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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 44319
62 Date Code 18350
63 Days of Supply 19926
64 Dead on Arrival 9409
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7363
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8179
67 Detective Control 8972
68 Devanning 14277
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11032
70 Dispatching 24657
71 Distributed Inventory 8414
72 Distribution Channel Management 34949
73 Distribution Metrics 9215
74 Distribution Planning 24283
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15315
76 Double Marginalization 52875
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22473
78 Dual 5484
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20691
80 Echelon Inventory 26291
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38342
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49943
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7672
84 Efficient Frontier 25596
85 Engineer-to-Order 31860
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16648
87 Erlang B Formula 9407
88 ETD 8386
89 Ex Works 7879
90 Exception Rate 13578
91 Exponential smoothing 9877
92 External Growth 10152
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9579
94 Field Services 7787
95 Field Warehouse 10708
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8867
97 Fishbone Diagram 14680
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27185
99 Flow Through Distribution 12387
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8246
101 FOB Destination 13127
102 Forward buying 30307
103 Freight Charge 10469
104 Freight Consolidation 7586
105 Gantt Chart 8338
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11808
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29677
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12759
109 Hub 23536
110 Idle Time 8127
111 Import/Export License 8790
112 In Bond Shipment 14050
113 Inbound Logistics 13666
114 Interstate System 11077
115 Inventory Costs 53881
116 Inventory in Transit 16616
117 Inventory Management 55025
118 Inventory Planning System 9925
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22390
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43116
121 JIT 2 18510
122 Job Production 27954
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9203
124 Kanban Squares 6900
125 Laid-Down Cost 10285
126 Lean Office 6185
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10893
128 Lee's Notation 8624
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14347
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37453
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9353
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7575
133 Logistics Channel 22995
134 Logistics Costs 26778
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6725
136 Manifest 10615
137 Marks and Numbers 12703
138 Material Planning 35247
139 Materials Management 26465
140 Milk Run 43244
141 Mini Land Bridge 14488
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9650
143 Modal Split 15517
144 Movement of Goods 19577
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31813
146 North West Corner Method 16920
147 Numeric Distribution 14314
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28652
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48626
150 Operational Efficiency 10002
151 Operational Objectives 13428
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18177
153 Operational Sustainability 28174
154 Operations Management 20966
155 Order Cancellation 10907
156 Order Cycle 18522
157 Order Cycle Time 23598
158 Order Fill Rate 34136
159 Order Fulfillment 6524
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10396
 
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