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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 44552
62 Date Code 18539
63 Days of Supply 20018
64 Dead on Arrival 9501
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7430
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8256
67 Detective Control 9057
68 Devanning 14349
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11121
70 Dispatching 24817
71 Distributed Inventory 8472
72 Distribution Channel Management 35151
73 Distribution Metrics 9330
74 Distribution Planning 24387
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15419
76 Double Marginalization 53025
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22574
78 Dual 5535
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20767
80 Echelon Inventory 26451
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38458
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50189
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7737
84 Efficient Frontier 25738
85 Engineer-to-Order 31982
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16810
87 Erlang B Formula 9472
88 ETD 8451
89 Ex Works 7935
90 Exception Rate 13677
91 Exponential smoothing 9941
92 External Growth 10236
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9664
94 Field Services 7833
95 Field Warehouse 11012
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8986
97 Fishbone Diagram 14767
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27343
99 Flow Through Distribution 12481
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8335
101 FOB Destination 13224
102 Forward buying 30425
103 Freight Charge 10526
104 Freight Consolidation 7632
105 Gantt Chart 8384
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11920
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29773
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12843
109 Hub 23643
110 Idle Time 8189
111 Import/Export License 8852
112 In Bond Shipment 14134
113 Inbound Logistics 13755
114 Interstate System 11136
115 Inventory Costs 54101
116 Inventory in Transit 16741
117 Inventory Management 55281
118 Inventory Planning System 9997
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22515
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43444
121 JIT 2 18576
122 Job Production 28270
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9276
124 Kanban Squares 6977
125 Laid-Down Cost 10385
126 Lean Office 6253
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10922
128 Lee's Notation 8664
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14469
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37671
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9444
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7620
133 Logistics Channel 23079
134 Logistics Costs 26885
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6770
136 Manifest 10703
137 Marks and Numbers 12813
138 Material Planning 35379
139 Materials Management 26566
140 Milk Run 43391
141 Mini Land Bridge 14564
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9742
143 Modal Split 15613
144 Movement of Goods 19713
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31948
146 North West Corner Method 16983
147 Numeric Distribution 14403
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28769
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48826
150 Operational Efficiency 10066
151 Operational Objectives 13495
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18222
153 Operational Sustainability 28301
154 Operations Management 21115
155 Order Cancellation 10990
156 Order Cycle 18590
157 Order Cycle Time 23689
158 Order Fill Rate 34244
159 Order Fulfillment 6583
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10482
 
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