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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 44100
62 Date Code 18193
63 Days of Supply 19806
64 Dead on Arrival 9239
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7295
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8086
67 Detective Control 8892
68 Devanning 14196
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10869
70 Dispatching 24460
71 Distributed Inventory 8340
72 Distribution Channel Management 34681
73 Distribution Metrics 9090
74 Distribution Planning 24174
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15192
76 Double Marginalization 52636
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22293
78 Dual 5431
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20585
80 Echelon Inventory 26177
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38240
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49658
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7600
84 Efficient Frontier 25439
85 Engineer-to-Order 31711
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16419
87 Erlang B Formula 9329
88 ETD 8314
89 Ex Works 7823
90 Exception Rate 13467
91 Exponential smoothing 9815
92 External Growth 10057
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9432
94 Field Services 7731
95 Field Warehouse 10393
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8740
97 Fishbone Diagram 14586
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26992
99 Flow Through Distribution 12294
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8162
101 FOB Destination 13005
102 Forward buying 30069
103 Freight Charge 10330
104 Freight Consolidation 7513
105 Gantt Chart 8278
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11714
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29559
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12663
109 Hub 23396
110 Idle Time 8056
111 Import/Export License 8699
112 In Bond Shipment 13927
113 Inbound Logistics 13561
114 Interstate System 10988
115 Inventory Costs 53562
116 Inventory in Transit 16447
117 Inventory Management 54685
118 Inventory Planning System 9790
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22270
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42612
121 JIT 2 18420
122 Job Production 27591
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9062
124 Kanban Squares 6816
125 Laid-Down Cost 10155
126 Lean Office 6046
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10846
128 Lee's Notation 8553
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14202
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37179
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9245
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7446
133 Logistics Channel 22878
134 Logistics Costs 26641
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6679
136 Manifest 10515
137 Marks and Numbers 12585
138 Material Planning 35066
139 Materials Management 26346
140 Milk Run 43074
141 Mini Land Bridge 14404
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9532
143 Modal Split 15396
144 Movement of Goods 19456
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31593
146 North West Corner Method 16849
147 Numeric Distribution 14202
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28524
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48395
150 Operational Efficiency 9928
151 Operational Objectives 13338
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18112
153 Operational Sustainability 27926
154 Operations Management 20653
155 Order Cancellation 10805
156 Order Cycle 18431
157 Order Cycle Time 23492
158 Order Fill Rate 33999
159 Order Fulfillment 6464
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10297
 
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