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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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61 Customer Supplier Relationship 43733
62 Date Code 17972
63 Days of Supply 19642
64 Dead on Arrival 9066
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7177
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7973
67 Detective Control 8779
68 Devanning 14094
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10716
70 Dispatching 24041
71 Distributed Inventory 8243
72 Distribution Channel Management 34372
73 Distribution Metrics 8901
74 Distribution Planning 24032
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15011
76 Double Marginalization 52397
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22125
78 Dual 5350
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20431
80 Echelon Inventory 25976
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38089
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49237
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7498
84 Efficient Frontier 25204
85 Engineer-to-Order 31482
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16162
87 Erlang B Formula 9212
88 ETD 8195
89 Ex Works 7741
90 Exception Rate 13295
91 Exponential smoothing 9716
92 External Growth 9923
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9304
94 Field Services 7650
95 Field Warehouse 9798
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8588
97 Fishbone Diagram 14453
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26754
99 Flow Through Distribution 12159
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8037
101 FOB Destination 12854
102 Forward buying 29870
103 Freight Charge 10204
104 Freight Consolidation 7417
105 Gantt Chart 8193
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11564
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29354
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12538
109 Hub 23212
110 Idle Time 7953
111 Import/Export License 8587
112 In Bond Shipment 13748
113 Inbound Logistics 13381
114 Interstate System 10868
115 Inventory Costs 53150
116 Inventory in Transit 16260
117 Inventory Management 54256
118 Inventory Planning System 9673
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22098
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41979
121 JIT 2 18314
122 Job Production 27088
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8907
124 Kanban Squares 6727
125 Laid-Down Cost 10005
126 Lean Office 5910
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10786
128 Lee's Notation 8454
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14008
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36712
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9083
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7346
133 Logistics Channel 22719
134 Logistics Costs 26441
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6601
136 Manifest 10386
137 Marks and Numbers 12412
138 Material Planning 34846
139 Materials Management 26185
140 Milk Run 42780
141 Mini Land Bridge 14263
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9352
143 Modal Split 15196
144 Movement of Goods 19269
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31306
146 North West Corner Method 16743
147 Numeric Distribution 13997
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28324
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48107
150 Operational Efficiency 9814
151 Operational Objectives 13217
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18017
153 Operational Sustainability 27671
154 Operations Management 20281
155 Order Cancellation 10622
156 Order Cycle 18292
157 Order Cycle Time 23353
158 Order Fill Rate 33806
159 Order Fulfillment 6371
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10146
 
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