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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 43838
62 Date Code 18047
63 Days of Supply 19683
64 Dead on Arrival 9100
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7216
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8002
67 Detective Control 8813
68 Devanning 14120
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10753
70 Dispatching 24182
71 Distributed Inventory 8267
72 Distribution Channel Management 34459
73 Distribution Metrics 8952
74 Distribution Planning 24071
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15065
76 Double Marginalization 52459
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22163
78 Dual 5371
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20473
80 Echelon Inventory 26026
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38134
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49352
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7523
84 Efficient Frontier 25276
85 Engineer-to-Order 31551
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16229
87 Erlang B Formula 9245
88 ETD 8229
89 Ex Works 7764
90 Exception Rate 13341
91 Exponential smoothing 9740
92 External Growth 9955
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9334
94 Field Services 7673
95 Field Warehouse 9910
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8639
97 Fishbone Diagram 14499
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26818
99 Flow Through Distribution 12199
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8065
101 FOB Destination 12903
102 Forward buying 29916
103 Freight Charge 10232
104 Freight Consolidation 7442
105 Gantt Chart 8212
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11603
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29402
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12573
109 Hub 23262
110 Idle Time 7977
111 Import/Export License 8617
112 In Bond Shipment 13783
113 Inbound Logistics 13433
114 Interstate System 10904
115 Inventory Costs 53259
116 Inventory in Transit 16302
117 Inventory Management 54392
118 Inventory Planning System 9702
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22149
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42166
121 JIT 2 18340
122 Job Production 27235
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8942
124 Kanban Squares 6751
125 Laid-Down Cost 10043
126 Lean Office 5941
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8481
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14063
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36856
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9123
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7369
133 Logistics Channel 22758
134 Logistics Costs 26495
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6620
136 Manifest 10425
137 Marks and Numbers 12465
138 Material Planning 34925
139 Materials Management 26227
140 Milk Run 42865
141 Mini Land Bridge 14308
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9402
143 Modal Split 15264
144 Movement of Goods 19320
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31374
146 North West Corner Method 16773
147 Numeric Distribution 14057
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28389
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48185
150 Operational Efficiency 9847
151 Operational Objectives 13248
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18050
153 Operational Sustainability 27736
154 Operations Management 20406
155 Order Cancellation 10680
156 Order Cycle 18336
157 Order Cycle Time 23399
158 Order Fill Rate 33867
159 Order Fulfillment 6395
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10186
 
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