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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 44389
62 Date Code 18412
63 Days of Supply 19958
64 Dead on Arrival 9438
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7383
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8205
67 Detective Control 8994
68 Devanning 14304
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11061
70 Dispatching 24709
71 Distributed Inventory 8435
72 Distribution Channel Management 35027
73 Distribution Metrics 9257
74 Distribution Planning 24319
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15354
76 Double Marginalization 52929
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22503
78 Dual 5495
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20719
80 Echelon Inventory 26333
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38378
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50024
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7693
84 Efficient Frontier 25644
85 Engineer-to-Order 31901
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16693
87 Erlang B Formula 9427
88 ETD 8407
89 Ex Works 7896
90 Exception Rate 13615
91 Exponential smoothing 9902
92 External Growth 10177
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9605
94 Field Services 7797
95 Field Warehouse 10809
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8901
97 Fishbone Diagram 14706
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27236
99 Flow Through Distribution 12417
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8276
101 FOB Destination 13157
102 Forward buying 30348
103 Freight Charge 10492
104 Freight Consolidation 7601
105 Gantt Chart 8352
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11841
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29710
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12787
109 Hub 23568
110 Idle Time 8145
111 Import/Export License 8812
112 In Bond Shipment 14080
113 Inbound Logistics 13694
114 Interstate System 11097
115 Inventory Costs 53966
116 Inventory in Transit 16657
117 Inventory Management 55106
118 Inventory Planning System 9950
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22429
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43207
121 JIT 2 18534
122 Job Production 28049
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9227
124 Kanban Squares 6929
125 Laid-Down Cost 10321
126 Lean Office 6209
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10903
128 Lee's Notation 8632
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14387
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37525
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9385
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7591
133 Logistics Channel 23026
134 Logistics Costs 26819
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6739
136 Manifest 10649
137 Marks and Numbers 12739
138 Material Planning 35293
139 Materials Management 26499
140 Milk Run 43297
141 Mini Land Bridge 14518
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9686
143 Modal Split 15552
144 Movement of Goods 19607
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31856
146 North West Corner Method 16943
147 Numeric Distribution 14348
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28690
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48696
150 Operational Efficiency 10024
151 Operational Objectives 13457
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18192
153 Operational Sustainability 28212
154 Operations Management 21016
155 Order Cancellation 10931
156 Order Cycle 18545
157 Order Cycle Time 23628
158 Order Fill Rate 34170
159 Order Fulfillment 6548
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10423
 
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