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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 41519
62 Date Code 16855
63 Days of Supply 18857
64 Dead on Arrival 8324
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 6747
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7376
67 Detective Control 8339
68 Devanning 13497
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10007
70 Dispatching 21968
71 Distributed Inventory 7807
72 Distribution Channel Management 32560
73 Distribution Metrics 7996
74 Distribution Planning 23311
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14190
76 Double Marginalization 51153
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21403
78 Dual 4872
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 19908
80 Echelon Inventory 25389
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37108
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 46986
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 6968
84 Efficient Frontier 24074
85 Engineer-to-Order 30348
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15043
87 Erlang B Formula 8579
88 ETD 7671
89 Ex Works 7330
90 Exception Rate 12458
91 Exponential smoothing 9188
92 External Growth 9365
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 8784
94 Field Services 7290
95 Field Warehouse 9276
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 7702
97 Fishbone Diagram 13764
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 25583
99 Flow Through Distribution 11518
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7456
101 FOB Destination 12071
102 Forward buying 28957
103 Freight Charge 9639
104 Freight Consolidation 6891
105 Gantt Chart 7753
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 10821
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 28101
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 11975
109 Hub 22295
110 Idle Time 7458
111 Import/Export License 8006
112 In Bond Shipment 12882
113 Inbound Logistics 12514
114 Interstate System 10444
115 Inventory Costs 50788
116 Inventory in Transit 15333
117 Inventory Management 52216
118 Inventory Planning System 9022
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21038
120 JIT (Just In Time) 38429
121 JIT 2 17819
122 Job Production 24957
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8256
124 Kanban Squares 6276
125 Laid-Down Cost 9296
126 Lean Office 5467
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10499
128 Lee's Notation 7925
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13048
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 34723
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8410
132 Linear and Logistics Model 6833
133 Logistics Channel 21945
134 Logistics Costs 25475
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6175
136 Manifest 9620
137 Marks and Numbers 11706
138 Material Planning 33385
139 Materials Management 25316
140 Milk Run 40707
141 Mini Land Bridge 13622
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 8648
143 Modal Split 14256
144 Movement of Goods 18382
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30150
146 North West Corner Method 16235
147 Numeric Distribution 13119
148 One Level Distribution Channel 27539
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 46857
150 Operational Efficiency 9159
151 Operational Objectives 12584
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17534
153 Operational Sustainability 26609
154 Operations Management 18214
155 Order Cancellation 9744
156 Order Cycle 17682
157 Order Cycle Time 22498
158 Order Fill Rate 32836
159 Order Fulfillment 5903
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9633
 
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