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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 44228
62 Date Code 18281
63 Days of Supply 19876
64 Dead on Arrival 9357
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7333
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8142
67 Detective Control 8932
68 Devanning 14240
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10995
70 Dispatching 24579
71 Distributed Inventory 8381
72 Distribution Channel Management 34829
73 Distribution Metrics 9159
74 Distribution Planning 24237
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15258
76 Double Marginalization 52810
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22423
78 Dual 5462
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20645
80 Echelon Inventory 26245
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38302
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49816
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7639
84 Efficient Frontier 25546
85 Engineer-to-Order 31806
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16576
87 Erlang B Formula 9374
88 ETD 8352
89 Ex Works 7857
90 Exception Rate 13530
91 Exponential smoothing 9847
92 External Growth 10109
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9544
94 Field Services 7763
95 Field Warehouse 10578
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8812
97 Fishbone Diagram 14640
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27103
99 Flow Through Distribution 12346
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8204
101 FOB Destination 13073
102 Forward buying 30235
103 Freight Charge 10435
104 Freight Consolidation 7553
105 Gantt Chart 8313
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11766
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29628
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12723
109 Hub 23479
110 Idle Time 8094
111 Import/Export License 8749
112 In Bond Shipment 14000
113 Inbound Logistics 13623
114 Interstate System 11033
115 Inventory Costs 53747
116 Inventory in Transit 16569
117 Inventory Management 54916
118 Inventory Planning System 9895
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22342
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42924
121 JIT 2 18472
122 Job Production 27810
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9168
124 Kanban Squares 6860
125 Laid-Down Cost 10232
126 Lean Office 6146
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10873
128 Lee's Notation 8589
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14283
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37369
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9310
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7548
133 Logistics Channel 22955
134 Logistics Costs 26728
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6709
136 Manifest 10569
137 Marks and Numbers 12646
138 Material Planning 35180
139 Materials Management 26411
140 Milk Run 43168
141 Mini Land Bridge 14448
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9601
143 Modal Split 15472
144 Movement of Goods 19527
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31731
146 North West Corner Method 16891
147 Numeric Distribution 14264
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28598
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48521
150 Operational Efficiency 9972
151 Operational Objectives 13386
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18149
153 Operational Sustainability 28100
154 Operations Management 20889
155 Order Cancellation 10863
156 Order Cycle 18478
157 Order Cycle Time 23554
158 Order Fill Rate 34078
159 Order Fulfillment 6496
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10351
 
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