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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 44334
62 Date Code 18359
63 Days of Supply 19933
64 Dead on Arrival 9416
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7369
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8185
67 Detective Control 8976
68 Devanning 14286
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11039
70 Dispatching 24669
71 Distributed Inventory 8418
72 Distribution Channel Management 34963
73 Distribution Metrics 9223
74 Distribution Planning 24291
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15320
76 Double Marginalization 52885
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22476
78 Dual 5485
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20695
80 Echelon Inventory 26294
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38352
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49958
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7675
84 Efficient Frontier 25604
85 Engineer-to-Order 31870
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16659
87 Erlang B Formula 9411
88 ETD 8389
89 Ex Works 7882
90 Exception Rate 13582
91 Exponential smoothing 9882
92 External Growth 10158
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9582
94 Field Services 7788
95 Field Warehouse 10720
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8871
97 Fishbone Diagram 14684
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27193
99 Flow Through Distribution 12393
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8248
101 FOB Destination 13131
102 Forward buying 30315
103 Freight Charge 10475
104 Freight Consolidation 7589
105 Gantt Chart 8340
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11816
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29684
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12764
109 Hub 23543
110 Idle Time 8130
111 Import/Export License 8796
112 In Bond Shipment 14056
113 Inbound Logistics 13669
114 Interstate System 11079
115 Inventory Costs 53900
116 Inventory in Transit 16622
117 Inventory Management 55041
118 Inventory Planning System 9932
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22399
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43139
121 JIT 2 18512
122 Job Production 27977
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9208
124 Kanban Squares 6904
125 Laid-Down Cost 10289
126 Lean Office 6190
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10896
128 Lee's Notation 8626
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14354
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37466
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9361
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7578
133 Logistics Channel 23002
134 Logistics Costs 26787
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6730
136 Manifest 10620
137 Marks and Numbers 12711
138 Material Planning 35253
139 Materials Management 26473
140 Milk Run 43254
141 Mini Land Bridge 14495
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9653
143 Modal Split 15525
144 Movement of Goods 19583
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31823
146 North West Corner Method 16925
147 Numeric Distribution 14320
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28660
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48645
150 Operational Efficiency 10006
151 Operational Objectives 13433
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18181
153 Operational Sustainability 28182
154 Operations Management 20973
155 Order Cancellation 10915
156 Order Cycle 18525
157 Order Cycle Time 23604
158 Order Fill Rate 34140
159 Order Fulfillment 6529
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10405
 
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