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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 43373
62 Date Code 17758
63 Days of Supply 19494
64 Dead on Arrival 8941
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7089
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7872
67 Detective Control 8696
68 Devanning 13999
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10610
70 Dispatching 23674
71 Distributed Inventory 8172
72 Distribution Channel Management 34091
73 Distribution Metrics 8732
74 Distribution Planning 23919
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14871
76 Double Marginalization 52231
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22005
78 Dual 5276
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20310
80 Echelon Inventory 25875
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37969
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48909
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7419
84 Efficient Frontier 24996
85 Engineer-to-Order 31281
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15978
87 Erlang B Formula 9110
88 ETD 8099
89 Ex Works 7679
90 Exception Rate 13164
91 Exponential smoothing 9621
92 External Growth 9835
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9219
94 Field Services 7588
95 Field Warehouse 9698
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8451
97 Fishbone Diagram 14317
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26553
99 Flow Through Distribution 12062
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7937
101 FOB Destination 12697
102 Forward buying 29740
103 Freight Charge 10110
104 Freight Consolidation 7336
105 Gantt Chart 8122
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11439
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29204
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12439
109 Hub 23072
110 Idle Time 7875
111 Import/Export License 8494
112 In Bond Shipment 13631
113 Inbound Logistics 13236
114 Interstate System 10787
115 Inventory Costs 52800
116 Inventory in Transit 16115
117 Inventory Management 53898
118 Inventory Planning System 9597
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21947
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41464
121 JIT 2 18224
122 Job Production 26701
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8779
124 Kanban Squares 6634
125 Laid-Down Cost 9902
126 Lean Office 5815
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10747
128 Lee's Notation 8367
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13847
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36344
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8969
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7282
133 Logistics Channel 22580
134 Logistics Costs 26307
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6547
136 Manifest 10253
137 Marks and Numbers 12272
138 Material Planning 34603
139 Materials Management 26042
140 Milk Run 42485
141 Mini Land Bridge 14149
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9216
143 Modal Split 15002
144 Movement of Goods 19148
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31094
146 North West Corner Method 16659
147 Numeric Distribution 13868
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28162
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47884
150 Operational Efficiency 9698
151 Operational Objectives 13124
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17945
153 Operational Sustainability 27520
154 Operations Management 19934
155 Order Cancellation 10439
156 Order Cycle 18182
157 Order Cycle Time 23214
158 Order Fill Rate 33657
159 Order Fulfillment 6297
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10054
 
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