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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 44126
62 Date Code 18208
63 Days of Supply 19823
64 Dead on Arrival 9284
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7304
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8099
67 Detective Control 8903
68 Devanning 14205
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10916
70 Dispatching 24484
71 Distributed Inventory 8350
72 Distribution Channel Management 34710
73 Distribution Metrics 9100
74 Distribution Planning 24188
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15203
76 Double Marginalization 52681
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22339
78 Dual 5438
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20597
80 Echelon Inventory 26191
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38251
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49692
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7609
84 Efficient Frontier 25459
85 Engineer-to-Order 31721
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16466
87 Erlang B Formula 9341
88 ETD 8325
89 Ex Works 7830
90 Exception Rate 13480
91 Exponential smoothing 9825
92 External Growth 10067
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9474
94 Field Services 7740
95 Field Warehouse 10422
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8748
97 Fishbone Diagram 14599
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27007
99 Flow Through Distribution 12302
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8167
101 FOB Destination 13016
102 Forward buying 30117
103 Freight Charge 10373
104 Freight Consolidation 7521
105 Gantt Chart 8282
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11722
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29572
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12672
109 Hub 23409
110 Idle Time 8062
111 Import/Export License 8709
112 In Bond Shipment 13937
113 Inbound Logistics 13571
114 Interstate System 10995
115 Inventory Costs 53595
116 Inventory in Transit 16491
117 Inventory Management 54744
118 Inventory Planning System 9832
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22285
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42660
121 JIT 2 18431
122 Job Production 27634
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9105
124 Kanban Squares 6824
125 Laid-Down Cost 10172
126 Lean Office 6090
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10848
128 Lee's Notation 8564
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14213
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37229
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9259
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7490
133 Logistics Channel 22893
134 Logistics Costs 26655
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6682
136 Manifest 10526
137 Marks and Numbers 12596
138 Material Planning 35085
139 Materials Management 26362
140 Milk Run 43091
141 Mini Land Bridge 14411
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9548
143 Modal Split 15409
144 Movement of Goods 19468
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31617
146 North West Corner Method 16857
147 Numeric Distribution 14215
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28541
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48427
150 Operational Efficiency 9939
151 Operational Objectives 13346
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18120
153 Operational Sustainability 27973
154 Operations Management 20712
155 Order Cancellation 10816
156 Order Cycle 18441
157 Order Cycle Time 23508
158 Order Fill Rate 34018
159 Order Fulfillment 6470
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10308
 
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