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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 44308
62 Date Code 18340
63 Days of Supply 19921
64 Dead on Arrival 9406
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7358
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8176
67 Detective Control 8969
68 Devanning 14274
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11028
70 Dispatching 24644
71 Distributed Inventory 8412
72 Distribution Channel Management 34933
73 Distribution Metrics 9211
74 Distribution Planning 24277
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15308
76 Double Marginalization 52867
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22467
78 Dual 5481
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20688
80 Echelon Inventory 26286
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38337
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49927
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7670
84 Efficient Frontier 25589
85 Engineer-to-Order 31856
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16639
87 Erlang B Formula 9404
88 ETD 8382
89 Ex Works 7879
90 Exception Rate 13573
91 Exponential smoothing 9875
92 External Growth 10149
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9575
94 Field Services 7783
95 Field Warehouse 10696
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8862
97 Fishbone Diagram 14678
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27172
99 Flow Through Distribution 12383
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8244
101 FOB Destination 13122
102 Forward buying 30297
103 Freight Charge 10465
104 Freight Consolidation 7583
105 Gantt Chart 8334
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11803
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29674
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12754
109 Hub 23527
110 Idle Time 8123
111 Import/Export License 8785
112 In Bond Shipment 14044
113 Inbound Logistics 13661
114 Interstate System 11069
115 Inventory Costs 53866
116 Inventory in Transit 16609
117 Inventory Management 55011
118 Inventory Planning System 9922
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22385
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43100
121 JIT 2 18504
122 Job Production 27940
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9199
124 Kanban Squares 6896
125 Laid-Down Cost 10284
126 Lean Office 6181
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10892
128 Lee's Notation 8621
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14340
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37446
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9350
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7573
133 Logistics Channel 22987
134 Logistics Costs 26771
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6724
136 Manifest 10609
137 Marks and Numbers 12699
138 Material Planning 35239
139 Materials Management 26461
140 Milk Run 43235
141 Mini Land Bridge 14485
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9646
143 Modal Split 15509
144 Movement of Goods 19568
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31804
146 North West Corner Method 16915
147 Numeric Distribution 14307
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28648
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48608
150 Operational Efficiency 10000
151 Operational Objectives 13422
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18174
153 Operational Sustainability 28168
154 Operations Management 20960
155 Order Cancellation 10903
156 Order Cycle 18515
157 Order Cycle Time 23593
158 Order Fill Rate 34130
159 Order Fulfillment 6521
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10391
 
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