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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 43725
62 Date Code 17963
63 Days of Supply 19635
64 Dead on Arrival 9061
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7174
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7967
67 Detective Control 8776
68 Devanning 14087
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10712
70 Dispatching 24026
71 Distributed Inventory 8240
72 Distribution Channel Management 34364
73 Distribution Metrics 8894
74 Distribution Planning 24026
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15007
76 Double Marginalization 52392
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22123
78 Dual 5347
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20427
80 Echelon Inventory 25973
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38085
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49227
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7495
84 Efficient Frontier 25198
85 Engineer-to-Order 31476
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16150
87 Erlang B Formula 9208
88 ETD 8189
89 Ex Works 7739
90 Exception Rate 13287
91 Exponential smoothing 9713
92 External Growth 9919
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9299
94 Field Services 7647
95 Field Warehouse 9790
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8583
97 Fishbone Diagram 14449
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26747
99 Flow Through Distribution 12156
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8033
101 FOB Destination 12849
102 Forward buying 29863
103 Freight Charge 10199
104 Freight Consolidation 7415
105 Gantt Chart 8189
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11558
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29348
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12536
109 Hub 23209
110 Idle Time 7947
111 Import/Export License 8585
112 In Bond Shipment 13744
113 Inbound Logistics 13377
114 Interstate System 10863
115 Inventory Costs 53142
116 Inventory in Transit 16254
117 Inventory Management 54239
118 Inventory Planning System 9672
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22097
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41953
121 JIT 2 18310
122 Job Production 27076
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8901
124 Kanban Squares 6723
125 Laid-Down Cost 10005
126 Lean Office 5904
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10784
128 Lee's Notation 8450
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14002
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36698
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9077
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7345
133 Logistics Channel 22713
134 Logistics Costs 26437
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6600
136 Manifest 10381
137 Marks and Numbers 12401
138 Material Planning 34836
139 Materials Management 26180
140 Milk Run 42773
141 Mini Land Bridge 14257
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9345
143 Modal Split 15191
144 Movement of Goods 19264
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31301
146 North West Corner Method 16740
147 Numeric Distribution 13995
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28318
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48099
150 Operational Efficiency 9809
151 Operational Objectives 13214
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18012
153 Operational Sustainability 27667
154 Operations Management 20267
155 Order Cancellation 10617
156 Order Cycle 18288
157 Order Cycle Time 23347
158 Order Fill Rate 33800
159 Order Fulfillment 6367
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10145
 
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