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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 44261
62 Date Code 18308
63 Days of Supply 19894
64 Dead on Arrival 9378
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7344
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8154
67 Detective Control 8944
68 Devanning 14251
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11006
70 Dispatching 24604
71 Distributed Inventory 8394
72 Distribution Channel Management 34875
73 Distribution Metrics 9183
74 Distribution Planning 24250
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15280
76 Double Marginalization 52833
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22439
78 Dual 5470
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20663
80 Echelon Inventory 26255
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38311
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49862
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7651
84 Efficient Frontier 25563
85 Engineer-to-Order 31825
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16602
87 Erlang B Formula 9385
88 ETD 8362
89 Ex Works 7864
90 Exception Rate 13544
91 Exponential smoothing 9857
92 External Growth 10122
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9557
94 Field Services 7768
95 Field Warehouse 10622
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8833
97 Fishbone Diagram 14654
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27131
99 Flow Through Distribution 12358
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8217
101 FOB Destination 13096
102 Forward buying 30254
103 Freight Charge 10444
104 Freight Consolidation 7567
105 Gantt Chart 8323
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11780
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29648
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12735
109 Hub 23498
110 Idle Time 8103
111 Import/Export License 8762
112 In Bond Shipment 14019
113 Inbound Logistics 13636
114 Interstate System 11046
115 Inventory Costs 53795
116 Inventory in Transit 16581
117 Inventory Management 54951
118 Inventory Planning System 9903
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22354
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43004
121 JIT 2 18487
122 Job Production 27854
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9177
124 Kanban Squares 6870
125 Laid-Down Cost 10252
126 Lean Office 6156
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10882
128 Lee's Notation 8603
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14309
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37399
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9328
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7558
133 Logistics Channel 22967
134 Logistics Costs 26739
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6714
136 Manifest 10580
137 Marks and Numbers 12669
138 Material Planning 35208
139 Materials Management 26428
140 Milk Run 43192
141 Mini Land Bridge 14459
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9614
143 Modal Split 15489
144 Movement of Goods 19543
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31759
146 North West Corner Method 16901
147 Numeric Distribution 14282
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28613
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48557
150 Operational Efficiency 9981
151 Operational Objectives 13401
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18158
153 Operational Sustainability 28130
154 Operations Management 20915
155 Order Cancellation 10879
156 Order Cycle 18494
157 Order Cycle Time 23566
158 Order Fill Rate 34099
159 Order Fulfillment 6504
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10369
 
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