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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 44129
62 Date Code 18214
63 Days of Supply 19827
64 Dead on Arrival 9293
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7305
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8100
67 Detective Control 8903
68 Devanning 14205
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10924
70 Dispatching 24487
71 Distributed Inventory 8351
72 Distribution Channel Management 34718
73 Distribution Metrics 9103
74 Distribution Planning 24189
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15204
76 Double Marginalization 52691
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22346
78 Dual 5439
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20598
80 Echelon Inventory 26193
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38252
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49695
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7610
84 Efficient Frontier 25464
85 Engineer-to-Order 31725
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16474
87 Erlang B Formula 9342
88 ETD 8325
89 Ex Works 7830
90 Exception Rate 13482
91 Exponential smoothing 9826
92 External Growth 10068
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9482
94 Field Services 7740
95 Field Warehouse 10426
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8750
97 Fishbone Diagram 14600
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27012
99 Flow Through Distribution 12304
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8169
101 FOB Destination 13018
102 Forward buying 30125
103 Freight Charge 10381
104 Freight Consolidation 7521
105 Gantt Chart 8283
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11724
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29573
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12673
109 Hub 23413
110 Idle Time 8063
111 Import/Export License 8711
112 In Bond Shipment 13938
113 Inbound Logistics 13574
114 Interstate System 10996
115 Inventory Costs 53602
116 Inventory in Transit 16499
117 Inventory Management 54753
118 Inventory Planning System 9839
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22286
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42670
121 JIT 2 18433
122 Job Production 27636
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9112
124 Kanban Squares 6825
125 Laid-Down Cost 10175
126 Lean Office 6097
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10850
128 Lee's Notation 8565
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14218
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37238
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9261
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7497
133 Logistics Channel 22895
134 Logistics Costs 26661
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6683
136 Manifest 10527
137 Marks and Numbers 12596
138 Material Planning 35089
139 Materials Management 26365
140 Milk Run 43094
141 Mini Land Bridge 14412
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9549
143 Modal Split 15412
144 Movement of Goods 19472
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31621
146 North West Corner Method 16858
147 Numeric Distribution 14217
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28542
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48429
150 Operational Efficiency 9940
151 Operational Objectives 13347
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18121
153 Operational Sustainability 27981
154 Operations Management 20721
155 Order Cancellation 10816
156 Order Cycle 18442
157 Order Cycle Time 23510
158 Order Fill Rate 34020
159 Order Fulfillment 6471
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10309
 
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