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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 43940
62 Date Code 18089
63 Days of Supply 19722
64 Dead on Arrival 9144
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7238
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8031
67 Detective Control 8845
68 Devanning 14149
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10790
70 Dispatching 24292
71 Distributed Inventory 8293
72 Distribution Channel Management 34527
73 Distribution Metrics 9002
74 Distribution Planning 24105
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15107
76 Double Marginalization 52514
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22198
78 Dual 5387
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20512
80 Echelon Inventory 26079
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38172
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49453
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7550
84 Efficient Frontier 25323
85 Engineer-to-Order 31604
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16283
87 Erlang B Formula 9275
88 ETD 8264
89 Ex Works 7784
90 Exception Rate 13386
91 Exponential smoothing 9766
92 External Growth 9991
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9357
94 Field Services 7695
95 Field Warehouse 10092
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8677
97 Fishbone Diagram 14523
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26874
99 Flow Through Distribution 12232
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8093
101 FOB Destination 12943
102 Forward buying 29965
103 Freight Charge 10257
104 Freight Consolidation 7470
105 Gantt Chart 8232
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11641
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29456
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12606
109 Hub 23304
110 Idle Time 7999
111 Import/Export License 8645
112 In Bond Shipment 13829
113 Inbound Logistics 13478
114 Interstate System 10932
115 Inventory Costs 53356
116 Inventory in Transit 16338
117 Inventory Management 54491
118 Inventory Planning System 9727
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22194
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42327
121 JIT 2 18368
122 Job Production 27343
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8976
124 Kanban Squares 6771
125 Laid-Down Cost 10075
126 Lean Office 5964
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10817
128 Lee's Notation 8509
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14111
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36969
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9168
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7384
133 Logistics Channel 22799
134 Logistics Costs 26542
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6636
136 Manifest 10460
137 Marks and Numbers 12516
138 Material Planning 34972
139 Materials Management 26270
140 Milk Run 42939
141 Mini Land Bridge 14337
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9448
143 Modal Split 15318
144 Movement of Goods 19362
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31432
146 North West Corner Method 16802
147 Numeric Distribution 14109
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28436
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48260
150 Operational Efficiency 9873
151 Operational Objectives 13277
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18074
153 Operational Sustainability 27795
154 Operations Management 20503
155 Order Cancellation 10729
156 Order Cycle 18366
157 Order Cycle Time 23421
158 Order Fill Rate 33914
159 Order Fulfillment 6418
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10221
 
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