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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 43310
62 Date Code 17729
63 Days of Supply 19459
64 Dead on Arrival 8924
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7075
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7852
67 Detective Control 8688
68 Devanning 13983
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10589
70 Dispatching 23630
71 Distributed Inventory 8165
72 Distribution Channel Management 34047
73 Distribution Metrics 8711
74 Distribution Planning 23897
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14847
76 Double Marginalization 52184
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21986
78 Dual 5262
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20298
80 Echelon Inventory 25857
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37951
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48849
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7402
84 Efficient Frontier 24966
85 Engineer-to-Order 31254
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15944
87 Erlang B Formula 9092
88 ETD 8083
89 Ex Works 7669
90 Exception Rate 13141
91 Exponential smoothing 9609
92 External Growth 9821
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9206
94 Field Services 7580
95 Field Warehouse 9684
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8428
97 Fishbone Diagram 14302
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26515
99 Flow Through Distribution 12040
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7923
101 FOB Destination 12679
102 Forward buying 29714
103 Freight Charge 10095
104 Freight Consolidation 7321
105 Gantt Chart 8112
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11415
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29174
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12423
109 Hub 23047
110 Idle Time 7862
111 Import/Export License 8477
112 In Bond Shipment 13610
113 Inbound Logistics 13211
114 Interstate System 10773
115 Inventory Costs 52749
116 Inventory in Transit 16098
117 Inventory Management 53837
118 Inventory Planning System 9581
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21921
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41375
121 JIT 2 18208
122 Job Production 26629
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8760
124 Kanban Squares 6617
125 Laid-Down Cost 9886
126 Lean Office 5800
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10734
128 Lee's Notation 8352
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13821
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36282
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8953
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7263
133 Logistics Channel 22563
134 Logistics Costs 26278
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6535
136 Manifest 10235
137 Marks and Numbers 12259
138 Material Planning 34574
139 Materials Management 26026
140 Milk Run 42431
141 Mini Land Bridge 14127
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9185
143 Modal Split 14979
144 Movement of Goods 19126
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31066
146 North West Corner Method 16644
147 Numeric Distribution 13846
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28142
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47850
150 Operational Efficiency 9678
151 Operational Objectives 13109
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17929
153 Operational Sustainability 27486
154 Operations Management 19875
155 Order Cancellation 10413
156 Order Cycle 18165
157 Order Cycle Time 23187
158 Order Fill Rate 33629
159 Order Fulfillment 6283
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10041
 
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