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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 44197
62 Date Code 18257
63 Days of Supply 19855
64 Dead on Arrival 9341
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7322
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8125
67 Detective Control 8923
68 Devanning 14224
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10978
70 Dispatching 24545
71 Distributed Inventory 8369
72 Distribution Channel Management 34784
73 Distribution Metrics 9133
74 Distribution Planning 24216
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15235
76 Double Marginalization 52774
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22399
78 Dual 5451
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20628
80 Echelon Inventory 26229
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38291
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49778
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7629
84 Efficient Frontier 25509
85 Engineer-to-Order 31774
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16546
87 Erlang B Formula 9360
88 ETD 8343
89 Ex Works 7847
90 Exception Rate 13509
91 Exponential smoothing 9841
92 External Growth 10090
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9531
94 Field Services 7750
95 Field Warehouse 10519
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8784
97 Fishbone Diagram 14624
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27061
99 Flow Through Distribution 12327
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8193
101 FOB Destination 13050
102 Forward buying 30187
103 Freight Charge 10422
104 Freight Consolidation 7540
105 Gantt Chart 8300
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11747
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29607
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12700
109 Hub 23454
110 Idle Time 8081
111 Import/Export License 8735
112 In Bond Shipment 13975
113 Inbound Logistics 13602
114 Interstate System 11021
115 Inventory Costs 53699
116 Inventory in Transit 16552
117 Inventory Management 54851
118 Inventory Planning System 9885
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22320
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42801
121 JIT 2 18455
122 Job Production 27740
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9160
124 Kanban Squares 6852
125 Laid-Down Cost 10207
126 Lean Office 6136
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10866
128 Lee's Notation 8580
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14261
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37321
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9290
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7541
133 Logistics Channel 22933
134 Logistics Costs 26707
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6701
136 Manifest 10555
137 Marks and Numbers 12624
138 Material Planning 35134
139 Materials Management 26389
140 Milk Run 43139
141 Mini Land Bridge 14432
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9580
143 Modal Split 15449
144 Movement of Goods 19503
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31686
146 North West Corner Method 16881
147 Numeric Distribution 14247
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28579
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48485
150 Operational Efficiency 9959
151 Operational Objectives 13369
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18134
153 Operational Sustainability 28053
154 Operations Management 20832
155 Order Cancellation 10848
156 Order Cycle 18460
157 Order Cycle Time 23536
158 Order Fill Rate 34056
159 Order Fulfillment 6486
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10335
 
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