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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 42843
62 Date Code 17555
63 Days of Supply 19291
64 Dead on Arrival 8789
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7000
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7738
67 Detective Control 8611
68 Devanning 13888
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10450
70 Dispatching 23278
71 Distributed Inventory 8081
72 Distribution Channel Management 33684
73 Distribution Metrics 8524
74 Distribution Planning 23739
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14683
76 Double Marginalization 51904
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21861
78 Dual 5166
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20210
80 Echelon Inventory 25729
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37791
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48399
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7319
84 Efficient Frontier 24729
85 Engineer-to-Order 31040
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15691
87 Erlang B Formula 8960
88 ETD 7991
89 Ex Works 7590
90 Exception Rate 12975
91 Exponential smoothing 9504
92 External Growth 9712
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9115
94 Field Services 7508
95 Field Warehouse 9563
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8269
97 Fishbone Diagram 14177
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26309
99 Flow Through Distribution 11925
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7813
101 FOB Destination 12518
102 Forward buying 29523
103 Freight Charge 10005
104 Freight Consolidation 7209
105 Gantt Chart 8023
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11270
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 28883
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12339
109 Hub 22870
110 Idle Time 7766
111 Import/Export License 8362
112 In Bond Shipment 13443
113 Inbound Logistics 13053
114 Interstate System 10709
115 Inventory Costs 52282
116 Inventory in Transit 15941
117 Inventory Management 53470
118 Inventory Planning System 9481
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21727
120 JIT (Just In Time) 40686
121 JIT 2 18105
122 Job Production 26208
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8638
124 Kanban Squares 6518
125 Laid-Down Cost 9769
126 Lean Office 5703
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10677
128 Lee's Notation 8240
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13639
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 35864
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8845
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7159
133 Logistics Channel 22420
134 Logistics Costs 26091
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6476
136 Manifest 10094
137 Marks and Numbers 12116
138 Material Planning 34283
139 Materials Management 25887
140 Milk Run 42067
141 Mini Land Bridge 14010
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9036
143 Modal Split 14790
144 Movement of Goods 18937
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30858
146 North West Corner Method 16547
147 Numeric Distribution 13670
148 One Level Distribution Channel 27965
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47609
150 Operational Efficiency 9562
151 Operational Objectives 12999
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17858
153 Operational Sustainability 27256
154 Operations Management 19489
155 Order Cancellation 10254
156 Order Cycle 18038
157 Order Cycle Time 22962
158 Order Fill Rate 33452
159 Order Fulfillment 6192
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9934
 
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