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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 44386
62 Date Code 18408
63 Days of Supply 19956
64 Dead on Arrival 9437
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7383
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8204
67 Detective Control 8994
68 Devanning 14304
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11061
70 Dispatching 24706
71 Distributed Inventory 8434
72 Distribution Channel Management 35024
73 Distribution Metrics 9256
74 Distribution Planning 24319
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15350
76 Double Marginalization 52924
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22503
78 Dual 5495
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20718
80 Echelon Inventory 26331
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38375
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50018
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7693
84 Efficient Frontier 25642
85 Engineer-to-Order 31900
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16688
87 Erlang B Formula 9426
88 ETD 8407
89 Ex Works 7896
90 Exception Rate 13614
91 Exponential smoothing 9901
92 External Growth 10176
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9604
94 Field Services 7797
95 Field Warehouse 10804
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8901
97 Fishbone Diagram 14705
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27233
99 Flow Through Distribution 12417
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8276
101 FOB Destination 13157
102 Forward buying 30347
103 Freight Charge 10492
104 Freight Consolidation 7599
105 Gantt Chart 8351
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11841
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29708
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12785
109 Hub 23568
110 Idle Time 8145
111 Import/Export License 8810
112 In Bond Shipment 14078
113 Inbound Logistics 13693
114 Interstate System 11096
115 Inventory Costs 53961
116 Inventory in Transit 16653
117 Inventory Management 55101
118 Inventory Planning System 9947
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22426
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43202
121 JIT 2 18533
122 Job Production 28044
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9227
124 Kanban Squares 6929
125 Laid-Down Cost 10315
126 Lean Office 6209
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10903
128 Lee's Notation 8632
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14386
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37519
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9383
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7591
133 Logistics Channel 23024
134 Logistics Costs 26817
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6739
136 Manifest 10647
137 Marks and Numbers 12738
138 Material Planning 35292
139 Materials Management 26499
140 Milk Run 43294
141 Mini Land Bridge 14515
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9685
143 Modal Split 15551
144 Movement of Goods 19605
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31851
146 North West Corner Method 16942
147 Numeric Distribution 14347
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28689
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48692
150 Operational Efficiency 10023
151 Operational Objectives 13457
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18192
153 Operational Sustainability 28211
154 Operations Management 21013
155 Order Cancellation 10930
156 Order Cycle 18545
157 Order Cycle Time 23627
158 Order Fill Rate 34168
159 Order Fulfillment 6547
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10421
 
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