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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 44046
62 Date Code 18156
63 Days of Supply 19779
64 Dead on Arrival 9194
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7273
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8068
67 Detective Control 8877
68 Devanning 14176
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10828
70 Dispatching 24401
71 Distributed Inventory 8315
72 Distribution Channel Management 34637
73 Distribution Metrics 9059
74 Distribution Planning 24151
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15162
76 Double Marginalization 52589
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22243
78 Dual 5417
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20562
80 Echelon Inventory 26143
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38211
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49578
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7579
84 Efficient Frontier 25405
85 Engineer-to-Order 31672
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16360
87 Erlang B Formula 9312
88 ETD 8295
89 Ex Works 7806
90 Exception Rate 13434
91 Exponential smoothing 9796
92 External Growth 10031
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9393
94 Field Services 7719
95 Field Warehouse 10314
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8714
97 Fishbone Diagram 14565
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26950
99 Flow Through Distribution 12273
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8134
101 FOB Destination 12981
102 Forward buying 30024
103 Freight Charge 10286
104 Freight Consolidation 7492
105 Gantt Chart 8263
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11685
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29520
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12641
109 Hub 23362
110 Idle Time 8031
111 Import/Export License 8678
112 In Bond Shipment 13891
113 Inbound Logistics 13535
114 Interstate System 10965
115 Inventory Costs 53477
116 Inventory in Transit 16391
117 Inventory Management 54604
118 Inventory Planning System 9749
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22244
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42517
121 JIT 2 18401
122 Job Production 27504
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9015
124 Kanban Squares 6805
125 Laid-Down Cost 10122
126 Lean Office 5998
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10833
128 Lee's Notation 8537
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14169
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37111
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9217
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7406
133 Logistics Channel 22852
134 Logistics Costs 26605
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6657
136 Manifest 10496
137 Marks and Numbers 12565
138 Material Planning 35029
139 Materials Management 26315
140 Milk Run 43033
141 Mini Land Bridge 14381
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9504
143 Modal Split 15369
144 Movement of Goods 19414
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31534
146 North West Corner Method 16828
147 Numeric Distribution 14168
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28492
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48344
150 Operational Efficiency 9908
151 Operational Objectives 13311
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18096
153 Operational Sustainability 27872
154 Operations Management 20596
155 Order Cancellation 10774
156 Order Cycle 18406
157 Order Cycle Time 23465
158 Order Fill Rate 33964
159 Order Fulfillment 6445
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10274
 
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