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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 44479
62 Date Code 18500
63 Days of Supply 19993
64 Dead on Arrival 9474
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7407
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8236
67 Detective Control 9027
68 Devanning 14327
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11091
70 Dispatching 24770
71 Distributed Inventory 8457
72 Distribution Channel Management 35096
73 Distribution Metrics 9294
74 Distribution Planning 24358
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15393
76 Double Marginalization 52982
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22540
78 Dual 5511
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20745
80 Echelon Inventory 26396
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38422
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50115
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7720
84 Efficient Frontier 25698
85 Engineer-to-Order 31948
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16760
87 Erlang B Formula 9458
88 ETD 8428
89 Ex Works 7922
90 Exception Rate 13652
91 Exponential smoothing 9925
92 External Growth 10205
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9631
94 Field Services 7815
95 Field Warehouse 10914
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8947
97 Fishbone Diagram 14741
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27292
99 Flow Through Distribution 12452
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8306
101 FOB Destination 13196
102 Forward buying 30390
103 Freight Charge 10510
104 Freight Consolidation 7615
105 Gantt Chart 8368
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11884
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29747
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12814
109 Hub 23596
110 Idle Time 8164
111 Import/Export License 8832
112 In Bond Shipment 14105
113 Inbound Logistics 13726
114 Interstate System 11115
115 Inventory Costs 54036
116 Inventory in Transit 16697
117 Inventory Management 55201
118 Inventory Planning System 9972
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22482
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43324
121 JIT 2 18555
122 Job Production 28177
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9253
124 Kanban Squares 6958
125 Laid-Down Cost 10353
126 Lean Office 6232
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10916
128 Lee's Notation 8647
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14434
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37608
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9419
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7607
133 Logistics Channel 23055
134 Logistics Costs 26860
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6756
136 Manifest 10674
137 Marks and Numbers 12783
138 Material Planning 35339
139 Materials Management 26538
140 Milk Run 43351
141 Mini Land Bridge 14546
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9716
143 Modal Split 15581
144 Movement of Goods 19667
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31906
146 North West Corner Method 16963
147 Numeric Distribution 14378
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28731
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48780
150 Operational Efficiency 10049
151 Operational Objectives 13479
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18206
153 Operational Sustainability 28272
154 Operations Management 21073
155 Order Cancellation 10964
156 Order Cycle 18566
157 Order Cycle Time 23660
158 Order Fill Rate 34214
159 Order Fulfillment 6567
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10459
 
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