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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 44211
62 Date Code 18269
63 Days of Supply 19863
64 Dead on Arrival 9348
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7331
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8134
67 Detective Control 8929
68 Devanning 14232
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10986
70 Dispatching 24563
71 Distributed Inventory 8376
72 Distribution Channel Management 34808
73 Distribution Metrics 9146
74 Distribution Planning 24228
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15246
76 Double Marginalization 52791
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22409
78 Dual 5459
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20639
80 Echelon Inventory 26240
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38296
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49789
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7636
84 Efficient Frontier 25524
85 Engineer-to-Order 31789
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16560
87 Erlang B Formula 9367
88 ETD 8347
89 Ex Works 7851
90 Exception Rate 13518
91 Exponential smoothing 9845
92 External Growth 10099
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9537
94 Field Services 7757
95 Field Warehouse 10549
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8798
97 Fishbone Diagram 14630
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27079
99 Flow Through Distribution 12336
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8199
101 FOB Destination 13062
102 Forward buying 30211
103 Freight Charge 10429
104 Freight Consolidation 7548
105 Gantt Chart 8307
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11756
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29615
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12713
109 Hub 23465
110 Idle Time 8087
111 Import/Export License 8742
112 In Bond Shipment 13992
113 Inbound Logistics 13616
114 Interstate System 11029
115 Inventory Costs 53729
116 Inventory in Transit 16563
117 Inventory Management 54890
118 Inventory Planning System 9891
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22331
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42849
121 JIT 2 18464
122 Job Production 27773
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9164
124 Kanban Squares 6857
125 Laid-Down Cost 10218
126 Lean Office 6143
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10870
128 Lee's Notation 8583
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14270
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37343
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9302
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7546
133 Logistics Channel 22944
134 Logistics Costs 26713
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6704
136 Manifest 10563
137 Marks and Numbers 12636
138 Material Planning 35159
139 Materials Management 26400
140 Milk Run 43152
141 Mini Land Bridge 14442
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9589
143 Modal Split 15457
144 Movement of Goods 19513
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31706
146 North West Corner Method 16886
147 Numeric Distribution 14253
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28586
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48504
150 Operational Efficiency 9965
151 Operational Objectives 13382
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18139
153 Operational Sustainability 28076
154 Operations Management 20861
155 Order Cancellation 10858
156 Order Cycle 18470
157 Order Cycle Time 23548
158 Order Fill Rate 34065
159 Order Fulfillment 6491
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10341
 
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