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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 43553
62 Date Code 17854
63 Days of Supply 19558
64 Dead on Arrival 9001
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7126
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7910
67 Detective Control 8734
68 Devanning 14042
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10663
70 Dispatching 23835
71 Distributed Inventory 8204
72 Distribution Channel Management 34231
73 Distribution Metrics 8810
74 Distribution Planning 23969
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14943
76 Double Marginalization 52313
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22063
78 Dual 5312
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20369
80 Echelon Inventory 25918
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38024
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49078
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7452
84 Efficient Frontier 25093
85 Engineer-to-Order 31375
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16056
87 Erlang B Formula 9153
88 ETD 8135
89 Ex Works 7710
90 Exception Rate 13217
91 Exponential smoothing 9659
92 External Growth 9868
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9256
94 Field Services 7617
95 Field Warehouse 9739
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8523
97 Fishbone Diagram 14389
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26640
99 Flow Through Distribution 12103
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7980
101 FOB Destination 12769
102 Forward buying 29808
103 Freight Charge 10147
104 Freight Consolidation 7374
105 Gantt Chart 8154
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11504
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29266
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12482
109 Hub 23134
110 Idle Time 7908
111 Import/Export License 8536
112 In Bond Shipment 13692
113 Inbound Logistics 13296
114 Interstate System 10819
115 Inventory Costs 52963
116 Inventory in Transit 16179
117 Inventory Management 54053
118 Inventory Planning System 9629
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22024
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41692
121 JIT 2 18267
122 Job Production 26884
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8842
124 Kanban Squares 6681
125 Laid-Down Cost 9943
126 Lean Office 5863
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10766
128 Lee's Notation 8407
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13920
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36515
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9009
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7315
133 Logistics Channel 22638
134 Logistics Costs 26370
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6576
136 Manifest 10317
137 Marks and Numbers 12323
138 Material Planning 34719
139 Materials Management 26099
140 Milk Run 42648
141 Mini Land Bridge 14210
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9284
143 Modal Split 15090
144 Movement of Goods 19198
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31194
146 North West Corner Method 16691
147 Numeric Distribution 13932
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28238
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47996
150 Operational Efficiency 9754
151 Operational Objectives 13166
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17978
153 Operational Sustainability 27595
154 Operations Management 20102
155 Order Cancellation 10521
156 Order Cycle 18233
157 Order Cycle Time 23292
158 Order Fill Rate 33730
159 Order Fulfillment 6335
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10088
 
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