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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 44237
62 Date Code 18291
63 Days of Supply 19879
64 Dead on Arrival 9362
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7336
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8145
67 Detective Control 8935
68 Devanning 14242
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10998
70 Dispatching 24585
71 Distributed Inventory 8385
72 Distribution Channel Management 34841
73 Distribution Metrics 9163
74 Distribution Planning 24238
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15263
76 Double Marginalization 52814
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22426
78 Dual 5463
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20647
80 Echelon Inventory 26247
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38304
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49824
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7643
84 Efficient Frontier 25550
85 Engineer-to-Order 31811
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16580
87 Erlang B Formula 9377
88 ETD 8354
89 Ex Works 7861
90 Exception Rate 13534
91 Exponential smoothing 9848
92 External Growth 10113
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9545
94 Field Services 7763
95 Field Warehouse 10586
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8814
97 Fishbone Diagram 14641
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27108
99 Flow Through Distribution 12348
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8205
101 FOB Destination 13081
102 Forward buying 30242
103 Freight Charge 10435
104 Freight Consolidation 7558
105 Gantt Chart 8315
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11767
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29630
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12724
109 Hub 23482
110 Idle Time 8097
111 Import/Export License 8750
112 In Bond Shipment 14003
113 Inbound Logistics 13625
114 Interstate System 11036
115 Inventory Costs 53760
116 Inventory in Transit 16574
117 Inventory Management 54922
118 Inventory Planning System 9898
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22343
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42941
121 JIT 2 18477
122 Job Production 27820
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9170
124 Kanban Squares 6861
125 Laid-Down Cost 10237
126 Lean Office 6148
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10876
128 Lee's Notation 8591
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14288
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37377
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9315
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7549
133 Logistics Channel 22955
134 Logistics Costs 26729
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6712
136 Manifest 10571
137 Marks and Numbers 12651
138 Material Planning 35186
139 Materials Management 26413
140 Milk Run 43174
141 Mini Land Bridge 14449
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9602
143 Modal Split 15475
144 Movement of Goods 19527
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31735
146 North West Corner Method 16895
147 Numeric Distribution 14270
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28602
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48530
150 Operational Efficiency 9973
151 Operational Objectives 13389
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18150
153 Operational Sustainability 28105
154 Operations Management 20898
155 Order Cancellation 10868
156 Order Cycle 18483
157 Order Cycle Time 23558
158 Order Fill Rate 34087
159 Order Fulfillment 6497
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10355
 
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