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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 43922
62 Date Code 18078
63 Days of Supply 19713
64 Dead on Arrival 9136
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7234
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8021
67 Detective Control 8840
68 Devanning 14141
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10782
70 Dispatching 24274
71 Distributed Inventory 8287
72 Distribution Channel Management 34518
73 Distribution Metrics 8992
74 Distribution Planning 24097
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15101
76 Double Marginalization 52501
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22192
78 Dual 5384
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20504
80 Echelon Inventory 26069
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38165
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49442
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7544
84 Efficient Frontier 25313
85 Engineer-to-Order 31591
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16274
87 Erlang B Formula 9269
88 ETD 8260
89 Ex Works 7780
90 Exception Rate 13377
91 Exponential smoothing 9760
92 External Growth 9986
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9354
94 Field Services 7692
95 Field Warehouse 10060
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8669
97 Fishbone Diagram 14517
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26862
99 Flow Through Distribution 12229
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8089
101 FOB Destination 12940
102 Forward buying 29956
103 Freight Charge 10251
104 Freight Consolidation 7463
105 Gantt Chart 8227
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11636
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29448
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12601
109 Hub 23299
110 Idle Time 7995
111 Import/Export License 8640
112 In Bond Shipment 13821
113 Inbound Logistics 13470
114 Interstate System 10927
115 Inventory Costs 53341
116 Inventory in Transit 16328
117 Inventory Management 54472
118 Inventory Planning System 9720
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22186
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42298
121 JIT 2 18364
122 Job Production 27336
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8969
124 Kanban Squares 6766
125 Laid-Down Cost 10067
126 Lean Office 5959
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10812
128 Lee's Notation 8503
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14100
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36950
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9159
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7381
133 Logistics Channel 22792
134 Logistics Costs 26533
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6631
136 Manifest 10452
137 Marks and Numbers 12508
138 Material Planning 34961
139 Materials Management 26261
140 Milk Run 42927
141 Mini Land Bridge 14329
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9437
143 Modal Split 15311
144 Movement of Goods 19354
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31425
146 North West Corner Method 16797
147 Numeric Distribution 14103
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28429
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48245
150 Operational Efficiency 9869
151 Operational Objectives 13270
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18070
153 Operational Sustainability 27786
154 Operations Management 20487
155 Order Cancellation 10721
156 Order Cycle 18360
157 Order Cycle Time 23419
158 Order Fill Rate 33900
159 Order Fulfillment 6413
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10214
 
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