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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 43534
62 Date Code 17842
63 Days of Supply 19552
64 Dead on Arrival 8996
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7121
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7906
67 Detective Control 8731
68 Devanning 14035
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10656
70 Dispatching 23820
71 Distributed Inventory 8203
72 Distribution Channel Management 34211
73 Distribution Metrics 8804
74 Distribution Planning 23961
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14935
76 Double Marginalization 52305
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22054
78 Dual 5310
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20364
80 Echelon Inventory 25913
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38018
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49059
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7449
84 Efficient Frontier 25082
85 Engineer-to-Order 31364
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16049
87 Erlang B Formula 9150
88 ETD 8129
89 Ex Works 7707
90 Exception Rate 13211
91 Exponential smoothing 9657
92 External Growth 9866
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9252
94 Field Services 7616
95 Field Warehouse 9734
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8514
97 Fishbone Diagram 14381
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26635
99 Flow Through Distribution 12100
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7977
101 FOB Destination 12763
102 Forward buying 29803
103 Freight Charge 10142
104 Freight Consolidation 7370
105 Gantt Chart 8149
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11498
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29254
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12477
109 Hub 23130
110 Idle Time 7904
111 Import/Export License 8530
112 In Bond Shipment 13685
113 Inbound Logistics 13283
114 Interstate System 10816
115 Inventory Costs 52946
116 Inventory in Transit 16173
117 Inventory Management 54032
118 Inventory Planning System 9626
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22019
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41667
121 JIT 2 18264
122 Job Production 26869
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8837
124 Kanban Squares 6677
125 Laid-Down Cost 9934
126 Lean Office 5857
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10765
128 Lee's Notation 8402
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13911
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36506
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9005
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7314
133 Logistics Channel 22629
134 Logistics Costs 26362
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6567
136 Manifest 10309
137 Marks and Numbers 12318
138 Material Planning 34710
139 Materials Management 26094
140 Milk Run 42633
141 Mini Land Bridge 14203
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9277
143 Modal Split 15080
144 Movement of Goods 19196
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31186
146 North West Corner Method 16684
147 Numeric Distribution 13924
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28227
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47985
150 Operational Efficiency 9749
151 Operational Objectives 13161
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17973
153 Operational Sustainability 27587
154 Operations Management 20082
155 Order Cancellation 10512
156 Order Cycle 18226
157 Order Cycle Time 23278
158 Order Fill Rate 33723
159 Order Fulfillment 6332
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10084
 
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