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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 44453
62 Date Code 18478
63 Days of Supply 19984
64 Dead on Arrival 9467
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7403
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8230
67 Detective Control 9018
68 Devanning 14325
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11086
70 Dispatching 24754
71 Distributed Inventory 8454
72 Distribution Channel Management 35082
73 Distribution Metrics 9286
74 Distribution Planning 24352
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15388
76 Double Marginalization 52972
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22533
78 Dual 5508
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20739
80 Echelon Inventory 26378
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38409
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50092
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7717
84 Efficient Frontier 25683
85 Engineer-to-Order 31938
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16744
87 Erlang B Formula 9449
88 ETD 8424
89 Ex Works 7916
90 Exception Rate 13645
91 Exponential smoothing 9919
92 External Growth 10201
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9628
94 Field Services 7811
95 Field Warehouse 10893
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8939
97 Fishbone Diagram 14732
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27280
99 Flow Through Distribution 12445
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8300
101 FOB Destination 13179
102 Forward buying 30376
103 Freight Charge 10506
104 Freight Consolidation 7612
105 Gantt Chart 8365
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11873
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29738
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12803
109 Hub 23591
110 Idle Time 8159
111 Import/Export License 8827
112 In Bond Shipment 14097
113 Inbound Logistics 13716
114 Interstate System 11110
115 Inventory Costs 54022
116 Inventory in Transit 16689
117 Inventory Management 55180
118 Inventory Planning System 9966
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22472
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43284
121 JIT 2 18551
122 Job Production 28151
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9246
124 Kanban Squares 6949
125 Laid-Down Cost 10345
126 Lean Office 6228
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10910
128 Lee's Notation 8644
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14424
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37582
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9411
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7603
133 Logistics Channel 23047
134 Logistics Costs 26849
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6753
136 Manifest 10670
137 Marks and Numbers 12774
138 Material Planning 35328
139 Materials Management 26528
140 Milk Run 43335
141 Mini Land Bridge 14538
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9706
143 Modal Split 15573
144 Movement of Goods 19645
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31895
146 North West Corner Method 16956
147 Numeric Distribution 14367
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28724
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48762
150 Operational Efficiency 10043
151 Operational Objectives 13473
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18201
153 Operational Sustainability 28253
154 Operations Management 21062
155 Order Cancellation 10955
156 Order Cycle 18562
157 Order Cycle Time 23654
158 Order Fill Rate 34197
159 Order Fulfillment 6564
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10451
 
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