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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 43256
62 Date Code 17707
63 Days of Supply 19440
64 Dead on Arrival 8905
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7066
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7835
67 Detective Control 8678
68 Devanning 13969
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10574
70 Dispatching 23589
71 Distributed Inventory 8154
72 Distribution Channel Management 33999
73 Distribution Metrics 8686
74 Distribution Planning 23880
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14824
76 Double Marginalization 52152
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21970
78 Dual 5245
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20285
80 Echelon Inventory 25841
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37934
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48798
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7392
84 Efficient Frontier 24930
85 Engineer-to-Order 31227
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15910
87 Erlang B Formula 9074
88 ETD 8069
89 Ex Works 7662
90 Exception Rate 13118
91 Exponential smoothing 9594
92 External Growth 9809
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9190
94 Field Services 7574
95 Field Warehouse 9669
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8401
97 Fishbone Diagram 14287
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26489
99 Flow Through Distribution 12023
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7903
101 FOB Destination 12660
102 Forward buying 29687
103 Freight Charge 10083
104 Freight Consolidation 7303
105 Gantt Chart 8101
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11390
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29143
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12408
109 Hub 23021
110 Idle Time 7851
111 Import/Export License 8462
112 In Bond Shipment 13589
113 Inbound Logistics 13191
114 Interstate System 10766
115 Inventory Costs 52693
116 Inventory in Transit 16068
117 Inventory Management 53789
118 Inventory Planning System 9562
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21885
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41291
121 JIT 2 18194
122 Job Production 26565
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8742
124 Kanban Squares 6601
125 Laid-Down Cost 9877
126 Lean Office 5787
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10726
128 Lee's Notation 8340
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13793
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36231
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8939
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7242
133 Logistics Channel 22538
134 Logistics Costs 26258
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6524
136 Manifest 10217
137 Marks and Numbers 12246
138 Material Planning 34531
139 Materials Management 26006
140 Milk Run 42389
141 Mini Land Bridge 14110
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9163
143 Modal Split 14951
144 Movement of Goods 19100
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31037
146 North West Corner Method 16630
147 Numeric Distribution 13822
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28119
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47820
150 Operational Efficiency 9663
151 Operational Objectives 13093
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17922
153 Operational Sustainability 27452
154 Operations Management 19831
155 Order Cancellation 10390
156 Order Cycle 18153
157 Order Cycle Time 23166
158 Order Fill Rate 33603
159 Order Fulfillment 6272
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10028
 
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