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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 43347
62 Date Code 17749
63 Days of Supply 19484
64 Dead on Arrival 8934
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7083
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7866
67 Detective Control 8692
68 Devanning 13993
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10603
70 Dispatching 23655
71 Distributed Inventory 8168
72 Distribution Channel Management 34075
73 Distribution Metrics 8723
74 Distribution Planning 23907
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14864
76 Double Marginalization 52216
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21998
78 Dual 5271
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20304
80 Echelon Inventory 25867
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37963
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48890
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7412
84 Efficient Frontier 24987
85 Engineer-to-Order 31271
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15970
87 Erlang B Formula 9103
88 ETD 8093
89 Ex Works 7677
90 Exception Rate 13156
91 Exponential smoothing 9616
92 External Growth 9831
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9214
94 Field Services 7585
95 Field Warehouse 9694
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8438
97 Fishbone Diagram 14311
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26541
99 Flow Through Distribution 12054
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7930
101 FOB Destination 12691
102 Forward buying 29733
103 Freight Charge 10106
104 Freight Consolidation 7331
105 Gantt Chart 8120
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11429
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29193
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12431
109 Hub 23062
110 Idle Time 7870
111 Import/Export License 8489
112 In Bond Shipment 13624
113 Inbound Logistics 13226
114 Interstate System 10782
115 Inventory Costs 52786
116 Inventory in Transit 16109
117 Inventory Management 53875
118 Inventory Planning System 9590
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21938
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41432
121 JIT 2 18218
122 Job Production 26669
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8771
124 Kanban Squares 6628
125 Laid-Down Cost 9897
126 Lean Office 5811
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10743
128 Lee's Notation 8365
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13837
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36327
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8963
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7279
133 Logistics Channel 22571
134 Logistics Costs 26294
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6542
136 Manifest 10247
137 Marks and Numbers 12267
138 Material Planning 34591
139 Materials Management 26039
140 Milk Run 42467
141 Mini Land Bridge 14142
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9204
143 Modal Split 14994
144 Movement of Goods 19139
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31082
146 North West Corner Method 16654
147 Numeric Distribution 13859
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28155
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47872
150 Operational Efficiency 9691
151 Operational Objectives 13117
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17939
153 Operational Sustainability 27512
154 Operations Management 19911
155 Order Cancellation 10425
156 Order Cycle 18176
157 Order Cycle Time 23201
158 Order Fill Rate 33648
159 Order Fulfillment 6293
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10048
 
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