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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 43850
62 Date Code 18050
63 Days of Supply 19688
64 Dead on Arrival 9105
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7218
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8003
67 Detective Control 8815
68 Devanning 14122
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10754
70 Dispatching 24192
71 Distributed Inventory 8269
72 Distribution Channel Management 34465
73 Distribution Metrics 8956
74 Distribution Planning 24072
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15070
76 Double Marginalization 52463
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22167
78 Dual 5374
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20477
80 Echelon Inventory 26034
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38139
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49361
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7526
84 Efficient Frontier 25281
85 Engineer-to-Order 31553
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16238
87 Erlang B Formula 9248
88 ETD 8235
89 Ex Works 7765
90 Exception Rate 13344
91 Exponential smoothing 9741
92 External Growth 9959
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9338
94 Field Services 7674
95 Field Warehouse 9916
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8640
97 Fishbone Diagram 14501
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26826
99 Flow Through Distribution 12202
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8069
101 FOB Destination 12907
102 Forward buying 29922
103 Freight Charge 10234
104 Freight Consolidation 7444
105 Gantt Chart 8214
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11608
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29406
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12575
109 Hub 23270
110 Idle Time 7978
111 Import/Export License 8620
112 In Bond Shipment 13789
113 Inbound Logistics 13437
114 Interstate System 10906
115 Inventory Costs 53270
116 Inventory in Transit 16305
117 Inventory Management 54408
118 Inventory Planning System 9706
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22153
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42181
121 JIT 2 18342
122 Job Production 27249
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8943
124 Kanban Squares 6753
125 Laid-Down Cost 10046
126 Lean Office 5942
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8485
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14070
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36870
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9129
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7369
133 Logistics Channel 22762
134 Logistics Costs 26497
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6621
136 Manifest 10430
137 Marks and Numbers 12468
138 Material Planning 34927
139 Materials Management 26234
140 Milk Run 42870
141 Mini Land Bridge 14313
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9405
143 Modal Split 15269
144 Movement of Goods 19323
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31379
146 North West Corner Method 16775
147 Numeric Distribution 14061
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28395
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48193
150 Operational Efficiency 9849
151 Operational Objectives 13250
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18052
153 Operational Sustainability 27741
154 Operations Management 20411
155 Order Cancellation 10686
156 Order Cycle 18341
157 Order Cycle Time 23404
158 Order Fill Rate 33872
159 Order Fulfillment 6397
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10191
 
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