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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 44072
62 Date Code 18180
63 Days of Supply 19793
64 Dead on Arrival 9208
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7284
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8081
67 Detective Control 8884
68 Devanning 14190
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10839
70 Dispatching 24434
71 Distributed Inventory 8332
72 Distribution Channel Management 34654
73 Distribution Metrics 9080
74 Distribution Planning 24163
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15177
76 Double Marginalization 52601
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22255
78 Dual 5426
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20576
80 Echelon Inventory 26161
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38226
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49616
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7590
84 Efficient Frontier 25423
85 Engineer-to-Order 31695
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16381
87 Erlang B Formula 9326
88 ETD 8308
89 Ex Works 7818
90 Exception Rate 13450
91 Exponential smoothing 9809
92 External Growth 10043
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9399
94 Field Services 7726
95 Field Warehouse 10362
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8732
97 Fishbone Diagram 14577
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26971
99 Flow Through Distribution 12281
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8145
101 FOB Destination 12994
102 Forward buying 30037
103 Freight Charge 10298
104 Freight Consolidation 7505
105 Gantt Chart 8271
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11699
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29536
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12652
109 Hub 23380
110 Idle Time 8045
111 Import/Export License 8687
112 In Bond Shipment 13912
113 Inbound Logistics 13547
114 Interstate System 10978
115 Inventory Costs 53525
116 Inventory in Transit 16408
117 Inventory Management 54635
118 Inventory Planning System 9757
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22255
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42573
121 JIT 2 18409
122 Job Production 27547
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9031
124 Kanban Squares 6811
125 Laid-Down Cost 10137
126 Lean Office 6012
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10842
128 Lee's Notation 8545
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14188
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37136
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9235
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7415
133 Logistics Channel 22867
134 Logistics Costs 26622
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6670
136 Manifest 10505
137 Marks and Numbers 12575
138 Material Planning 35049
139 Materials Management 26331
140 Milk Run 43055
141 Mini Land Bridge 14392
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9518
143 Modal Split 15385
144 Movement of Goods 19439
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31566
146 North West Corner Method 16841
147 Numeric Distribution 14184
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28507
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48371
150 Operational Efficiency 9919
151 Operational Objectives 13323
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18107
153 Operational Sustainability 27890
154 Operations Management 20614
155 Order Cancellation 10793
156 Order Cycle 18420
157 Order Cycle Time 23482
158 Order Fill Rate 33984
159 Order Fulfillment 6454
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10281
 
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