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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 43034
62 Date Code 17615
63 Days of Supply 19354
64 Dead on Arrival 8834
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7035
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7788
67 Detective Control 8647
68 Devanning 13929
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10504
70 Dispatching 23439
71 Distributed Inventory 8121
72 Distribution Channel Management 33835
73 Distribution Metrics 8602
74 Distribution Planning 23813
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14747
76 Double Marginalization 52016
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21917
78 Dual 5205
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20245
80 Echelon Inventory 25789
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37860
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48595
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7353
84 Efficient Frontier 24831
85 Engineer-to-Order 31126
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15796
87 Erlang B Formula 9012
88 ETD 8030
89 Ex Works 7633
90 Exception Rate 13040
91 Exponential smoothing 9549
92 External Growth 9758
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9154
94 Field Services 7544
95 Field Warehouse 9614
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8331
97 Fishbone Diagram 14227
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26401
99 Flow Through Distribution 11972
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7852
101 FOB Destination 12590
102 Forward buying 29614
103 Freight Charge 10042
104 Freight Consolidation 7252
105 Gantt Chart 8067
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11326
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29010
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12374
109 Hub 22942
110 Idle Time 7805
111 Import/Export License 8407
112 In Bond Shipment 13508
113 Inbound Logistics 13127
114 Interstate System 10742
115 Inventory Costs 52465
116 Inventory in Transit 16004
117 Inventory Management 53615
118 Inventory Planning System 9522
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21793
120 JIT (Just In Time) 40960
121 JIT 2 18155
122 Job Production 26358
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8684
124 Kanban Squares 6554
125 Laid-Down Cost 9831
126 Lean Office 5748
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10700
128 Lee's Notation 8288
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13703
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36032
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8897
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7199
133 Logistics Channel 22476
134 Logistics Costs 26179
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6503
136 Manifest 10159
137 Marks and Numbers 12190
138 Material Planning 34418
139 Materials Management 25945
140 Milk Run 42225
141 Mini Land Bridge 14058
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9097
143 Modal Split 14864
144 Movement of Goods 19006
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30943
146 North West Corner Method 16590
147 Numeric Distribution 13739
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28040
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47706
150 Operational Efficiency 9608
151 Operational Objectives 13042
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17890
153 Operational Sustainability 27361
154 Operations Management 19654
155 Order Cancellation 10319
156 Order Cycle 18100
157 Order Cycle Time 23049
158 Order Fill Rate 33526
159 Order Fulfillment 6235
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9985
 
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