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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 44200
62 Date Code 18259
63 Days of Supply 19858
64 Dead on Arrival 9341
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7324
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8126
67 Detective Control 8924
68 Devanning 14224
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10980
70 Dispatching 24547
71 Distributed Inventory 8371
72 Distribution Channel Management 34785
73 Distribution Metrics 9134
74 Distribution Planning 24221
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15236
76 Double Marginalization 52776
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22401
78 Dual 5452
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20629
80 Echelon Inventory 26232
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38292
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49781
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7631
84 Efficient Frontier 25510
85 Engineer-to-Order 31777
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16550
87 Erlang B Formula 9362
88 ETD 8344
89 Ex Works 7847
90 Exception Rate 13510
91 Exponential smoothing 9842
92 External Growth 10092
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9533
94 Field Services 7752
95 Field Warehouse 10528
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8787
97 Fishbone Diagram 14625
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27066
99 Flow Through Distribution 12329
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8196
101 FOB Destination 13052
102 Forward buying 30192
103 Freight Charge 10423
104 Freight Consolidation 7541
105 Gantt Chart 8301
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11748
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29610
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12700
109 Hub 23456
110 Idle Time 8082
111 Import/Export License 8736
112 In Bond Shipment 13980
113 Inbound Logistics 13608
114 Interstate System 11022
115 Inventory Costs 53705
116 Inventory in Transit 16554
117 Inventory Management 54855
118 Inventory Planning System 9886
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22322
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42812
121 JIT 2 18457
122 Job Production 27745
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9161
124 Kanban Squares 6854
125 Laid-Down Cost 10208
126 Lean Office 6138
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10867
128 Lee's Notation 8580
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14262
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37325
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9291
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7542
133 Logistics Channel 22935
134 Logistics Costs 26707
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6702
136 Manifest 10556
137 Marks and Numbers 12627
138 Material Planning 35138
139 Materials Management 26391
140 Milk Run 43140
141 Mini Land Bridge 14434
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9583
143 Modal Split 15452
144 Movement of Goods 19504
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31690
146 North West Corner Method 16881
147 Numeric Distribution 14248
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28581
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48487
150 Operational Efficiency 9961
151 Operational Objectives 13371
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18135
153 Operational Sustainability 28057
154 Operations Management 20836
155 Order Cancellation 10848
156 Order Cycle 18463
157 Order Cycle Time 23539
158 Order Fill Rate 34057
159 Order Fulfillment 6487
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10337
 
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