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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 43666
62 Date Code 17920
63 Days of Supply 19601
64 Dead on Arrival 9040
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7157
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7945
67 Detective Control 8757
68 Devanning 14074
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10690
70 Dispatching 23962
71 Distributed Inventory 8223
72 Distribution Channel Management 34304
73 Distribution Metrics 8863
74 Distribution Planning 24003
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14981
76 Double Marginalization 52365
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22098
78 Dual 5334
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20402
80 Echelon Inventory 25953
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38063
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49166
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7479
84 Efficient Frontier 25160
85 Engineer-to-Order 31436
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16110
87 Erlang B Formula 9180
88 ETD 8168
89 Ex Works 7727
90 Exception Rate 13257
91 Exponential smoothing 9689
92 External Growth 9896
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9280
94 Field Services 7640
95 Field Warehouse 9763
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8557
97 Fishbone Diagram 14429
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26708
99 Flow Through Distribution 12139
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8010
101 FOB Destination 12819
102 Forward buying 29841
103 Freight Charge 10177
104 Freight Consolidation 7397
105 Gantt Chart 8177
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11540
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29316
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12513
109 Hub 23178
110 Idle Time 7932
111 Import/Export License 8568
112 In Bond Shipment 13721
113 Inbound Logistics 13347
114 Interstate System 10846
115 Inventory Costs 53074
116 Inventory in Transit 16225
117 Inventory Management 54166
118 Inventory Planning System 9657
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22071
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41848
121 JIT 2 18289
122 Job Production 26986
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8877
124 Kanban Squares 6708
125 Laid-Down Cost 9970
126 Lean Office 5887
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10778
128 Lee's Notation 8432
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13964
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36607
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9044
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7335
133 Logistics Channel 22676
134 Logistics Costs 26417
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6590
136 Manifest 10358
137 Marks and Numbers 12367
138 Material Planning 34788
139 Materials Management 26144
140 Milk Run 42721
141 Mini Land Bridge 14236
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9320
143 Modal Split 15152
144 Movement of Goods 19238
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31253
146 North West Corner Method 16725
147 Numeric Distribution 13969
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28287
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48056
150 Operational Efficiency 9786
151 Operational Objectives 13192
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17999
153 Operational Sustainability 27639
154 Operations Management 20200
155 Order Cancellation 10581
156 Order Cycle 18261
157 Order Cycle Time 23329
158 Order Fill Rate 33773
159 Order Fulfillment 6357
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10113
 
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