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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 43901
62 Date Code 18075
63 Days of Supply 19708
64 Dead on Arrival 9130
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7232
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8019
67 Detective Control 8837
68 Devanning 14138
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10776
70 Dispatching 24260
71 Distributed Inventory 8285
72 Distribution Channel Management 34509
73 Distribution Metrics 8985
74 Distribution Planning 24094
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15093
76 Double Marginalization 52494
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22190
78 Dual 5383
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20498
80 Echelon Inventory 26059
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38158
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49426
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7542
84 Efficient Frontier 25305
85 Engineer-to-Order 31582
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16269
87 Erlang B Formula 9267
88 ETD 8255
89 Ex Works 7777
90 Exception Rate 13370
91 Exponential smoothing 9757
92 External Growth 9980
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9349
94 Field Services 7690
95 Field Warehouse 10025
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8659
97 Fishbone Diagram 14512
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26852
99 Flow Through Distribution 12221
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8085
101 FOB Destination 12938
102 Forward buying 29952
103 Freight Charge 10248
104 Freight Consolidation 7458
105 Gantt Chart 8224
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11627
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29438
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12595
109 Hub 23292
110 Idle Time 7990
111 Import/Export License 8636
112 In Bond Shipment 13816
113 Inbound Logistics 13460
114 Interstate System 10922
115 Inventory Costs 53324
116 Inventory in Transit 16322
117 Inventory Management 54454
118 Inventory Planning System 9717
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22174
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42270
121 JIT 2 18361
122 Job Production 27317
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8966
124 Kanban Squares 6764
125 Laid-Down Cost 10062
126 Lean Office 5956
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10812
128 Lee's Notation 8501
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14090
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36931
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9156
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7378
133 Logistics Channel 22783
134 Logistics Costs 26525
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6629
136 Manifest 10448
137 Marks and Numbers 12499
138 Material Planning 34945
139 Materials Management 26252
140 Milk Run 42913
141 Mini Land Bridge 14326
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9432
143 Modal Split 15303
144 Movement of Goods 19350
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31417
146 North West Corner Method 16792
147 Numeric Distribution 14093
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28420
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48232
150 Operational Efficiency 9862
151 Operational Objectives 13268
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18066
153 Operational Sustainability 27775
154 Operations Management 20474
155 Order Cancellation 10716
156 Order Cycle 18355
157 Order Cycle Time 23414
158 Order Fill Rate 33894
159 Order Fulfillment 6408
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10209
 
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