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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 43989
62 Date Code 18119
63 Days of Supply 19748
64 Dead on Arrival 9168
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7257
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8049
67 Detective Control 8861
68 Devanning 14164
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10809
70 Dispatching 24341
71 Distributed Inventory 8302
72 Distribution Channel Management 34566
73 Distribution Metrics 9025
74 Distribution Planning 24127
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15131
76 Double Marginalization 52547
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22220
78 Dual 5401
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20531
80 Echelon Inventory 26105
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38191
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49499
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7563
84 Efficient Frontier 25364
85 Engineer-to-Order 31631
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16316
87 Erlang B Formula 9296
88 ETD 8276
89 Ex Works 7792
90 Exception Rate 13406
91 Exponential smoothing 9778
92 External Growth 10011
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9374
94 Field Services 7706
95 Field Warehouse 10192
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8695
97 Fishbone Diagram 14544
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26906
99 Flow Through Distribution 12250
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8112
101 FOB Destination 12958
102 Forward buying 29989
103 Freight Charge 10269
104 Freight Consolidation 7483
105 Gantt Chart 8248
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11659
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29481
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12622
109 Hub 23330
110 Idle Time 8012
111 Import/Export License 8660
112 In Bond Shipment 13859
113 Inbound Logistics 13499
114 Interstate System 10947
115 Inventory Costs 53403
116 Inventory in Transit 16361
117 Inventory Management 54541
118 Inventory Planning System 9735
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22219
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42409
121 JIT 2 18384
122 Job Production 27411
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8993
124 Kanban Squares 6785
125 Laid-Down Cost 10097
126 Lean Office 5976
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10828
128 Lee's Notation 8518
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14134
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37039
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9192
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7397
133 Logistics Channel 22821
134 Logistics Costs 26563
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6645
136 Manifest 10478
137 Marks and Numbers 12542
138 Material Planning 34995
139 Materials Management 26294
140 Milk Run 42983
141 Mini Land Bridge 14357
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9474
143 Modal Split 15340
144 Movement of Goods 19384
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31473
146 North West Corner Method 16812
147 Numeric Distribution 14135
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28457
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48300
150 Operational Efficiency 9891
151 Operational Objectives 13289
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18083
153 Operational Sustainability 27826
154 Operations Management 20537
155 Order Cancellation 10748
156 Order Cycle 18379
157 Order Cycle Time 23438
158 Order Fill Rate 33937
159 Order Fulfillment 6431
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10243
 
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