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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 44037
62 Date Code 18153
63 Days of Supply 19773
64 Dead on Arrival 9189
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7272
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8067
67 Detective Control 8875
68 Devanning 14175
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10824
70 Dispatching 24394
71 Distributed Inventory 8311
72 Distribution Channel Management 34623
73 Distribution Metrics 9055
74 Distribution Planning 24148
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15161
76 Double Marginalization 52583
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22241
78 Dual 5413
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20558
80 Echelon Inventory 26137
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38208
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49565
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7575
84 Efficient Frontier 25396
85 Engineer-to-Order 31664
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16354
87 Erlang B Formula 9310
88 ETD 8290
89 Ex Works 7804
90 Exception Rate 13433
91 Exponential smoothing 9792
92 External Growth 10027
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9390
94 Field Services 7715
95 Field Warehouse 10299
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8713
97 Fishbone Diagram 14562
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26943
99 Flow Through Distribution 12267
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8131
101 FOB Destination 12978
102 Forward buying 30020
103 Freight Charge 10281
104 Freight Consolidation 7491
105 Gantt Chart 8261
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11684
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29516
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12638
109 Hub 23358
110 Idle Time 8028
111 Import/Export License 8674
112 In Bond Shipment 13888
113 Inbound Logistics 13531
114 Interstate System 10963
115 Inventory Costs 53468
116 Inventory in Transit 16387
117 Inventory Management 54594
118 Inventory Planning System 9747
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22243
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42503
121 JIT 2 18396
122 Job Production 27495
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9012
124 Kanban Squares 6801
125 Laid-Down Cost 10119
126 Lean Office 5996
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10833
128 Lee's Notation 8536
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14165
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37103
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9213
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7406
133 Logistics Channel 22846
134 Logistics Costs 26602
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6656
136 Manifest 10492
137 Marks and Numbers 12563
138 Material Planning 35023
139 Materials Management 26311
140 Milk Run 43026
141 Mini Land Bridge 14379
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9498
143 Modal Split 15366
144 Movement of Goods 19413
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31526
146 North West Corner Method 16827
147 Numeric Distribution 14160
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28488
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48338
150 Operational Efficiency 9906
151 Operational Objectives 13308
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18096
153 Operational Sustainability 27867
154 Operations Management 20589
155 Order Cancellation 10769
156 Order Cycle 18402
157 Order Cycle Time 23461
158 Order Fill Rate 33961
159 Order Fulfillment 6445
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10273
 
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