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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 43863
62 Date Code 18056
63 Days of Supply 19691
64 Dead on Arrival 9111
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7219
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8003
67 Detective Control 8817
68 Devanning 14126
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10762
70 Dispatching 24201
71 Distributed Inventory 8275
72 Distribution Channel Management 34475
73 Distribution Metrics 8964
74 Distribution Planning 24078
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15075
76 Double Marginalization 52472
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22169
78 Dual 5375
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20483
80 Echelon Inventory 26037
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38144
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49376
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7529
84 Efficient Frontier 25285
85 Engineer-to-Order 31563
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16248
87 Erlang B Formula 9252
88 ETD 8239
89 Ex Works 7770
90 Exception Rate 13347
91 Exponential smoothing 9749
92 External Growth 9963
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9340
94 Field Services 7676
95 Field Warehouse 9934
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8643
97 Fishbone Diagram 14503
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26832
99 Flow Through Distribution 12203
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8074
101 FOB Destination 12917
102 Forward buying 29927
103 Freight Charge 10235
104 Freight Consolidation 7447
105 Gantt Chart 8217
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11614
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29411
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12577
109 Hub 23273
110 Idle Time 7981
111 Import/Export License 8622
112 In Bond Shipment 13794
113 Inbound Logistics 13442
114 Interstate System 10908
115 Inventory Costs 53283
116 Inventory in Transit 16309
117 Inventory Management 54420
118 Inventory Planning System 9709
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22156
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42199
121 JIT 2 18345
122 Job Production 27262
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8950
124 Kanban Squares 6753
125 Laid-Down Cost 10050
126 Lean Office 5944
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10803
128 Lee's Notation 8489
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14074
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36888
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9139
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7372
133 Logistics Channel 22767
134 Logistics Costs 26501
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6625
136 Manifest 10433
137 Marks and Numbers 12475
138 Material Planning 34931
139 Materials Management 26237
140 Milk Run 42878
141 Mini Land Bridge 14315
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9409
143 Modal Split 15276
144 Movement of Goods 19332
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31386
146 North West Corner Method 16777
147 Numeric Distribution 14068
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28400
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48206
150 Operational Efficiency 9850
151 Operational Objectives 13253
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18054
153 Operational Sustainability 27750
154 Operations Management 20427
155 Order Cancellation 10695
156 Order Cycle 18341
157 Order Cycle Time 23404
158 Order Fill Rate 33879
159 Order Fulfillment 6399
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10196
 
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