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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 43201
62 Date Code 17681
63 Days of Supply 19418
64 Dead on Arrival 8883
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7053
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7818
67 Detective Control 8667
68 Devanning 13954
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10559
70 Dispatching 23544
71 Distributed Inventory 8142
72 Distribution Channel Management 33959
73 Distribution Metrics 8660
74 Distribution Planning 23849
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14804
76 Double Marginalization 52119
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21953
78 Dual 5229
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20277
80 Echelon Inventory 25824
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37914
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48741
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7378
84 Efficient Frontier 24899
85 Engineer-to-Order 31202
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15875
87 Erlang B Formula 9050
88 ETD 8056
89 Ex Works 7653
90 Exception Rate 13096
91 Exponential smoothing 9583
92 External Growth 9789
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9179
94 Field Services 7567
95 Field Warehouse 9651
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8383
97 Fishbone Diagram 14274
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26466
99 Flow Through Distribution 12006
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7889
101 FOB Destination 12639
102 Forward buying 29667
103 Freight Charge 10068
104 Freight Consolidation 7289
105 Gantt Chart 8090
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11367
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29124
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12401
109 Hub 22996
110 Idle Time 7838
111 Import/Export License 8450
112 In Bond Shipment 13570
113 Inbound Logistics 13171
114 Interstate System 10758
115 Inventory Costs 52629
116 Inventory in Transit 16050
117 Inventory Management 53745
118 Inventory Planning System 9551
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21853
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41200
121 JIT 2 18183
122 Job Production 26503
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8727
124 Kanban Squares 6588
125 Laid-Down Cost 9867
126 Lean Office 5775
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10717
128 Lee's Notation 8328
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13769
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36190
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8928
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7222
133 Logistics Channel 22520
134 Logistics Costs 26234
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6519
136 Manifest 10197
137 Marks and Numbers 12230
138 Material Planning 34505
139 Materials Management 25987
140 Milk Run 42341
141 Mini Land Bridge 14096
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9142
143 Modal Split 14921
144 Movement of Goods 19079
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31012
146 North West Corner Method 16620
147 Numeric Distribution 13806
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28101
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47789
150 Operational Efficiency 9647
151 Operational Objectives 13081
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17914
153 Operational Sustainability 27424
154 Operations Management 19777
155 Order Cancellation 10372
156 Order Cycle 18132
157 Order Cycle Time 23145
158 Order Fill Rate 33571
159 Order Fulfillment 6260
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10017
 
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