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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 43830
62 Date Code 18043
63 Days of Supply 19680
64 Dead on Arrival 9097
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7213
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7999
67 Detective Control 8811
68 Devanning 14119
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10749
70 Dispatching 24175
71 Distributed Inventory 8263
72 Distribution Channel Management 34454
73 Distribution Metrics 8948
74 Distribution Planning 24067
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15061
76 Double Marginalization 52454
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22160
78 Dual 5368
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20471
80 Echelon Inventory 26024
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38130
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49347
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7522
84 Efficient Frontier 25271
85 Engineer-to-Order 31544
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16226
87 Erlang B Formula 9241
88 ETD 8228
89 Ex Works 7762
90 Exception Rate 13334
91 Exponential smoothing 9740
92 External Growth 9954
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9333
94 Field Services 7672
95 Field Warehouse 9899
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8635
97 Fishbone Diagram 14496
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26815
99 Flow Through Distribution 12197
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8064
101 FOB Destination 12902
102 Forward buying 29909
103 Freight Charge 10229
104 Freight Consolidation 7438
105 Gantt Chart 8211
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11601
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29396
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12571
109 Hub 23258
110 Idle Time 7976
111 Import/Export License 8613
112 In Bond Shipment 13780
113 Inbound Logistics 13427
114 Interstate System 10901
115 Inventory Costs 53250
116 Inventory in Transit 16299
117 Inventory Management 54382
118 Inventory Planning System 9700
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22147
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42156
121 JIT 2 18333
122 Job Production 27226
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8939
124 Kanban Squares 6749
125 Laid-Down Cost 10039
126 Lean Office 5939
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8477
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14058
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36848
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9120
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7367
133 Logistics Channel 22756
134 Logistics Costs 26493
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6618
136 Manifest 10421
137 Marks and Numbers 12460
138 Material Planning 34921
139 Materials Management 26224
140 Milk Run 42854
141 Mini Land Bridge 14303
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9395
143 Modal Split 15260
144 Movement of Goods 19317
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31369
146 North West Corner Method 16771
147 Numeric Distribution 14052
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28387
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48179
150 Operational Efficiency 9845
151 Operational Objectives 13246
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18049
153 Operational Sustainability 27734
154 Operations Management 20397
155 Order Cancellation 10677
156 Order Cycle 18333
157 Order Cycle Time 23394
158 Order Fill Rate 33864
159 Order Fulfillment 6393
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10185
 
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