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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 44423
62 Date Code 18452
63 Days of Supply 19973
64 Dead on Arrival 9455
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7395
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8218
67 Detective Control 9010
68 Devanning 14316
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11075
70 Dispatching 24734
71 Distributed Inventory 8447
72 Distribution Channel Management 35056
73 Distribution Metrics 9270
74 Distribution Planning 24334
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15374
76 Double Marginalization 52954
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22521
78 Dual 5502
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20730
80 Echelon Inventory 26355
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38396
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50060
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7710
84 Efficient Frontier 25663
85 Engineer-to-Order 31918
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16719
87 Erlang B Formula 9443
88 ETD 8414
89 Ex Works 7910
90 Exception Rate 13633
91 Exponential smoothing 9915
92 External Growth 10192
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9618
94 Field Services 7804
95 Field Warehouse 10857
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8919
97 Fishbone Diagram 14723
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27261
99 Flow Through Distribution 12431
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8288
101 FOB Destination 13167
102 Forward buying 30362
103 Freight Charge 10499
104 Freight Consolidation 7605
105 Gantt Chart 8356
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11861
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29722
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12798
109 Hub 23582
110 Idle Time 8154
111 Import/Export License 8820
112 In Bond Shipment 14087
113 Inbound Logistics 13709
114 Interstate System 11103
115 Inventory Costs 53992
116 Inventory in Transit 16677
117 Inventory Management 55148
118 Inventory Planning System 9959
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22451
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43246
121 JIT 2 18541
122 Job Production 28105
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9240
124 Kanban Squares 6943
125 Laid-Down Cost 10335
126 Lean Office 6217
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10907
128 Lee's Notation 8640
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14409
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37560
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9399
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7596
133 Logistics Channel 23040
134 Logistics Costs 26839
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6750
136 Manifest 10662
137 Marks and Numbers 12765
138 Material Planning 35309
139 Materials Management 26514
140 Milk Run 43320
141 Mini Land Bridge 14530
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9700
143 Modal Split 15565
144 Movement of Goods 19627
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31878
146 North West Corner Method 16950
147 Numeric Distribution 14359
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28712
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48738
150 Operational Efficiency 10038
151 Operational Objectives 13466
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18196
153 Operational Sustainability 28241
154 Operations Management 21040
155 Order Cancellation 10943
156 Order Cycle 18551
157 Order Cycle Time 23643
158 Order Fill Rate 34182
159 Order Fulfillment 6558
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10442
 
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