant la capacité d'un domaine d'activité stratégique (DAS), d'une entreprise ou d'une organisation à obtenir un avantage concurrentiel. Ces étapes correspondent aux services de l'entreprise ou, de manière arbitraire, aux activités complexes imbriquées qui constituent l'organisation. Déterminer la chaîne de valeur d'une entreprise peut se définir comme le fait d'étudier précisément les activités de l’entreprise afin de mettre en évidence ses fonctions clés, c’est-à-dire celles qui ont un impact réel en termes de coût ou de qualité et qui lui donneront un avantage concurrentiel.
Production planning is the planning of production and manufacturing modules in a company or industry. It utilizes the resource allocation of activities of employees, materials and production capacity, in order to serve different customers. Different types of production methods, such as single item manufacturing, batch production, mass production, continuous production etc. have their own type of production planning. Production planning can be combined with production control into production planning and control, or it can be combined with enterprise resource planning.
A supply chain, sometimes expressed as a "supply-chain", is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them to end consumers or end customers. Meanwhile, supply chain management deals with the flow of goods within the supply chain in the most efficient manner. In sophisticated supply chain systems, used products may re-enter the supply chain at any point where residual value is recyclable. Supply chains link value chains.
Field inventory management commonly known as inventory management is the function of understanding the stock mix of a company and the different demands on that stock. The demands are influenced by both external and internal factors and are balanced by the creation of purchase order requests to keep supplies at a reasonable or prescribed level. Inventory management is important for every other business enterprise.
Material theory (or more formally the mathematical theory of inventory and production) is the sub-specialty within operations research and operations management that is concerned with the design of production/inventory systems to minimize costs: it studies the decisions faced by firms and the military in connection with manufacturing, warehousing, supply chains, spare part allocation and so on and provides the mathematical foundation for logistics.
