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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 43560
62 Date Code 17856
63 Days of Supply 19560
64 Dead on Arrival 9001
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7126
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7911
67 Detective Control 8736
68 Devanning 14045
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10663
70 Dispatching 23844
71 Distributed Inventory 8206
72 Distribution Channel Management 34234
73 Distribution Metrics 8811
74 Distribution Planning 23970
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14946
76 Double Marginalization 52315
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22063
78 Dual 5313
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20371
80 Echelon Inventory 25918
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38027
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49084
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7453
84 Efficient Frontier 25094
85 Engineer-to-Order 31380
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16058
87 Erlang B Formula 9156
88 ETD 8139
89 Ex Works 7710
90 Exception Rate 13218
91 Exponential smoothing 9662
92 External Growth 9868
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9257
94 Field Services 7617
95 Field Warehouse 9739
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8524
97 Fishbone Diagram 14389
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26642
99 Flow Through Distribution 12106
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7980
101 FOB Destination 12770
102 Forward buying 29810
103 Freight Charge 10148
104 Freight Consolidation 7376
105 Gantt Chart 8156
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11505
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29268
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12482
109 Hub 23137
110 Idle Time 7908
111 Import/Export License 8537
112 In Bond Shipment 13695
113 Inbound Logistics 13297
114 Interstate System 10819
115 Inventory Costs 52971
116 Inventory in Transit 16182
117 Inventory Management 54059
118 Inventory Planning System 9629
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22026
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41702
121 JIT 2 18267
122 Job Production 26888
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8842
124 Kanban Squares 6681
125 Laid-Down Cost 9945
126 Lean Office 5863
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10766
128 Lee's Notation 8409
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13922
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36517
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9010
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7315
133 Logistics Channel 22639
134 Logistics Costs 26373
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6577
136 Manifest 10319
137 Marks and Numbers 12324
138 Material Planning 34720
139 Materials Management 26102
140 Milk Run 42652
141 Mini Land Bridge 14210
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9284
143 Modal Split 15092
144 Movement of Goods 19203
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31196
146 North West Corner Method 16692
147 Numeric Distribution 13932
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28242
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47998
150 Operational Efficiency 9756
151 Operational Objectives 13166
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17979
153 Operational Sustainability 27596
154 Operations Management 20104
155 Order Cancellation 10526
156 Order Cycle 18235
157 Order Cycle Time 23293
158 Order Fill Rate 33730
159 Order Fulfillment 6335
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10088
 
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