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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 44216
62 Date Code 18274
63 Days of Supply 19867
64 Dead on Arrival 9352
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7331
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8138
67 Detective Control 8930
68 Devanning 14236
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10989
70 Dispatching 24570
71 Distributed Inventory 8377
72 Distribution Channel Management 34818
73 Distribution Metrics 9148
74 Distribution Planning 24230
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15250
76 Double Marginalization 52797
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22412
78 Dual 5459
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20640
80 Echelon Inventory 26242
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38297
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49799
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7637
84 Efficient Frontier 25530
85 Engineer-to-Order 31795
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16562
87 Erlang B Formula 9368
88 ETD 8348
89 Ex Works 7853
90 Exception Rate 13522
91 Exponential smoothing 9846
92 External Growth 10106
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9539
94 Field Services 7759
95 Field Warehouse 10559
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8801
97 Fishbone Diagram 14634
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27087
99 Flow Through Distribution 12339
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8201
101 FOB Destination 13064
102 Forward buying 30222
103 Freight Charge 10431
104 Freight Consolidation 7550
105 Gantt Chart 8310
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11758
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29621
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12717
109 Hub 23469
110 Idle Time 8087
111 Import/Export License 8743
112 In Bond Shipment 13995
113 Inbound Logistics 13619
114 Interstate System 11029
115 Inventory Costs 53734
116 Inventory in Transit 16567
117 Inventory Management 54903
118 Inventory Planning System 9893
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22335
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42870
121 JIT 2 18465
122 Job Production 27789
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9165
124 Kanban Squares 6857
125 Laid-Down Cost 10223
126 Lean Office 6143
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10870
128 Lee's Notation 8584
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14276
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37353
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9306
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7546
133 Logistics Channel 22948
134 Logistics Costs 26719
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6705
136 Manifest 10565
137 Marks and Numbers 12639
138 Material Planning 35170
139 Materials Management 26405
140 Milk Run 43159
141 Mini Land Bridge 14443
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9590
143 Modal Split 15461
144 Movement of Goods 19517
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31716
146 North West Corner Method 16887
147 Numeric Distribution 14256
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28590
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48510
150 Operational Efficiency 9969
151 Operational Objectives 13384
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18142
153 Operational Sustainability 28082
154 Operations Management 20873
155 Order Cancellation 10860
156 Order Cycle 18472
157 Order Cycle Time 23549
158 Order Fill Rate 34070
159 Order Fulfillment 6493
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10344
 
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