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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 44521
62 Date Code 18517
63 Days of Supply 20007
64 Dead on Arrival 9487
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7422
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8247
67 Detective Control 9040
68 Devanning 14344
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11106
70 Dispatching 24792
71 Distributed Inventory 8468
72 Distribution Channel Management 35120
73 Distribution Metrics 9315
74 Distribution Planning 24371
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15409
76 Double Marginalization 53008
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22561
78 Dual 5526
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20754
80 Echelon Inventory 26424
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38441
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50150
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7731
84 Efficient Frontier 25721
85 Engineer-to-Order 31964
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16789
87 Erlang B Formula 9466
88 ETD 8442
89 Ex Works 7928
90 Exception Rate 13665
91 Exponential smoothing 9934
92 External Growth 10224
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9651
94 Field Services 7826
95 Field Warehouse 10960
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8964
97 Fishbone Diagram 14759
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27315
99 Flow Through Distribution 12468
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8320
101 FOB Destination 13209
102 Forward buying 30402
103 Freight Charge 10517
104 Freight Consolidation 7625
105 Gantt Chart 8377
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11903
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29762
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12829
109 Hub 23623
110 Idle Time 8177
111 Import/Export License 8840
112 In Bond Shipment 14120
113 Inbound Logistics 13743
114 Interstate System 11129
115 Inventory Costs 54070
116 Inventory in Transit 16718
117 Inventory Management 55241
118 Inventory Planning System 9984
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22495
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43385
121 JIT 2 18565
122 Job Production 28224
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9266
124 Kanban Squares 6966
125 Laid-Down Cost 10370
126 Lean Office 6247
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10920
128 Lee's Notation 8656
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14450
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37637
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9430
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7616
133 Logistics Channel 23066
134 Logistics Costs 26874
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6763
136 Manifest 10687
137 Marks and Numbers 12798
138 Material Planning 35361
139 Materials Management 26549
140 Milk Run 43371
141 Mini Land Bridge 14557
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9733
143 Modal Split 15596
144 Movement of Goods 19692
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31929
146 North West Corner Method 16976
147 Numeric Distribution 14393
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28749
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48803
150 Operational Efficiency 10056
151 Operational Objectives 13486
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18213
153 Operational Sustainability 28286
154 Operations Management 21097
155 Order Cancellation 10980
156 Order Cycle 18581
157 Order Cycle Time 23676
158 Order Fill Rate 34223
159 Order Fulfillment 6574
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10472
 
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