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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 44294
62 Date Code 18331
63 Days of Supply 19915
64 Dead on Arrival 9399
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7353
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8171
67 Detective Control 8960
68 Devanning 14270
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11021
70 Dispatching 24632
71 Distributed Inventory 8407
72 Distribution Channel Management 34919
73 Distribution Metrics 9203
74 Distribution Planning 24269
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15299
76 Double Marginalization 52857
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22459
78 Dual 5475
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20678
80 Echelon Inventory 26274
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38332
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49911
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7666
84 Efficient Frontier 25586
85 Engineer-to-Order 31846
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16630
87 Erlang B Formula 9399
88 ETD 8374
89 Ex Works 7877
90 Exception Rate 13564
91 Exponential smoothing 9871
92 External Growth 10143
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9571
94 Field Services 7778
95 Field Warehouse 10667
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8854
97 Fishbone Diagram 14673
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27160
99 Flow Through Distribution 12376
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8234
101 FOB Destination 13117
102 Forward buying 30289
103 Freight Charge 10458
104 Freight Consolidation 7578
105 Gantt Chart 8331
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11800
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29664
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12750
109 Hub 23525
110 Idle Time 8118
111 Import/Export License 8780
112 In Bond Shipment 14031
113 Inbound Logistics 13657
114 Interstate System 11063
115 Inventory Costs 53848
116 Inventory in Transit 16601
117 Inventory Management 54994
118 Inventory Planning System 9917
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22378
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43084
121 JIT 2 18499
122 Job Production 27910
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9194
124 Kanban Squares 6888
125 Laid-Down Cost 10273
126 Lean Office 6174
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10890
128 Lee's Notation 8614
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14332
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37433
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9344
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7566
133 Logistics Channel 22981
134 Logistics Costs 26755
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6722
136 Manifest 10604
137 Marks and Numbers 12692
138 Material Planning 35228
139 Materials Management 26452
140 Milk Run 43225
141 Mini Land Bridge 14476
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9638
143 Modal Split 15502
144 Movement of Goods 19557
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31793
146 North West Corner Method 16912
147 Numeric Distribution 14302
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28640
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48601
150 Operational Efficiency 9996
151 Operational Objectives 13416
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18167
153 Operational Sustainability 28157
154 Operations Management 20948
155 Order Cancellation 10896
156 Order Cycle 18508
157 Order Cycle Time 23587
158 Order Fill Rate 34126
159 Order Fulfillment 6519
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10385
 
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