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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 43337
62 Date Code 17741
63 Days of Supply 19472
64 Dead on Arrival 8933
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7080
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7865
67 Detective Control 8692
68 Devanning 13992
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10599
70 Dispatching 23650
71 Distributed Inventory 8168
72 Distribution Channel Management 34068
73 Distribution Metrics 8721
74 Distribution Planning 23903
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14862
76 Double Marginalization 52210
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21996
78 Dual 5269
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20302
80 Echelon Inventory 25864
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37961
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48882
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7410
84 Efficient Frontier 24984
85 Engineer-to-Order 31264
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15965
87 Erlang B Formula 9100
88 ETD 8090
89 Ex Works 7674
90 Exception Rate 13155
91 Exponential smoothing 9615
92 External Growth 9831
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9212
94 Field Services 7584
95 Field Warehouse 9693
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8435
97 Fishbone Diagram 14309
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26535
99 Flow Through Distribution 12052
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7927
101 FOB Destination 12687
102 Forward buying 29729
103 Freight Charge 10103
104 Freight Consolidation 7329
105 Gantt Chart 8119
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11424
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29187
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12431
109 Hub 23059
110 Idle Time 7869
111 Import/Export License 8486
112 In Bond Shipment 13617
113 Inbound Logistics 13224
114 Interstate System 10782
115 Inventory Costs 52778
116 Inventory in Transit 16106
117 Inventory Management 53867
118 Inventory Planning System 9587
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21932
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41420
121 JIT 2 18217
122 Job Production 26662
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8769
124 Kanban Squares 6625
125 Laid-Down Cost 9893
126 Lean Office 5810
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10741
128 Lee's Notation 8364
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13833
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36314
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8962
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7276
133 Logistics Channel 22569
134 Logistics Costs 26291
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6542
136 Manifest 10245
137 Marks and Numbers 12264
138 Material Planning 34587
139 Materials Management 26036
140 Milk Run 42461
141 Mini Land Bridge 14138
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9200
143 Modal Split 14992
144 Movement of Goods 19137
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31077
146 North West Corner Method 16652
147 Numeric Distribution 13856
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28153
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47869
150 Operational Efficiency 9687
151 Operational Objectives 13115
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17938
153 Operational Sustainability 27509
154 Operations Management 19901
155 Order Cancellation 10423
156 Order Cycle 18174
157 Order Cycle Time 23198
158 Order Fill Rate 33646
159 Order Fulfillment 6292
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10048
 
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