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  2. Reorder point - Wikipedia

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    The two factors that determine the appropriate order point are the delivery time stock, which is the inventory needed during the lead time (i.e., the difference between the order date and the receipt of the inventory ordered), and the safety stock, which is the minimum level of inventory that is held as a protection against shortages due to ...

  3. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  4. Market environment - Wikipedia

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    Market environment and business environment are marketing terms that refer to factors and forces that affect a firm's ability to build and maintain successful customer relationships. The business environment has been defined as "the totality of physical and social factors that are taken directly into consideration in the decision-making ...

  5. Factors of production - Wikipedia

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    The factors are also frequently labeled "producer goods or services" to distinguish them from the goods or services purchased by consumers, which are frequently labeled "consumer goods". [2] There are two types of factors: primary and secondary. The previously mentioned primary factors are land, labour and capital.

  6. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied ...

  7. Glossary of experimental design - Wikipedia

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    Crossed factors: Two factors are crossed if every level of one occurs with every level of the other in the experiment. Nested factors: A factor "A" is nested within another factor "B" if the levels or values of "A" are different for every level or value of "B". Note: Nested factors or effects have a hierarchical relationship.

  8. Push and pull factors in migration - Wikipedia

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    Push and pull factors in migration according to Everett S. Lee (1917-2007) are categories that demographers use to analyze human migration from former areas to new host locations. Lee's model divides factors causing migrations into two groups of factors: push and pull.

  9. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    Other terms with the same meaning: contributor, user. Edit war Two or more parties continually making their preferred changes to a page, each persistently undoing the changes made by the opposite party. Often, an edit war is the result of an argument that could not be resolved on a talk page. Edit wars are not permitted and may lead to blocks.