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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 43979
62 Date Code 18114
63 Days of Supply 19745
64 Dead on Arrival 9162
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7254
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8046
67 Detective Control 8857
68 Devanning 14159
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10803
70 Dispatching 24331
71 Distributed Inventory 8299
72 Distribution Channel Management 34558
73 Distribution Metrics 9020
74 Distribution Planning 24126
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15127
76 Double Marginalization 52537
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22216
78 Dual 5398
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20526
80 Echelon Inventory 26097
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38185
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49486
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7561
84 Efficient Frontier 25355
85 Engineer-to-Order 31627
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16312
87 Erlang B Formula 9293
88 ETD 8273
89 Ex Works 7790
90 Exception Rate 13404
91 Exponential smoothing 9774
92 External Growth 10008
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9372
94 Field Services 7703
95 Field Warehouse 10170
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8688
97 Fishbone Diagram 14538
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26898
99 Flow Through Distribution 12244
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8109
101 FOB Destination 12956
102 Forward buying 29982
103 Freight Charge 10266
104 Freight Consolidation 7479
105 Gantt Chart 8244
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11653
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29473
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12617
109 Hub 23325
110 Idle Time 8009
111 Import/Export License 8656
112 In Bond Shipment 13852
113 Inbound Logistics 13492
114 Interstate System 10946
115 Inventory Costs 53389
116 Inventory in Transit 16355
117 Inventory Management 54524
118 Inventory Planning System 9733
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22213
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42389
121 JIT 2 18380
122 Job Production 27394
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8991
124 Kanban Squares 6783
125 Laid-Down Cost 10093
126 Lean Office 5973
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10827
128 Lee's Notation 8516
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14128
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37025
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9184
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7395
133 Logistics Channel 22816
134 Logistics Costs 26560
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6644
136 Manifest 10472
137 Marks and Numbers 12538
138 Material Planning 34990
139 Materials Management 26288
140 Milk Run 42968
141 Mini Land Bridge 14352
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9467
143 Modal Split 15337
144 Movement of Goods 19378
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31466
146 North West Corner Method 16810
147 Numeric Distribution 14130
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28453
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48291
150 Operational Efficiency 9887
151 Operational Objectives 13288
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18083
153 Operational Sustainability 27819
154 Operations Management 20527
155 Order Cancellation 10742
156 Order Cycle 18378
157 Order Cycle Time 23434
158 Order Fill Rate 33933
159 Order Fulfillment 6431
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10238
 
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