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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 44241
62 Date Code 18296
63 Days of Supply 19881
64 Dead on Arrival 9363
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7337
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8146
67 Detective Control 8937
68 Devanning 14243
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10998
70 Dispatching 24589
71 Distributed Inventory 8385
72 Distribution Channel Management 34847
73 Distribution Metrics 9166
74 Distribution Planning 24238
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15267
76 Double Marginalization 52816
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22427
78 Dual 5464
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20649
80 Echelon Inventory 26248
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38306
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49830
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7643
84 Efficient Frontier 25550
85 Engineer-to-Order 31813
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16587
87 Erlang B Formula 9379
88 ETD 8357
89 Ex Works 7861
90 Exception Rate 13535
91 Exponential smoothing 9850
92 External Growth 10114
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9545
94 Field Services 7765
95 Field Warehouse 10595
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8817
97 Fishbone Diagram 14646
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27112
99 Flow Through Distribution 12351
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8208
101 FOB Destination 13083
102 Forward buying 30243
103 Freight Charge 10435
104 Freight Consolidation 7558
105 Gantt Chart 8318
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11769
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29634
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12726
109 Hub 23485
110 Idle Time 8098
111 Import/Export License 8753
112 In Bond Shipment 14008
113 Inbound Logistics 13625
114 Interstate System 11038
115 Inventory Costs 53767
116 Inventory in Transit 16574
117 Inventory Management 54929
118 Inventory Planning System 9898
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22345
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42956
121 JIT 2 18478
122 Job Production 27827
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9171
124 Kanban Squares 6862
125 Laid-Down Cost 10240
126 Lean Office 6150
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10876
128 Lee's Notation 8591
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14291
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37379
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9318
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7551
133 Logistics Channel 22955
134 Logistics Costs 26731
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6712
136 Manifest 10573
137 Marks and Numbers 12656
138 Material Planning 35188
139 Materials Management 26417
140 Milk Run 43176
141 Mini Land Bridge 14451
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9602
143 Modal Split 15478
144 Movement of Goods 19528
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31740
146 North West Corner Method 16895
147 Numeric Distribution 14271
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28606
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48533
150 Operational Efficiency 9973
151 Operational Objectives 13392
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18152
153 Operational Sustainability 28109
154 Operations Management 20902
155 Order Cancellation 10869
156 Order Cycle 18484
157 Order Cycle Time 23558
158 Order Fill Rate 34087
159 Order Fulfillment 6498
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10356
 
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