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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 44487
62 Date Code 18503
63 Days of Supply 19995
64 Dead on Arrival 9474
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7410
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8239
67 Detective Control 9027
68 Devanning 14330
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11092
70 Dispatching 24772
71 Distributed Inventory 8458
72 Distribution Channel Management 35100
73 Distribution Metrics 9297
74 Distribution Planning 24360
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15395
76 Double Marginalization 52983
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22543
78 Dual 5514
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20747
80 Echelon Inventory 26400
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38429
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50119
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7721
84 Efficient Frontier 25702
85 Engineer-to-Order 31951
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16764
87 Erlang B Formula 9460
88 ETD 8431
89 Ex Works 7924
90 Exception Rate 13653
91 Exponential smoothing 9927
92 External Growth 10209
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9636
94 Field Services 7817
95 Field Warehouse 10922
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8950
97 Fishbone Diagram 14743
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27293
99 Flow Through Distribution 12455
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8310
101 FOB Destination 13198
102 Forward buying 30390
103 Freight Charge 10511
104 Freight Consolidation 7616
105 Gantt Chart 8368
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11888
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29750
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12816
109 Hub 23602
110 Idle Time 8165
111 Import/Export License 8833
112 In Bond Shipment 14109
113 Inbound Logistics 13728
114 Interstate System 11117
115 Inventory Costs 54043
116 Inventory in Transit 16702
117 Inventory Management 55205
118 Inventory Planning System 9975
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22485
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43334
121 JIT 2 18555
122 Job Production 28188
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9255
124 Kanban Squares 6959
125 Laid-Down Cost 10358
126 Lean Office 6234
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10917
128 Lee's Notation 8648
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14437
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37612
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9420
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7607
133 Logistics Channel 23057
134 Logistics Costs 26863
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6757
136 Manifest 10677
137 Marks and Numbers 12783
138 Material Planning 35341
139 Materials Management 26541
140 Milk Run 43353
141 Mini Land Bridge 14548
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9717
143 Modal Split 15584
144 Movement of Goods 19670
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31909
146 North West Corner Method 16964
147 Numeric Distribution 14379
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28733
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48786
150 Operational Efficiency 10049
151 Operational Objectives 13480
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18208
153 Operational Sustainability 28273
154 Operations Management 21079
155 Order Cancellation 10966
156 Order Cycle 18566
157 Order Cycle Time 23665
158 Order Fill Rate 34216
159 Order Fulfillment 6567
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10460
 
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