Umbc is 300 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Supply Chains - The flow of materials, information money and services from raw material suppliers,through factories and warehouses to the end customer Three Segments of the Supply Chain - upstream, internal, downstream Upstream - Sourcing or procurement from external sources Internal - Packaging, assembly or manufacturing Downstream - Where distribution takes place, frequently by external distributors Material Flows - The physical products, raw materials, supplies, and so forth that flow a...

Computer Network - a system that connects computers and other devices via communications media so that data and information can be transmitted among them Bandwidth - the transmission capacity of a network, stated in bits per second Broadband - Transmission capacity of a communications medium, faster than 25mbps PAN - Personal Area Network LAN - Local area network, usually connects two or more devices in a limited geographical region WAN - Wide area network, collection of LANs, usually phon...

Social Computing - a type of IT that combines social behavior and information systems to create value Web 2.0 - a loose collection of information technologies and applications Tagging - a keyword or term that describes a piece of information Folksonomies - user generated classifications that use tags to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photos, videos, and other Web content. Geotagging - a specific form of tagging referring to tagging information on maps Blog - personal website, in which...

blog - A personal Web site, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions with a series of chronological entries blogosphere - The term for the millions of blogs on the Web collaborative consumption - An economic model based on sharing, swapping, trading, or renting products and services, enabling access over ownership microblogging - A form of blogging that allows users to write short messages (or capture an image or embedded video) and publish th...

Supply Chain - the flow of materials, information, money, and services from raw material suppliers, through factories and warehouses, to the end customers. Supply Chain Visibility - the ability of all organizations within a supply chain to access or view relevant data on purchased materials as these materials move through their suppliers' production processes and transportation networks to their receiving docks. Inventory Velocity - the speed at which a company can deliver products and ser...