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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 41589
62 Date Code 16899
63 Days of Supply 18893
64 Dead on Arrival 8354
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 6767
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7398
67 Detective Control 8359
68 Devanning 13514
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10040
70 Dispatching 22066
71 Distributed Inventory 7821
72 Distribution Channel Management 32640
73 Distribution Metrics 8030
74 Distribution Planning 23347
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14220
76 Double Marginalization 51203
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21432
78 Dual 4895
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 19934
80 Echelon Inventory 25414
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37160
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 47076
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 6991
84 Efficient Frontier 24118
85 Engineer-to-Order 30387
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15073
87 Erlang B Formula 8610
88 ETD 7695
89 Ex Works 7342
90 Exception Rate 12484
91 Exponential smoothing 9208
92 External Growth 9387
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 8820
94 Field Services 7306
95 Field Warehouse 9293
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 7744
97 Fishbone Diagram 13781
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 25621
99 Flow Through Distribution 11546
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7481
101 FOB Destination 12101
102 Forward buying 28996
103 Freight Charge 9667
104 Freight Consolidation 6910
105 Gantt Chart 7769
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 10852
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 28143
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12005
109 Hub 22335
110 Idle Time 7477
111 Import/Export License 8028
112 In Bond Shipment 12933
113 Inbound Logistics 12546
114 Interstate System 10460
115 Inventory Costs 50889
116 Inventory in Transit 15381
117 Inventory Management 52299
118 Inventory Planning System 9057
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21080
120 JIT (Just In Time) 38578
121 JIT 2 17832
122 Job Production 25030
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8271
124 Kanban Squares 6288
125 Laid-Down Cost 9317
126 Lean Office 5479
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10511
128 Lee's Notation 7939
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13084
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 34793
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8444
132 Linear and Logistics Model 6856
133 Logistics Channel 21977
134 Logistics Costs 25525
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6187
136 Manifest 9645
137 Marks and Numbers 11742
138 Material Planning 33455
139 Materials Management 25350
140 Milk Run 40781
141 Mini Land Bridge 13642
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 8669
143 Modal Split 14288
144 Movement of Goods 18421
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30207
146 North West Corner Method 16253
147 Numeric Distribution 13149
148 One Level Distribution Channel 27563
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 46894
150 Operational Efficiency 9177
151 Operational Objectives 12604
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17554
153 Operational Sustainability 26637
154 Operations Management 18288
155 Order Cancellation 9773
156 Order Cycle 17707
157 Order Cycle Time 22524
158 Order Fill Rate 32862
159 Order Fulfillment 5921
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9650
 
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