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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 44276
62 Date Code 18318
63 Days of Supply 19904
64 Dead on Arrival 9389
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7347
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8159
67 Detective Control 8952
68 Devanning 14261
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11013
70 Dispatching 24616
71 Distributed Inventory 8401
72 Distribution Channel Management 34892
73 Distribution Metrics 9190
74 Distribution Planning 24254
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15286
76 Double Marginalization 52843
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22449
78 Dual 5471
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20666
80 Echelon Inventory 26263
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38318
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49880
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7657
84 Efficient Frontier 25574
85 Engineer-to-Order 31837
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16616
87 Erlang B Formula 9389
88 ETD 8368
89 Ex Works 7868
90 Exception Rate 13549
91 Exponential smoothing 9862
92 External Growth 10129
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9563
94 Field Services 7772
95 Field Warehouse 10638
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8842
97 Fishbone Diagram 14661
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27146
99 Flow Through Distribution 12363
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8224
101 FOB Destination 13108
102 Forward buying 30265
103 Freight Charge 10451
104 Freight Consolidation 7572
105 Gantt Chart 8328
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11786
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29653
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12740
109 Hub 23508
110 Idle Time 8108
111 Import/Export License 8769
112 In Bond Shipment 14024
113 Inbound Logistics 13643
114 Interstate System 11053
115 Inventory Costs 53820
116 Inventory in Transit 16590
117 Inventory Management 54967
118 Inventory Planning System 9909
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22362
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43033
121 JIT 2 18491
122 Job Production 27874
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9183
124 Kanban Squares 6877
125 Laid-Down Cost 10260
126 Lean Office 6161
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10885
128 Lee's Notation 8606
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14317
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37413
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9337
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7561
133 Logistics Channel 22971
134 Logistics Costs 26746
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6716
136 Manifest 10589
137 Marks and Numbers 12678
138 Material Planning 35212
139 Materials Management 26436
140 Milk Run 43203
141 Mini Land Bridge 14465
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9623
143 Modal Split 15492
144 Movement of Goods 19549
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31771
146 North West Corner Method 16906
147 Numeric Distribution 14288
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28625
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48575
150 Operational Efficiency 9986
151 Operational Objectives 13407
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18160
153 Operational Sustainability 28142
154 Operations Management 20930
155 Order Cancellation 10886
156 Order Cycle 18499
157 Order Cycle Time 23577
158 Order Fill Rate 34107
159 Order Fulfillment 6509
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10373
 
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