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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 44113
62 Date Code 18202
63 Days of Supply 19813
64 Dead on Arrival 9259
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7300
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8090
67 Detective Control 8899
68 Devanning 14201
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10888
70 Dispatching 24470
71 Distributed Inventory 8343
72 Distribution Channel Management 34692
73 Distribution Metrics 9095
74 Distribution Planning 24179
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15197
76 Double Marginalization 52656
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22313
78 Dual 5434
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20589
80 Echelon Inventory 26183
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38245
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49676
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7605
84 Efficient Frontier 25443
85 Engineer-to-Order 31716
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16440
87 Erlang B Formula 9334
88 ETD 8318
89 Ex Works 7827
90 Exception Rate 13474
91 Exponential smoothing 9821
92 External Growth 10061
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9452
94 Field Services 7737
95 Field Warehouse 10404
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8743
97 Fishbone Diagram 14593
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27001
99 Flow Through Distribution 12296
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8165
101 FOB Destination 13007
102 Forward buying 30092
103 Freight Charge 10350
104 Freight Consolidation 7517
105 Gantt Chart 8279
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11719
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29563
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12668
109 Hub 23400
110 Idle Time 8058
111 Import/Export License 8704
112 In Bond Shipment 13932
113 Inbound Logistics 13567
114 Interstate System 10990
115 Inventory Costs 53569
116 Inventory in Transit 16466
117 Inventory Management 54707
118 Inventory Planning System 9808
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22276
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42631
121 JIT 2 18425
122 Job Production 27611
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9081
124 Kanban Squares 6819
125 Laid-Down Cost 10164
126 Lean Office 6066
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10846
128 Lee's Notation 8557
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14206
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37200
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9250
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7466
133 Logistics Channel 22881
134 Logistics Costs 26649
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6680
136 Manifest 10518
137 Marks and Numbers 12589
138 Material Planning 35076
139 Materials Management 26354
140 Milk Run 43081
141 Mini Land Bridge 14406
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9540
143 Modal Split 15400
144 Movement of Goods 19462
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31606
146 North West Corner Method 16851
147 Numeric Distribution 14209
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28532
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48412
150 Operational Efficiency 9933
151 Operational Objectives 13340
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18114
153 Operational Sustainability 27946
154 Operations Management 20678
155 Order Cancellation 10809
156 Order Cycle 18437
157 Order Cycle Time 23499
158 Order Fill Rate 34009
159 Order Fulfillment 6468
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10302
 
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