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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 43686
62 Date Code 17936
63 Days of Supply 19615
64 Dead on Arrival 9048
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7163
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7956
67 Detective Control 8766
68 Devanning 14079
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10698
70 Dispatching 23987
71 Distributed Inventory 8226
72 Distribution Channel Management 34338
73 Distribution Metrics 8872
74 Distribution Planning 24012
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14991
76 Double Marginalization 52376
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22109
78 Dual 5340
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20415
80 Echelon Inventory 25960
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38067
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49191
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7486
84 Efficient Frontier 25179
85 Engineer-to-Order 31450
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16124
87 Erlang B Formula 9189
88 ETD 8176
89 Ex Works 7731
90 Exception Rate 13269
91 Exponential smoothing 9695
92 External Growth 9909
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9287
94 Field Services 7643
95 Field Warehouse 9772
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8566
97 Fishbone Diagram 14436
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26724
99 Flow Through Distribution 12145
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8019
101 FOB Destination 12831
102 Forward buying 29851
103 Freight Charge 10186
104 Freight Consolidation 7405
105 Gantt Chart 8184
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11550
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29330
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12523
109 Hub 23187
110 Idle Time 7937
111 Import/Export License 8575
112 In Bond Shipment 13731
113 Inbound Logistics 13358
114 Interstate System 10852
115 Inventory Costs 53098
116 Inventory in Transit 16234
117 Inventory Management 54201
118 Inventory Planning System 9663
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22079
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41891
121 JIT 2 18300
122 Job Production 27024
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8888
124 Kanban Squares 6713
125 Laid-Down Cost 9983
126 Lean Office 5894
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10783
128 Lee's Notation 8438
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13981
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36639
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9059
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7339
133 Logistics Channel 22694
134 Logistics Costs 26427
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6594
136 Manifest 10367
137 Marks and Numbers 12377
138 Material Planning 34806
139 Materials Management 26157
140 Milk Run 42746
141 Mini Land Bridge 14248
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9334
143 Modal Split 15172
144 Movement of Goods 19248
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31278
146 North West Corner Method 16731
147 Numeric Distribution 13980
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28300
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48073
150 Operational Efficiency 9792
151 Operational Objectives 13197
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18004
153 Operational Sustainability 27651
154 Operations Management 20222
155 Order Cancellation 10598
156 Order Cycle 18271
157 Order Cycle Time 23336
158 Order Fill Rate 33784
159 Order Fulfillment 6361
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10124
 
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