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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 44366
62 Date Code 18386
63 Days of Supply 19949
64 Dead on Arrival 9429
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7378
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8199
67 Detective Control 8987
68 Devanning 14297
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11054
70 Dispatching 24691
71 Distributed Inventory 8433
72 Distribution Channel Management 35001
73 Distribution Metrics 9245
74 Distribution Planning 24306
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15340
76 Double Marginalization 52905
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22492
78 Dual 5492
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20712
80 Echelon Inventory 26315
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38369
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49992
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7688
84 Efficient Frontier 25631
85 Engineer-to-Order 31887
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16677
87 Erlang B Formula 9424
88 ETD 8397
89 Ex Works 7889
90 Exception Rate 13602
91 Exponential smoothing 9896
92 External Growth 10171
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9596
94 Field Services 7794
95 Field Warehouse 10768
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8893
97 Fishbone Diagram 14697
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27217
99 Flow Through Distribution 12408
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8266
101 FOB Destination 13148
102 Forward buying 30336
103 Freight Charge 10483
104 Freight Consolidation 7594
105 Gantt Chart 8348
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11831
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29701
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12774
109 Hub 23560
110 Idle Time 8140
111 Import/Export License 8805
112 In Bond Shipment 14071
113 Inbound Logistics 13686
114 Interstate System 11090
115 Inventory Costs 53942
116 Inventory in Transit 16640
117 Inventory Management 55077
118 Inventory Planning System 9945
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22415
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43169
121 JIT 2 18522
122 Job Production 28022
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9217
124 Kanban Squares 6920
125 Laid-Down Cost 10303
126 Lean Office 6202
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10900
128 Lee's Notation 8630
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14373
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37492
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9372
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7585
133 Logistics Channel 23015
134 Logistics Costs 26806
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6738
136 Manifest 10635
137 Marks and Numbers 12725
138 Material Planning 35278
139 Materials Management 26486
140 Milk Run 43279
141 Mini Land Bridge 14506
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9671
143 Modal Split 15542
144 Movement of Goods 19595
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31839
146 North West Corner Method 16936
147 Numeric Distribution 14333
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28677
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48674
150 Operational Efficiency 10019
151 Operational Objectives 13447
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18184
153 Operational Sustainability 28200
154 Operations Management 20998
155 Order Cancellation 10924
156 Order Cycle 18534
157 Order Cycle Time 23620
158 Order Fill Rate 34156
159 Order Fulfillment 6539
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10415
 
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