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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 44447
62 Date Code 18474
63 Days of Supply 19981
64 Dead on Arrival 9467
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7402
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8229
67 Detective Control 9017
68 Devanning 14325
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11084
70 Dispatching 24750
71 Distributed Inventory 8453
72 Distribution Channel Management 35077
73 Distribution Metrics 9283
74 Distribution Planning 24349
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15385
76 Double Marginalization 52968
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22531
78 Dual 5508
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20738
80 Echelon Inventory 26372
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38407
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50083
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7715
84 Efficient Frontier 25680
85 Engineer-to-Order 31934
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16736
87 Erlang B Formula 9448
88 ETD 8422
89 Ex Works 7915
90 Exception Rate 13643
91 Exponential smoothing 9919
92 External Growth 10199
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9624
94 Field Services 7810
95 Field Warehouse 10890
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8934
97 Fishbone Diagram 14730
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27276
99 Flow Through Distribution 12443
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8297
101 FOB Destination 13176
102 Forward buying 30373
103 Freight Charge 10501
104 Freight Consolidation 7609
105 Gantt Chart 8364
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11871
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29736
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12803
109 Hub 23591
110 Idle Time 8159
111 Import/Export License 8825
112 In Bond Shipment 14095
113 Inbound Logistics 13714
114 Interstate System 11109
115 Inventory Costs 54017
116 Inventory in Transit 16686
117 Inventory Management 55172
118 Inventory Planning System 9964
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22467
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43276
121 JIT 2 18549
122 Job Production 28143
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9245
124 Kanban Squares 6948
125 Laid-Down Cost 10343
126 Lean Office 6228
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10910
128 Lee's Notation 8643
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14420
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37578
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9410
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7602
133 Logistics Channel 23046
134 Logistics Costs 26846
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6752
136 Manifest 10668
137 Marks and Numbers 12773
138 Material Planning 35324
139 Materials Management 26523
140 Milk Run 43330
141 Mini Land Bridge 14538
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9705
143 Modal Split 15572
144 Movement of Goods 19639
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31892
146 North West Corner Method 16956
147 Numeric Distribution 14363
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28720
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48757
150 Operational Efficiency 10042
151 Operational Objectives 13473
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18199
153 Operational Sustainability 28250
154 Operations Management 21054
155 Order Cancellation 10952
156 Order Cycle 18559
157 Order Cycle Time 23650
158 Order Fill Rate 34194
159 Order Fulfillment 6561
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10449
 
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