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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 43927
62 Date Code 18083
63 Days of Supply 19717
64 Dead on Arrival 9138
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7237
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8027
67 Detective Control 8842
68 Devanning 14142
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10785
70 Dispatching 24279
71 Distributed Inventory 8288
72 Distribution Channel Management 34522
73 Distribution Metrics 8995
74 Distribution Planning 24100
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15105
76 Double Marginalization 52507
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22194
78 Dual 5386
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20506
80 Echelon Inventory 26072
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38166
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49445
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7546
84 Efficient Frontier 25318
85 Engineer-to-Order 31595
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16276
87 Erlang B Formula 9271
88 ETD 8263
89 Ex Works 7782
90 Exception Rate 13380
91 Exponential smoothing 9763
92 External Growth 9988
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9357
94 Field Services 7693
95 Field Warehouse 10072
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8670
97 Fishbone Diagram 14521
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26867
99 Flow Through Distribution 12229
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8090
101 FOB Destination 12941
102 Forward buying 29960
103 Freight Charge 10254
104 Freight Consolidation 7465
105 Gantt Chart 8230
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11638
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29453
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12602
109 Hub 23300
110 Idle Time 7997
111 Import/Export License 8643
112 In Bond Shipment 13823
113 Inbound Logistics 13475
114 Interstate System 10928
115 Inventory Costs 53349
116 Inventory in Transit 16333
117 Inventory Management 54480
118 Inventory Planning System 9721
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22189
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42311
121 JIT 2 18364
122 Job Production 27340
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8970
124 Kanban Squares 6769
125 Laid-Down Cost 10070
126 Lean Office 5963
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10813
128 Lee's Notation 8503
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14105
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36954
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9161
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7381
133 Logistics Channel 22795
134 Logistics Costs 26538
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6633
136 Manifest 10456
137 Marks and Numbers 12511
138 Material Planning 34964
139 Materials Management 26265
140 Milk Run 42933
141 Mini Land Bridge 14331
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9443
143 Modal Split 15313
144 Movement of Goods 19357
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31428
146 North West Corner Method 16800
147 Numeric Distribution 14107
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28430
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48251
150 Operational Efficiency 9870
151 Operational Objectives 13272
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18072
153 Operational Sustainability 27790
154 Operations Management 20493
155 Order Cancellation 10724
156 Order Cycle 18363
157 Order Cycle Time 23419
158 Order Fill Rate 33905
159 Order Fulfillment 6415
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10216
 
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