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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 44073
62 Date Code 18181
63 Days of Supply 19794
64 Dead on Arrival 9208
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7285
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8081
67 Detective Control 8884
68 Devanning 14191
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10839
70 Dispatching 24435
71 Distributed Inventory 8332
72 Distribution Channel Management 34656
73 Distribution Metrics 9081
74 Distribution Planning 24163
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15178
76 Double Marginalization 52602
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22258
78 Dual 5426
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20576
80 Echelon Inventory 26162
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38228
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49618
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7591
84 Efficient Frontier 25424
85 Engineer-to-Order 31697
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16383
87 Erlang B Formula 9326
88 ETD 8308
89 Ex Works 7818
90 Exception Rate 13451
91 Exponential smoothing 9809
92 External Growth 10045
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9400
94 Field Services 7726
95 Field Warehouse 10367
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8732
97 Fishbone Diagram 14578
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26971
99 Flow Through Distribution 12281
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8147
101 FOB Destination 12994
102 Forward buying 30038
103 Freight Charge 10298
104 Freight Consolidation 7506
105 Gantt Chart 8271
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11699
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29536
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12652
109 Hub 23380
110 Idle Time 8046
111 Import/Export License 8688
112 In Bond Shipment 13913
113 Inbound Logistics 13547
114 Interstate System 10979
115 Inventory Costs 53531
116 Inventory in Transit 16409
117 Inventory Management 54639
118 Inventory Planning System 9757
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22255
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42577
121 JIT 2 18409
122 Job Production 27550
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9031
124 Kanban Squares 6811
125 Laid-Down Cost 10139
126 Lean Office 6013
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10842
128 Lee's Notation 8545
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14189
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37139
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9235
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7415
133 Logistics Channel 22868
134 Logistics Costs 26625
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6670
136 Manifest 10505
137 Marks and Numbers 12575
138 Material Planning 35049
139 Materials Management 26333
140 Milk Run 43057
141 Mini Land Bridge 14393
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9518
143 Modal Split 15385
144 Movement of Goods 19441
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31566
146 North West Corner Method 16842
147 Numeric Distribution 14184
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28508
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48371
150 Operational Efficiency 9919
151 Operational Objectives 13324
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18107
153 Operational Sustainability 27890
154 Operations Management 20618
155 Order Cancellation 10793
156 Order Cycle 18420
157 Order Cycle Time 23482
158 Order Fill Rate 33985
159 Order Fulfillment 6454
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10281
 
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