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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 44125
62 Date Code 18205
63 Days of Supply 19821
64 Dead on Arrival 9280
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7301
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8096
67 Detective Control 8902
68 Devanning 14204
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10911
70 Dispatching 24483
71 Distributed Inventory 8348
72 Distribution Channel Management 34706
73 Distribution Metrics 9099
74 Distribution Planning 24186
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15202
76 Double Marginalization 52677
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22334
78 Dual 5437
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20597
80 Echelon Inventory 26190
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38249
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49689
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7609
84 Efficient Frontier 25454
85 Engineer-to-Order 31719
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16462
87 Erlang B Formula 9341
88 ETD 8324
89 Ex Works 7828
90 Exception Rate 13478
91 Exponential smoothing 9822
92 External Growth 10064
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9470
94 Field Services 7739
95 Field Warehouse 10419
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8747
97 Fishbone Diagram 14598
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27005
99 Flow Through Distribution 12302
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8166
101 FOB Destination 13016
102 Forward buying 30113
103 Freight Charge 10369
104 Freight Consolidation 7521
105 Gantt Chart 8282
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11721
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29572
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12671
109 Hub 23408
110 Idle Time 8061
111 Import/Export License 8709
112 In Bond Shipment 13937
113 Inbound Logistics 13570
114 Interstate System 10994
115 Inventory Costs 53589
116 Inventory in Transit 16485
117 Inventory Management 54737
118 Inventory Planning System 9828
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22285
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42657
121 JIT 2 18430
122 Job Production 27630
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9100
124 Kanban Squares 6824
125 Laid-Down Cost 10171
126 Lean Office 6086
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10848
128 Lee's Notation 8562
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14211
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37224
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9256
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7486
133 Logistics Channel 22889
134 Logistics Costs 26654
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6681
136 Manifest 10526
137 Marks and Numbers 12595
138 Material Planning 35083
139 Materials Management 26361
140 Milk Run 43090
141 Mini Land Bridge 14410
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9546
143 Modal Split 15408
144 Movement of Goods 19467
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31616
146 North West Corner Method 16856
147 Numeric Distribution 14215
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28538
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48426
150 Operational Efficiency 9937
151 Operational Objectives 13344
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18119
153 Operational Sustainability 27968
154 Operations Management 20705
155 Order Cancellation 10813
156 Order Cycle 18440
157 Order Cycle Time 23506
158 Order Fill Rate 34016
159 Order Fulfillment 6470
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10308
 
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