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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 43320
62 Date Code 17736
63 Days of Supply 19464
64 Dead on Arrival 8930
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7077
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7856
67 Detective Control 8691
68 Devanning 13988
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10593
70 Dispatching 23641
71 Distributed Inventory 8168
72 Distribution Channel Management 34054
73 Distribution Metrics 8717
74 Distribution Planning 23900
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14854
76 Double Marginalization 52195
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21993
78 Dual 5267
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20301
80 Echelon Inventory 25861
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37956
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48862
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7406
84 Efficient Frontier 24974
85 Engineer-to-Order 31259
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15956
87 Erlang B Formula 9098
88 ETD 8086
89 Ex Works 7672
90 Exception Rate 13147
91 Exponential smoothing 9612
92 External Growth 9824
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9210
94 Field Services 7583
95 Field Warehouse 9688
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8433
97 Fishbone Diagram 14307
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26524
99 Flow Through Distribution 12050
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7925
101 FOB Destination 12682
102 Forward buying 29718
103 Freight Charge 10101
104 Freight Consolidation 7323
105 Gantt Chart 8114
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11420
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29182
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12425
109 Hub 23051
110 Idle Time 7864
111 Import/Export License 8480
112 In Bond Shipment 13614
113 Inbound Logistics 13217
114 Interstate System 10777
115 Inventory Costs 52763
116 Inventory in Transit 16101
117 Inventory Management 53849
118 Inventory Planning System 9584
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21924
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41397
121 JIT 2 18212
122 Job Production 26644
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8765
124 Kanban Squares 6621
125 Laid-Down Cost 9890
126 Lean Office 5805
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10735
128 Lee's Notation 8356
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13828
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36296
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8956
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7270
133 Logistics Channel 22568
134 Logistics Costs 26285
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6540
136 Manifest 10240
137 Marks and Numbers 12260
138 Material Planning 34582
139 Materials Management 26030
140 Milk Run 42448
141 Mini Land Bridge 14132
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9189
143 Modal Split 14985
144 Movement of Goods 19129
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31072
146 North West Corner Method 16648
147 Numeric Distribution 13851
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28147
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47860
150 Operational Efficiency 9680
151 Operational Objectives 13112
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17933
153 Operational Sustainability 27496
154 Operations Management 19888
155 Order Cancellation 10418
156 Order Cycle 18170
157 Order Cycle Time 23192
158 Order Fill Rate 33636
159 Order Fulfillment 6287
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10042
 
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