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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 44392
62 Date Code 18413
63 Days of Supply 19960
64 Dead on Arrival 9440
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7384
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8206
67 Detective Control 8997
68 Devanning 14306
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11062
70 Dispatching 24711
71 Distributed Inventory 8436
72 Distribution Channel Management 35030
73 Distribution Metrics 9257
74 Distribution Planning 24320
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15355
76 Double Marginalization 52932
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22504
78 Dual 5495
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20720
80 Echelon Inventory 26334
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38380
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50029
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7694
84 Efficient Frontier 25644
85 Engineer-to-Order 31904
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16693
87 Erlang B Formula 9428
88 ETD 8407
89 Ex Works 7897
90 Exception Rate 13616
91 Exponential smoothing 9904
92 External Growth 10178
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9605
94 Field Services 7798
95 Field Warehouse 10813
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8903
97 Fishbone Diagram 14707
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27238
99 Flow Through Distribution 12418
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8276
101 FOB Destination 13159
102 Forward buying 30348
103 Freight Charge 10492
104 Freight Consolidation 7601
105 Gantt Chart 8354
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11843
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29710
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12788
109 Hub 23570
110 Idle Time 8148
111 Import/Export License 8812
112 In Bond Shipment 14082
113 Inbound Logistics 13695
114 Interstate System 11097
115 Inventory Costs 53970
116 Inventory in Transit 16660
117 Inventory Management 55111
118 Inventory Planning System 9950
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22433
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43209
121 JIT 2 18535
122 Job Production 28053
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9228
124 Kanban Squares 6931
125 Laid-Down Cost 10322
126 Lean Office 6209
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10904
128 Lee's Notation 8633
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14389
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37527
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9385
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7591
133 Logistics Channel 23027
134 Logistics Costs 26820
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6740
136 Manifest 10650
137 Marks and Numbers 12740
138 Material Planning 35294
139 Materials Management 26501
140 Milk Run 43299
141 Mini Land Bridge 14518
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9687
143 Modal Split 15553
144 Movement of Goods 19608
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31859
146 North West Corner Method 16943
147 Numeric Distribution 14350
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28690
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48700
150 Operational Efficiency 10026
151 Operational Objectives 13457
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18194
153 Operational Sustainability 28214
154 Operations Management 21019
155 Order Cancellation 10932
156 Order Cycle 18546
157 Order Cycle Time 23632
158 Order Fill Rate 34171
159 Order Fulfillment 6550
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10423
 
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