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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 43651
62 Date Code 17906
63 Days of Supply 19596
64 Dead on Arrival 9032
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7150
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7936
67 Detective Control 8754
68 Devanning 14071
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10683
70 Dispatching 23943
71 Distributed Inventory 8218
72 Distribution Channel Management 34288
73 Distribution Metrics 8857
74 Distribution Planning 23998
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14973
76 Double Marginalization 52358
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22091
78 Dual 5331
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20395
80 Echelon Inventory 25947
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38060
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49155
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7472
84 Efficient Frontier 25148
85 Engineer-to-Order 31425
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16107
87 Erlang B Formula 9174
88 ETD 8163
89 Ex Works 7726
90 Exception Rate 13250
91 Exponential smoothing 9685
92 External Growth 9889
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9275
94 Field Services 7637
95 Field Warehouse 9760
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8552
97 Fishbone Diagram 14421
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26696
99 Flow Through Distribution 12134
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8007
101 FOB Destination 12811
102 Forward buying 29840
103 Freight Charge 10171
104 Freight Consolidation 7393
105 Gantt Chart 8172
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11531
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29306
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12509
109 Hub 23171
110 Idle Time 7928
111 Import/Export License 8561
112 In Bond Shipment 13716
113 Inbound Logistics 13336
114 Interstate System 10841
115 Inventory Costs 53056
116 Inventory in Transit 16218
117 Inventory Management 54152
118 Inventory Planning System 9653
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22066
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41824
121 JIT 2 18286
122 Job Production 26972
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8870
124 Kanban Squares 6702
125 Laid-Down Cost 9965
126 Lean Office 5881
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10774
128 Lee's Notation 8427
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13959
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36592
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9039
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7330
133 Logistics Channel 22671
134 Logistics Costs 26410
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6589
136 Manifest 10352
137 Marks and Numbers 12357
138 Material Planning 34773
139 Materials Management 26137
140 Milk Run 42712
141 Mini Land Bridge 14231
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9316
143 Modal Split 15140
144 Movement of Goods 19231
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31248
146 North West Corner Method 16719
147 Numeric Distribution 13963
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28279
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48047
150 Operational Efficiency 9778
151 Operational Objectives 13189
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17994
153 Operational Sustainability 27630
154 Operations Management 20185
155 Order Cancellation 10574
156 Order Cycle 18256
157 Order Cycle Time 23322
158 Order Fill Rate 33763
159 Order Fulfillment 6351
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10111
 
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