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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 43778
62 Date Code 18013
63 Days of Supply 19665
64 Dead on Arrival 9084
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7197
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7984
67 Detective Control 8795
68 Devanning 14110
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10737
70 Dispatching 24102
71 Distributed Inventory 8254
72 Distribution Channel Management 34404
73 Distribution Metrics 8924
74 Distribution Planning 24048
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15035
76 Double Marginalization 52423
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22145
78 Dual 5360
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20450
80 Echelon Inventory 25999
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38112
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49291
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7510
84 Efficient Frontier 25232
85 Engineer-to-Order 31515
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16195
87 Erlang B Formula 9226
88 ETD 8212
89 Ex Works 7749
90 Exception Rate 13317
91 Exponential smoothing 9730
92 External Growth 9942
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9318
94 Field Services 7659
95 Field Warehouse 9842
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8611
97 Fishbone Diagram 14474
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26787
99 Flow Through Distribution 12173
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8047
101 FOB Destination 12878
102 Forward buying 29892
103 Freight Charge 10215
104 Freight Consolidation 7430
105 Gantt Chart 8203
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11582
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29375
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12553
109 Hub 23236
110 Idle Time 7962
111 Import/Export License 8600
112 In Bond Shipment 13761
113 Inbound Logistics 13407
114 Interstate System 10884
115 Inventory Costs 53194
116 Inventory in Transit 16281
117 Inventory Management 54329
118 Inventory Planning System 9685
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22121
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42060
121 JIT 2 18322
122 Job Production 27166
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8924
124 Kanban Squares 6739
125 Laid-Down Cost 10024
126 Lean Office 5925
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10793
128 Lee's Notation 8465
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14034
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36789
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9105
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7357
133 Logistics Channel 22739
134 Logistics Costs 26467
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6613
136 Manifest 10405
137 Marks and Numbers 12435
138 Material Planning 34885
139 Materials Management 26211
140 Milk Run 42825
141 Mini Land Bridge 14280
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9378
143 Modal Split 15235
144 Movement of Goods 19298
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31335
146 North West Corner Method 16760
147 Numeric Distribution 14020
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28354
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48151
150 Operational Efficiency 9830
151 Operational Objectives 13234
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18029
153 Operational Sustainability 27702
154 Operations Management 20338
155 Order Cancellation 10658
156 Order Cycle 18313
157 Order Cycle Time 23377
158 Order Fill Rate 33834
159 Order Fulfillment 6381
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10170
 
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