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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 44548
62 Date Code 18536
63 Days of Supply 20017
64 Dead on Arrival 9501
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7430
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8256
67 Detective Control 9056
68 Devanning 14349
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11121
70 Dispatching 24815
71 Distributed Inventory 8471
72 Distribution Channel Management 35147
73 Distribution Metrics 9330
74 Distribution Planning 24385
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15419
76 Double Marginalization 53025
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22572
78 Dual 5533
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20765
80 Echelon Inventory 26446
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38456
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50181
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7737
84 Efficient Frontier 25737
85 Engineer-to-Order 31980
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16808
87 Erlang B Formula 9472
88 ETD 8451
89 Ex Works 7935
90 Exception Rate 13674
91 Exponential smoothing 9941
92 External Growth 10235
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9663
94 Field Services 7831
95 Field Warehouse 11008
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8983
97 Fishbone Diagram 14765
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27340
99 Flow Through Distribution 12478
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8333
101 FOB Destination 13222
102 Forward buying 30421
103 Freight Charge 10526
104 Freight Consolidation 7632
105 Gantt Chart 8383
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11918
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29770
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12842
109 Hub 23641
110 Idle Time 8185
111 Import/Export License 8851
112 In Bond Shipment 14133
113 Inbound Logistics 13755
114 Interstate System 11136
115 Inventory Costs 54096
116 Inventory in Transit 16739
117 Inventory Management 55277
118 Inventory Planning System 9996
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22514
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43440
121 JIT 2 18575
122 Job Production 28265
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9275
124 Kanban Squares 6975
125 Laid-Down Cost 10383
126 Lean Office 6253
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10922
128 Lee's Notation 8662
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14466
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37667
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9444
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7620
133 Logistics Channel 23078
134 Logistics Costs 26883
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6768
136 Manifest 10703
137 Marks and Numbers 12812
138 Material Planning 35379
139 Materials Management 26565
140 Milk Run 43391
141 Mini Land Bridge 14563
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9741
143 Modal Split 15611
144 Movement of Goods 19711
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31948
146 North West Corner Method 16983
147 Numeric Distribution 14403
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28768
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48825
150 Operational Efficiency 10065
151 Operational Objectives 13494
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18222
153 Operational Sustainability 28299
154 Operations Management 21113
155 Order Cancellation 10990
156 Order Cycle 18589
157 Order Cycle Time 23688
158 Order Fill Rate 34239
159 Order Fulfillment 6581
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10482
 
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