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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 43993
62 Date Code 18121
63 Days of Supply 19749
64 Dead on Arrival 9169
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7258
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8050
67 Detective Control 8861
68 Devanning 14164
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10811
70 Dispatching 24343
71 Distributed Inventory 8302
72 Distribution Channel Management 34567
73 Distribution Metrics 9026
74 Distribution Planning 24128
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15131
76 Double Marginalization 52548
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22220
78 Dual 5401
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20531
80 Echelon Inventory 26107
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38193
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49504
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7564
84 Efficient Frontier 25365
85 Engineer-to-Order 31633
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16318
87 Erlang B Formula 9297
88 ETD 8276
89 Ex Works 7792
90 Exception Rate 13407
91 Exponential smoothing 9778
92 External Growth 10012
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9374
94 Field Services 7706
95 Field Warehouse 10196
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8695
97 Fishbone Diagram 14546
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26907
99 Flow Through Distribution 12251
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8113
101 FOB Destination 12960
102 Forward buying 29990
103 Freight Charge 10270
104 Freight Consolidation 7483
105 Gantt Chart 8248
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11662
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29483
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12623
109 Hub 23330
110 Idle Time 8012
111 Import/Export License 8660
112 In Bond Shipment 13860
113 Inbound Logistics 13501
114 Interstate System 10948
115 Inventory Costs 53407
116 Inventory in Transit 16363
117 Inventory Management 54542
118 Inventory Planning System 9735
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22220
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42416
121 JIT 2 18385
122 Job Production 27414
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8994
124 Kanban Squares 6785
125 Laid-Down Cost 10098
126 Lean Office 5976
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10828
128 Lee's Notation 8518
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14136
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37046
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9192
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7398
133 Logistics Channel 22822
134 Logistics Costs 26565
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6645
136 Manifest 10478
137 Marks and Numbers 12545
138 Material Planning 34996
139 Materials Management 26294
140 Milk Run 42984
141 Mini Land Bridge 14358
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9476
143 Modal Split 15341
144 Movement of Goods 19384
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31475
146 North West Corner Method 16813
147 Numeric Distribution 14137
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28458
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48302
150 Operational Efficiency 9894
151 Operational Objectives 13291
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18083
153 Operational Sustainability 27827
154 Operations Management 20540
155 Order Cancellation 10749
156 Order Cycle 18379
157 Order Cycle Time 23439
158 Order Fill Rate 33938
159 Order Fulfillment 6431
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10244
 
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