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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 43816
62 Date Code 18032
63 Days of Supply 19674
64 Dead on Arrival 9093
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7208
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7997
67 Detective Control 8806
68 Devanning 14116
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10744
70 Dispatching 24161
71 Distributed Inventory 8261
72 Distribution Channel Management 34442
73 Distribution Metrics 8941
74 Distribution Planning 24062
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15054
76 Double Marginalization 52442
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22156
78 Dual 5368
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20466
80 Echelon Inventory 26018
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38124
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49334
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7518
84 Efficient Frontier 25264
85 Engineer-to-Order 31534
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16218
87 Erlang B Formula 9240
88 ETD 8224
89 Ex Works 7759
90 Exception Rate 13329
91 Exponential smoothing 9737
92 External Growth 9952
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9331
94 Field Services 7668
95 Field Warehouse 9885
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8626
97 Fishbone Diagram 14488
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26808
99 Flow Through Distribution 12190
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8060
101 FOB Destination 12895
102 Forward buying 29907
103 Freight Charge 10227
104 Freight Consolidation 7437
105 Gantt Chart 8210
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11595
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29389
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12567
109 Hub 23256
110 Idle Time 7972
111 Import/Export License 8610
112 In Bond Shipment 13776
113 Inbound Logistics 13425
114 Interstate System 10895
115 Inventory Costs 53234
116 Inventory in Transit 16293
117 Inventory Management 54367
118 Inventory Planning System 9698
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22137
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42130
121 JIT 2 18332
122 Job Production 27211
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8934
124 Kanban Squares 6746
125 Laid-Down Cost 10034
126 Lean Office 5937
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10800
128 Lee's Notation 8473
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14050
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36837
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9116
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7365
133 Logistics Channel 22752
134 Logistics Costs 26489
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6616
136 Manifest 10416
137 Marks and Numbers 12454
138 Material Planning 34912
139 Materials Management 26221
140 Milk Run 42846
141 Mini Land Bridge 14296
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9392
143 Modal Split 15256
144 Movement of Goods 19309
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31361
146 North West Corner Method 16769
147 Numeric Distribution 14041
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28376
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48170
150 Operational Efficiency 9840
151 Operational Objectives 13242
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18044
153 Operational Sustainability 27725
154 Operations Management 20387
155 Order Cancellation 10671
156 Order Cycle 18330
157 Order Cycle Time 23389
158 Order Fill Rate 33860
159 Order Fulfillment 6390
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10181
 
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