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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 44559
62 Date Code 18543
63 Days of Supply 20024
64 Dead on Arrival 9505
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7435
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8261
67 Detective Control 9059
68 Devanning 14352
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11124
70 Dispatching 24825
71 Distributed Inventory 8475
72 Distribution Channel Management 35157
73 Distribution Metrics 9336
74 Distribution Planning 24392
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15428
76 Double Marginalization 53032
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22579
78 Dual 5538
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20769
80 Echelon Inventory 26454
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38464
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50195
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7743
84 Efficient Frontier 25744
85 Engineer-to-Order 31987
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16816
87 Erlang B Formula 9474
88 ETD 8456
89 Ex Works 7939
90 Exception Rate 13683
91 Exponential smoothing 9945
92 External Growth 10240
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9672
94 Field Services 7834
95 Field Warehouse 11028
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8990
97 Fishbone Diagram 14776
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27352
99 Flow Through Distribution 12485
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8342
101 FOB Destination 13227
102 Forward buying 30431
103 Freight Charge 10527
104 Freight Consolidation 7632
105 Gantt Chart 8385
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11930
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29776
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12848
109 Hub 23651
110 Idle Time 8192
111 Import/Export License 8853
112 In Bond Shipment 14140
113 Inbound Logistics 13758
114 Interstate System 11139
115 Inventory Costs 54105
116 Inventory in Transit 16747
117 Inventory Management 55294
118 Inventory Planning System 10002
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22519
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43464
121 JIT 2 18578
122 Job Production 28281
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9279
124 Kanban Squares 6978
125 Laid-Down Cost 10393
126 Lean Office 6255
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10925
128 Lee's Notation 8669
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14478
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37676
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9446
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7621
133 Logistics Channel 23084
134 Logistics Costs 26894
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6771
136 Manifest 10705
137 Marks and Numbers 12822
138 Material Planning 35384
139 Materials Management 26569
140 Milk Run 43399
141 Mini Land Bridge 14566
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9745
143 Modal Split 15614
144 Movement of Goods 19720
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31953
146 North West Corner Method 16984
147 Numeric Distribution 14406
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28770
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48834
150 Operational Efficiency 10070
151 Operational Objectives 13499
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18224
153 Operational Sustainability 28307
154 Operations Management 21120
155 Order Cancellation 10995
156 Order Cycle 18592
157 Order Cycle Time 23695
158 Order Fill Rate 34253
159 Order Fulfillment 6586
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10485
 
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