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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 43239
62 Date Code 17698
63 Days of Supply 19429
64 Dead on Arrival 8897
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7059
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7827
67 Detective Control 8675
68 Devanning 13960
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10568
70 Dispatching 23572
71 Distributed Inventory 8149
72 Distribution Channel Management 33987
73 Distribution Metrics 8677
74 Distribution Planning 23867
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14816
76 Double Marginalization 52138
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21965
78 Dual 5238
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20278
80 Echelon Inventory 25834
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37924
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48783
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7387
84 Efficient Frontier 24922
85 Engineer-to-Order 31215
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15898
87 Erlang B Formula 9062
88 ETD 8066
89 Ex Works 7659
90 Exception Rate 13108
91 Exponential smoothing 9591
92 External Growth 9805
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9188
94 Field Services 7571
95 Field Warehouse 9662
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8396
97 Fishbone Diagram 14282
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26485
99 Flow Through Distribution 12018
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7899
101 FOB Destination 12654
102 Forward buying 29681
103 Freight Charge 10079
104 Freight Consolidation 7299
105 Gantt Chart 8097
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11380
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29137
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12407
109 Hub 23013
110 Idle Time 7848
111 Import/Export License 8459
112 In Bond Shipment 13584
113 Inbound Logistics 13183
114 Interstate System 10764
115 Inventory Costs 52680
116 Inventory in Transit 16062
117 Inventory Management 53775
118 Inventory Planning System 9557
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21877
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41266
121 JIT 2 18192
122 Job Production 26546
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8737
124 Kanban Squares 6598
125 Laid-Down Cost 9872
126 Lean Office 5783
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10720
128 Lee's Notation 8335
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13786
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36216
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8938
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7235
133 Logistics Channel 22533
134 Logistics Costs 26253
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6524
136 Manifest 10210
137 Marks and Numbers 12243
138 Material Planning 34525
139 Materials Management 26002
140 Milk Run 42376
141 Mini Land Bridge 14106
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9156
143 Modal Split 14942
144 Movement of Goods 19098
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31033
146 North West Corner Method 16627
147 Numeric Distribution 13818
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28115
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47811
150 Operational Efficiency 9656
151 Operational Objectives 13090
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17921
153 Operational Sustainability 27444
154 Operations Management 19812
155 Order Cancellation 10385
156 Order Cycle 18147
157 Order Cycle Time 23159
158 Order Fill Rate 33597
159 Order Fulfillment 6269
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10025
 
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