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Operations and Supply Chain Terms


Operations concepts, definitions and terms are covered in this Operations & SCM Dictionary. Operations & supplychain terms glossary covers concepts, definitions & tutorials related to SCM, inventory, logistics, warehousing, procurement, distribution and more.

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51 Container Freight Station 8686
52 Continuous Replenishment 16938
53 Continuous Replenishment Program 10240
54 Contract Carrier 5958
55 Contract of Affreightment 9588
56 Control Charts 6413
57 Cost Flow 8490
58 Courier Service 12394
59 CPFR 6436
60 Cumulative Lead Time 9928
61 Customer Supplier Relationship 36044
62 Date Code 14618
63 Days of Supply 17288
64 Dead on Arrival 6965
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 5776
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 6167
67 Detective Control 6993
68 Devanning 12273
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 8426
70 Dispatching 19263
71 Distributed Inventory 6845
72 Distribution Channel Management 28512
73 Distribution Metrics 6389
74 Distribution Planning 21559
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 12504
76 Double Marginalization 48114
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 19895
78 Dual 3905
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 18434
80 Echelon Inventory 23941
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 34856
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 42513
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 5927
84 Efficient Frontier 21561
85 Engineer-to-Order 27641
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 13427
87 Erlang B Formula 7247
88 ETD 6488
89 Ex Works 6236
90 Exception Rate 10429
91 Exponential smoothing 8085
92 External Growth 8192
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 7612
94 Field Services 6233
95 Field Warehouse 7902
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 5579
97 Fishbone Diagram 12465
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 22353
99 Flow Through Distribution 10189
100 FOB (Free On Board) 6215
101 FOB Destination 10155
102 Forward buying 27145
103 Freight Charge 8805
104 Freight Consolidation 5916
105 Gantt Chart 6965
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 9151
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 26163
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 10838
109 Hub 20530
110 Idle Time 6546
111 Import/Export License 6775
112 In Bond Shipment 11629
113 Inbound Logistics 11422
114 Interstate System 9464
115 Inventory Costs 45607
116 Inventory in Transit 13410
117 Inventory Management 45890
118 Inventory Planning System 7637
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 19278
120 JIT (Just In Time) 32391
121 JIT 2 16797
122 Job Production 19662
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 7216
124 Kanban Squares 5371
125 Laid-Down Cost 8200
126 Lean Office 4780
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 9768
128 Lee's Notation 6636
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 11049
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 32210
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 7112
132 Linear and Logistics Model 5958
133 Logistics Channel 20179
134 Logistics Costs 23708
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 5376
136 Manifest 8145
137 Marks and Numbers 9993
138 Material Planning 29220
139 Materials Management 23105
140 Milk Run 37186
141 Mini Land Bridge 12485
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 7807
143 Modal Split 12634
144 Movement of Goods 16116
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 27614
146 North West Corner Method 15187
147 Numeric Distribution 11168
148 One Level Distribution Channel 25348
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 44077
150 Operational Efficiency 8304
 
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