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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 44051
62 Date Code 18160
63 Days of Supply 19782
64 Dead on Arrival 9197
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7275
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8069
67 Detective Control 8878
68 Devanning 14179
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10829
70 Dispatching 24406
71 Distributed Inventory 8319
72 Distribution Channel Management 34641
73 Distribution Metrics 9062
74 Distribution Planning 24154
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15164
76 Double Marginalization 52590
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22244
78 Dual 5419
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20564
80 Echelon Inventory 26146
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38214
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49588
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7580
84 Efficient Frontier 25406
85 Engineer-to-Order 31677
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16364
87 Erlang B Formula 9314
88 ETD 8298
89 Ex Works 7808
90 Exception Rate 13437
91 Exponential smoothing 9797
92 External Growth 10032
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9395
94 Field Services 7719
95 Field Warehouse 10321
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8717
97 Fishbone Diagram 14567
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26952
99 Flow Through Distribution 12274
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8135
101 FOB Destination 12981
102 Forward buying 30025
103 Freight Charge 10291
104 Freight Consolidation 7494
105 Gantt Chart 8264
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11689
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29522
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12642
109 Hub 23367
110 Idle Time 8035
111 Import/Export License 8679
112 In Bond Shipment 13893
113 Inbound Logistics 13539
114 Interstate System 10967
115 Inventory Costs 53482
116 Inventory in Transit 16396
117 Inventory Management 54609
118 Inventory Planning System 9750
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22246
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42524
121 JIT 2 18402
122 Job Production 27511
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9018
124 Kanban Squares 6806
125 Laid-Down Cost 10126
126 Lean Office 6002
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10834
128 Lee's Notation 8537
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14171
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37117
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9219
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7407
133 Logistics Channel 22857
134 Logistics Costs 26609
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6658
136 Manifest 10498
137 Marks and Numbers 12565
138 Material Planning 35031
139 Materials Management 26317
140 Milk Run 43038
141 Mini Land Bridge 14383
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9504
143 Modal Split 15371
144 Movement of Goods 19415
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31540
146 North West Corner Method 16830
147 Numeric Distribution 14169
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28494
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48349
150 Operational Efficiency 9911
151 Operational Objectives 13313
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18098
153 Operational Sustainability 27874
154 Operations Management 20600
155 Order Cancellation 10778
156 Order Cycle 18406
157 Order Cycle Time 23468
158 Order Fill Rate 33965
159 Order Fulfillment 6447
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10275
 
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