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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 44116
62 Date Code 18203
63 Days of Supply 19816
64 Dead on Arrival 9264
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7301
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8091
67 Detective Control 8899
68 Devanning 14202
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10893
70 Dispatching 24475
71 Distributed Inventory 8343
72 Distribution Channel Management 34696
73 Distribution Metrics 9097
74 Distribution Planning 24180
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15198
76 Double Marginalization 52660
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22317
78 Dual 5434
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20590
80 Echelon Inventory 26183
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38247
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49679
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7605
84 Efficient Frontier 25444
85 Engineer-to-Order 31716
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16445
87 Erlang B Formula 9335
88 ETD 8318
89 Ex Works 7827
90 Exception Rate 13475
91 Exponential smoothing 9821
92 External Growth 10061
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9456
94 Field Services 7737
95 Field Warehouse 10407
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8743
97 Fishbone Diagram 14594
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27001
99 Flow Through Distribution 12297
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8165
101 FOB Destination 13008
102 Forward buying 30096
103 Freight Charge 10354
104 Freight Consolidation 7517
105 Gantt Chart 8279
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11720
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29564
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12669
109 Hub 23403
110 Idle Time 8058
111 Import/Export License 8705
112 In Bond Shipment 13932
113 Inbound Logistics 13568
114 Interstate System 10990
115 Inventory Costs 53572
116 Inventory in Transit 16470
117 Inventory Management 54717
118 Inventory Planning System 9812
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22276
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42637
121 JIT 2 18426
122 Job Production 27615
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9085
124 Kanban Squares 6820
125 Laid-Down Cost 10164
126 Lean Office 6070
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10846
128 Lee's Notation 8558
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14207
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37206
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9251
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7470
133 Logistics Channel 22882
134 Logistics Costs 26649
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6680
136 Manifest 10519
137 Marks and Numbers 12589
138 Material Planning 35076
139 Materials Management 26355
140 Milk Run 43081
141 Mini Land Bridge 14406
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9540
143 Modal Split 15400
144 Movement of Goods 19463
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31606
146 North West Corner Method 16853
147 Numeric Distribution 14210
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28535
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48416
150 Operational Efficiency 9933
151 Operational Objectives 13340
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18115
153 Operational Sustainability 27951
154 Operations Management 20685
155 Order Cancellation 10810
156 Order Cycle 18437
157 Order Cycle Time 23501
158 Order Fill Rate 34011
159 Order Fulfillment 6468
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10305
 
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