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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 44158
62 Date Code 18233
63 Days of Supply 19839
64 Dead on Arrival 9326
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7314
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8110
67 Detective Control 8914
68 Devanning 14215
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10960
70 Dispatching 24523
71 Distributed Inventory 8360
72 Distribution Channel Management 34755
73 Distribution Metrics 9121
74 Distribution Planning 24202
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15217
76 Double Marginalization 52744
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22382
78 Dual 5444
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20617
80 Echelon Inventory 26210
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38273
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49737
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7620
84 Efficient Frontier 25490
85 Engineer-to-Order 31751
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16526
87 Erlang B Formula 9349
88 ETD 8335
89 Ex Works 7836
90 Exception Rate 13496
91 Exponential smoothing 9833
92 External Growth 10078
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9523
94 Field Services 7743
95 Field Warehouse 10466
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8767
97 Fishbone Diagram 14611
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27041
99 Flow Through Distribution 12311
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8182
101 FOB Destination 13034
102 Forward buying 30168
103 Freight Charge 10412
104 Freight Consolidation 7533
105 Gantt Chart 8289
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11736
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29592
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12684
109 Hub 23435
110 Idle Time 8071
111 Import/Export License 8724
112 In Bond Shipment 13959
113 Inbound Logistics 13586
114 Interstate System 11009
115 Inventory Costs 53638
116 Inventory in Transit 16535
117 Inventory Management 54807
118 Inventory Planning System 9874
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22306
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42734
121 JIT 2 18443
122 Job Production 27686
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9150
124 Kanban Squares 6839
125 Laid-Down Cost 10190
126 Lean Office 6128
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10861
128 Lee's Notation 8572
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14233
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37286
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9275
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7532
133 Logistics Channel 22918
134 Logistics Costs 26688
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6692
136 Manifest 10540
137 Marks and Numbers 12606
138 Material Planning 35107
139 Materials Management 26378
140 Milk Run 43116
141 Mini Land Bridge 14421
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9569
143 Modal Split 15426
144 Movement of Goods 19485
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31652
146 North West Corner Method 16873
147 Numeric Distribution 14233
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28555
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48452
150 Operational Efficiency 9948
151 Operational Objectives 13356
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18125
153 Operational Sustainability 28025
154 Operations Management 20790
155 Order Cancellation 10830
156 Order Cycle 18450
157 Order Cycle Time 23521
158 Order Fill Rate 34037
159 Order Fulfillment 6476
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10320
 
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