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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 43476
62 Date Code 17815
63 Days of Supply 19536
64 Dead on Arrival 8978
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7114
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7896
67 Detective Control 8724
68 Devanning 14026
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10640
70 Dispatching 23768
71 Distributed Inventory 8192
72 Distribution Channel Management 34165
73 Distribution Metrics 8782
74 Distribution Planning 23947
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14913
76 Double Marginalization 52289
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22039
78 Dual 5303
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20349
80 Echelon Inventory 25901
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38005
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49019
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7440
84 Efficient Frontier 25060
85 Engineer-to-Order 31341
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16021
87 Erlang B Formula 9143
88 ETD 8119
89 Ex Works 7694
90 Exception Rate 13200
91 Exponential smoothing 9647
92 External Growth 9857
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9241
94 Field Services 7606
95 Field Warehouse 9727
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8493
97 Fishbone Diagram 14362
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26610
99 Flow Through Distribution 12092
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7962
101 FOB Destination 12737
102 Forward buying 29787
103 Freight Charge 10132
104 Freight Consolidation 7360
105 Gantt Chart 8140
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11486
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29242
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12467
109 Hub 23111
110 Idle Time 7894
111 Import/Export License 8519
112 In Bond Shipment 13668
113 Inbound Logistics 13266
114 Interstate System 10803
115 Inventory Costs 52902
116 Inventory in Transit 16159
117 Inventory Management 53995
118 Inventory Planning System 9618
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22002
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41610
121 JIT 2 18251
122 Job Production 26817
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8818
124 Kanban Squares 6663
125 Laid-Down Cost 9928
126 Lean Office 5844
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10759
128 Lee's Notation 8393
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13894
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36459
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8994
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7303
133 Logistics Channel 22613
134 Logistics Costs 26348
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6563
136 Manifest 10292
137 Marks and Numbers 12302
138 Material Planning 34678
139 Materials Management 26077
140 Milk Run 42587
141 Mini Land Bridge 14187
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9258
143 Modal Split 15061
144 Movement of Goods 19185
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31167
146 North West Corner Method 16673
147 Numeric Distribution 13904
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28204
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47954
150 Operational Efficiency 9739
151 Operational Objectives 13151
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17964
153 Operational Sustainability 27567
154 Operations Management 20039
155 Order Cancellation 10486
156 Order Cycle 18210
157 Order Cycle Time 23262
158 Order Fill Rate 33703
159 Order Fulfillment 6321
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10070
 
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