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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 44566
62 Date Code 18548
63 Days of Supply 20027
64 Dead on Arrival 9507
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7437
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8265
67 Detective Control 9064
68 Devanning 14354
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11126
70 Dispatching 24831
71 Distributed Inventory 8477
72 Distribution Channel Management 35160
73 Distribution Metrics 9344
74 Distribution Planning 24392
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15434
76 Double Marginalization 53041
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22585
78 Dual 5542
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20772
80 Echelon Inventory 26461
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38466
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50201
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7744
84 Efficient Frontier 25749
85 Engineer-to-Order 31992
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16821
87 Erlang B Formula 9477
88 ETD 8458
89 Ex Works 7944
90 Exception Rate 13686
91 Exponential smoothing 9947
92 External Growth 10242
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9672
94 Field Services 7835
95 Field Warehouse 11040
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8992
97 Fishbone Diagram 14781
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27357
99 Flow Through Distribution 12490
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8345
101 FOB Destination 13228
102 Forward buying 30438
103 Freight Charge 10532
104 Freight Consolidation 7636
105 Gantt Chart 8387
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11936
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29779
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12850
109 Hub 23653
110 Idle Time 8196
111 Import/Export License 8856
112 In Bond Shipment 14141
113 Inbound Logistics 13760
114 Interstate System 11141
115 Inventory Costs 54116
116 Inventory in Transit 16752
117 Inventory Management 55306
118 Inventory Planning System 10004
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22523
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43478
121 JIT 2 18584
122 Job Production 28295
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9280
124 Kanban Squares 6982
125 Laid-Down Cost 10394
126 Lean Office 6259
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10926
128 Lee's Notation 8673
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14480
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37679
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9451
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7624
133 Logistics Channel 23085
134 Logistics Costs 26896
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6772
136 Manifest 10710
137 Marks and Numbers 12825
138 Material Planning 35390
139 Materials Management 26575
140 Milk Run 43403
141 Mini Land Bridge 14571
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9748
143 Modal Split 15620
144 Movement of Goods 19729
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31958
146 North West Corner Method 16985
147 Numeric Distribution 14412
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28774
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48841
150 Operational Efficiency 10072
151 Operational Objectives 13500
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18227
153 Operational Sustainability 28315
154 Operations Management 21124
155 Order Cancellation 10998
156 Order Cycle 18596
157 Order Cycle Time 23699
158 Order Fill Rate 34256
159 Order Fulfillment 6590
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10488
 
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