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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 44471
62 Date Code 18499
63 Days of Supply 19991
64 Dead on Arrival 9473
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7407
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8232
67 Detective Control 9025
68 Devanning 14327
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11091
70 Dispatching 24766
71 Distributed Inventory 8456
72 Distribution Channel Management 35093
73 Distribution Metrics 9292
74 Distribution Planning 24356
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15392
76 Double Marginalization 52982
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22538
78 Dual 5511
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20745
80 Echelon Inventory 26390
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38419
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50111
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7720
84 Efficient Frontier 25693
85 Engineer-to-Order 31945
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16758
87 Erlang B Formula 9458
88 ETD 8428
89 Ex Works 7920
90 Exception Rate 13652
91 Exponential smoothing 9923
92 External Growth 10205
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9630
94 Field Services 7814
95 Field Warehouse 10912
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8944
97 Fishbone Diagram 14739
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27288
99 Flow Through Distribution 12450
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8305
101 FOB Destination 13193
102 Forward buying 30388
103 Freight Charge 10510
104 Freight Consolidation 7614
105 Gantt Chart 8368
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11882
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29745
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12813
109 Hub 23593
110 Idle Time 8164
111 Import/Export License 8832
112 In Bond Shipment 14103
113 Inbound Logistics 13725
114 Interstate System 11115
115 Inventory Costs 54031
116 Inventory in Transit 16696
117 Inventory Management 55196
118 Inventory Planning System 9969
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22478
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43312
121 JIT 2 18554
122 Job Production 28168
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9252
124 Kanban Squares 6955
125 Laid-Down Cost 10350
126 Lean Office 6231
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10916
128 Lee's Notation 8647
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14430
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37601
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9417
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7607
133 Logistics Channel 23053
134 Logistics Costs 26859
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6756
136 Manifest 10674
137 Marks and Numbers 12783
138 Material Planning 35337
139 Materials Management 26537
140 Milk Run 43345
141 Mini Land Bridge 14544
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9713
143 Modal Split 15579
144 Movement of Goods 19665
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31904
146 North West Corner Method 16962
147 Numeric Distribution 14374
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28730
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48776
150 Operational Efficiency 10049
151 Operational Objectives 13479
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18206
153 Operational Sustainability 28268
154 Operations Management 21070
155 Order Cancellation 10961
156 Order Cycle 18566
157 Order Cycle Time 23659
158 Order Fill Rate 34207
159 Order Fulfillment 6567
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10458
 
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