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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 44154
62 Date Code 18231
63 Days of Supply 19838
64 Dead on Arrival 9324
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7312
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8108
67 Detective Control 8912
68 Devanning 14211
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10958
70 Dispatching 24518
71 Distributed Inventory 8358
72 Distribution Channel Management 34751
73 Distribution Metrics 9121
74 Distribution Planning 24201
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15216
76 Double Marginalization 52740
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22381
78 Dual 5443
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20615
80 Echelon Inventory 26206
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38270
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49733
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7617
84 Efficient Frontier 25485
85 Engineer-to-Order 31746
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16524
87 Erlang B Formula 9348
88 ETD 8333
89 Ex Works 7835
90 Exception Rate 13495
91 Exponential smoothing 9832
92 External Growth 10076
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9521
94 Field Services 7742
95 Field Warehouse 10462
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8763
97 Fishbone Diagram 14608
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27038
99 Flow Through Distribution 12310
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8179
101 FOB Destination 13033
102 Forward buying 30165
103 Freight Charge 10412
104 Freight Consolidation 7532
105 Gantt Chart 8289
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11735
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29590
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12683
109 Hub 23432
110 Idle Time 8070
111 Import/Export License 8723
112 In Bond Shipment 13958
113 Inbound Logistics 13585
114 Interstate System 11007
115 Inventory Costs 53634
116 Inventory in Transit 16533
117 Inventory Management 54806
118 Inventory Planning System 9873
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22303
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42725
121 JIT 2 18441
122 Job Production 27683
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9146
124 Kanban Squares 6838
125 Laid-Down Cost 10190
126 Lean Office 6127
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10861
128 Lee's Notation 8572
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14230
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37285
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9274
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7532
133 Logistics Channel 22915
134 Logistics Costs 26685
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6691
136 Manifest 10540
137 Marks and Numbers 12606
138 Material Planning 35107
139 Materials Management 26375
140 Milk Run 43114
141 Mini Land Bridge 14420
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9567
143 Modal Split 15426
144 Movement of Goods 19484
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31649
146 North West Corner Method 16872
147 Numeric Distribution 14232
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28553
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48450
150 Operational Efficiency 9948
151 Operational Objectives 13356
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18125
153 Operational Sustainability 28023
154 Operations Management 20784
155 Order Cancellation 10828
156 Order Cycle 18450
157 Order Cycle Time 23519
158 Order Fill Rate 34035
159 Order Fulfillment 6475
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10319
 
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