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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 44108
62 Date Code 18199
63 Days of Supply 19810
64 Dead on Arrival 9255
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7300
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8090
67 Detective Control 8897
68 Devanning 14201
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10884
70 Dispatching 24467
71 Distributed Inventory 8342
72 Distribution Channel Management 34690
73 Distribution Metrics 9095
74 Distribution Planning 24178
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15196
76 Double Marginalization 52653
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22309
78 Dual 5434
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20589
80 Echelon Inventory 26182
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38245
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49673
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7605
84 Efficient Frontier 25443
85 Engineer-to-Order 31716
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16436
87 Erlang B Formula 9334
88 ETD 8318
89 Ex Works 7826
90 Exception Rate 13471
91 Exponential smoothing 9819
92 External Growth 10061
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9448
94 Field Services 7735
95 Field Warehouse 10403
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8743
97 Fishbone Diagram 14590
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27000
99 Flow Through Distribution 12296
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8164
101 FOB Destination 13007
102 Forward buying 30085
103 Freight Charge 10346
104 Freight Consolidation 7516
105 Gantt Chart 8279
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11719
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29562
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12667
109 Hub 23399
110 Idle Time 8058
111 Import/Export License 8703
112 In Bond Shipment 13931
113 Inbound Logistics 13567
114 Interstate System 10990
115 Inventory Costs 53569
116 Inventory in Transit 16462
117 Inventory Management 54701
118 Inventory Planning System 9804
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22275
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42628
121 JIT 2 18424
122 Job Production 27607
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9077
124 Kanban Squares 6819
125 Laid-Down Cost 10161
126 Lean Office 6062
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10846
128 Lee's Notation 8556
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14206
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37196
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9249
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7463
133 Logistics Channel 22881
134 Logistics Costs 26647
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6680
136 Manifest 10518
137 Marks and Numbers 12589
138 Material Planning 35074
139 Materials Management 26353
140 Milk Run 43079
141 Mini Land Bridge 14406
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9538
143 Modal Split 15400
144 Movement of Goods 19461
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31603
146 North West Corner Method 16851
147 Numeric Distribution 14207
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28530
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48405
150 Operational Efficiency 9933
151 Operational Objectives 13340
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18113
153 Operational Sustainability 27942
154 Operations Management 20673
155 Order Cancellation 10809
156 Order Cycle 18436
157 Order Cycle Time 23499
158 Order Fill Rate 34008
159 Order Fulfillment 6468
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10301
 
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