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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 43361
62 Date Code 17753
63 Days of Supply 19490
64 Dead on Arrival 8937
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7087
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7867
67 Detective Control 8695
68 Devanning 13996
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10605
70 Dispatching 23667
71 Distributed Inventory 8169
72 Distribution Channel Management 34082
73 Distribution Metrics 8725
74 Distribution Planning 23913
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14868
76 Double Marginalization 52222
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22004
78 Dual 5272
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20307
80 Echelon Inventory 25873
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37965
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48898
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7415
84 Efficient Frontier 24991
85 Engineer-to-Order 31276
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15972
87 Erlang B Formula 9107
88 ETD 8096
89 Ex Works 7678
90 Exception Rate 13160
91 Exponential smoothing 9617
92 External Growth 9833
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9216
94 Field Services 7586
95 Field Warehouse 9696
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8444
97 Fishbone Diagram 14313
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26548
99 Flow Through Distribution 12059
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7934
101 FOB Destination 12695
102 Forward buying 29737
103 Freight Charge 10107
104 Freight Consolidation 7333
105 Gantt Chart 8121
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11433
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29197
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12435
109 Hub 23066
110 Idle Time 7873
111 Import/Export License 8491
112 In Bond Shipment 13626
113 Inbound Logistics 13231
114 Interstate System 10784
115 Inventory Costs 52793
116 Inventory in Transit 16111
117 Inventory Management 53885
118 Inventory Planning System 9594
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21943
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41450
121 JIT 2 18220
122 Job Production 26683
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8774
124 Kanban Squares 6631
125 Laid-Down Cost 9899
126 Lean Office 5813
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10744
128 Lee's Notation 8366
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13841
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36336
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8967
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7280
133 Logistics Channel 22574
134 Logistics Costs 26302
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6544
136 Manifest 10249
137 Marks and Numbers 12270
138 Material Planning 34596
139 Materials Management 26041
140 Milk Run 42475
141 Mini Land Bridge 14147
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9208
143 Modal Split 14995
144 Movement of Goods 19144
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31088
146 North West Corner Method 16655
147 Numeric Distribution 13863
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28158
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47877
150 Operational Efficiency 9693
151 Operational Objectives 13120
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17940
153 Operational Sustainability 27514
154 Operations Management 19922
155 Order Cancellation 10431
156 Order Cycle 18179
157 Order Cycle Time 23205
158 Order Fill Rate 33652
159 Order Fulfillment 6294
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10050
 
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