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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 43782
62 Date Code 18016
63 Days of Supply 19669
64 Dead on Arrival 9086
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7198
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7987
67 Detective Control 8796
68 Devanning 14111
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10739
70 Dispatching 24113
71 Distributed Inventory 8254
72 Distribution Channel Management 34408
73 Distribution Metrics 8926
74 Distribution Planning 24052
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15038
76 Double Marginalization 52428
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22146
78 Dual 5363
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20453
80 Echelon Inventory 26002
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38115
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49302
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7511
84 Efficient Frontier 25237
85 Engineer-to-Order 31517
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16199
87 Erlang B Formula 9229
88 ETD 8212
89 Ex Works 7752
90 Exception Rate 13318
91 Exponential smoothing 9730
92 External Growth 9945
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9319
94 Field Services 7661
95 Field Warehouse 9851
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8613
97 Fishbone Diagram 14476
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26789
99 Flow Through Distribution 12177
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8048
101 FOB Destination 12881
102 Forward buying 29896
103 Freight Charge 10218
104 Freight Consolidation 7432
105 Gantt Chart 8205
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11587
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29376
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12558
109 Hub 23238
110 Idle Time 7965
111 Import/Export License 8605
112 In Bond Shipment 13764
113 Inbound Logistics 13408
114 Interstate System 10886
115 Inventory Costs 53199
116 Inventory in Transit 16283
117 Inventory Management 54333
118 Inventory Planning System 9688
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22123
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42069
121 JIT 2 18324
122 Job Production 27175
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8926
124 Kanban Squares 6741
125 Laid-Down Cost 10024
126 Lean Office 5927
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10796
128 Lee's Notation 8466
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14038
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36799
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9107
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7361
133 Logistics Channel 22741
134 Logistics Costs 26471
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6615
136 Manifest 10406
137 Marks and Numbers 12438
138 Material Planning 34888
139 Materials Management 26211
140 Milk Run 42829
141 Mini Land Bridge 14283
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9380
143 Modal Split 15241
144 Movement of Goods 19299
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31340
146 North West Corner Method 16762
147 Numeric Distribution 14022
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28357
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48153
150 Operational Efficiency 9830
151 Operational Objectives 13236
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18034
153 Operational Sustainability 27709
154 Operations Management 20346
155 Order Cancellation 10662
156 Order Cycle 18315
157 Order Cycle Time 23378
158 Order Fill Rate 33837
159 Order Fulfillment 6382
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10171
 
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