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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 43999
62 Date Code 18132
63 Days of Supply 19755
64 Dead on Arrival 9178
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7261
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8054
67 Detective Control 8863
68 Devanning 14165
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10814
70 Dispatching 24354
71 Distributed Inventory 8305
72 Distribution Channel Management 34583
73 Distribution Metrics 9030
74 Distribution Planning 24132
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15143
76 Double Marginalization 52556
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22226
78 Dual 5404
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20536
80 Echelon Inventory 26111
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38196
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49514
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7567
84 Efficient Frontier 25369
85 Engineer-to-Order 31640
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16327
87 Erlang B Formula 9301
88 ETD 8280
89 Ex Works 7799
90 Exception Rate 13415
91 Exponential smoothing 9781
92 External Growth 10014
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9376
94 Field Services 7708
95 Field Warehouse 10217
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8700
97 Fishbone Diagram 14550
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26917
99 Flow Through Distribution 12256
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8116
101 FOB Destination 12965
102 Forward buying 29999
103 Freight Charge 10273
104 Freight Consolidation 7486
105 Gantt Chart 8250
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11666
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29492
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12624
109 Hub 23341
110 Idle Time 8017
111 Import/Export License 8662
112 In Bond Shipment 13868
113 Inbound Logistics 13507
114 Interstate System 10951
115 Inventory Costs 53419
116 Inventory in Transit 16369
117 Inventory Management 54554
118 Inventory Planning System 9739
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22224
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42443
121 JIT 2 18387
122 Job Production 27427
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9000
124 Kanban Squares 6791
125 Laid-Down Cost 10104
126 Lean Office 5980
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10830
128 Lee's Notation 8524
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14145
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37058
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9199
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7401
133 Logistics Channel 22827
134 Logistics Costs 26573
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6647
136 Manifest 10482
137 Marks and Numbers 12550
138 Material Planning 35003
139 Materials Management 26297
140 Milk Run 42995
141 Mini Land Bridge 14363
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9482
143 Modal Split 15348
144 Movement of Goods 19389
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31490
146 North West Corner Method 16819
147 Numeric Distribution 14144
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28464
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48313
150 Operational Efficiency 9895
151 Operational Objectives 13294
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18088
153 Operational Sustainability 27839
154 Operations Management 20556
155 Order Cancellation 10755
156 Order Cycle 18384
157 Order Cycle Time 23445
158 Order Fill Rate 33942
159 Order Fulfillment 6435
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10254
 
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