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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 43381
62 Date Code 17763
63 Days of Supply 19497
64 Dead on Arrival 8945
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7089
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7874
67 Detective Control 8698
68 Devanning 14001
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10613
70 Dispatching 23686
71 Distributed Inventory 8174
72 Distribution Channel Management 34100
73 Distribution Metrics 8738
74 Distribution Planning 23921
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14872
76 Double Marginalization 52243
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22009
78 Dual 5280
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20314
80 Echelon Inventory 25878
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37971
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48921
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7423
84 Efficient Frontier 25002
85 Engineer-to-Order 31287
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15981
87 Erlang B Formula 9113
88 ETD 8101
89 Ex Works 7680
90 Exception Rate 13168
91 Exponential smoothing 9623
92 External Growth 9836
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9221
94 Field Services 7590
95 Field Warehouse 9701
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8458
97 Fishbone Diagram 14323
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26558
99 Flow Through Distribution 12065
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7942
101 FOB Destination 12701
102 Forward buying 29744
103 Freight Charge 10113
104 Freight Consolidation 7341
105 Gantt Chart 8122
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11443
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29209
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12443
109 Hub 23075
110 Idle Time 7876
111 Import/Export License 8497
112 In Bond Shipment 13634
113 Inbound Logistics 13239
114 Interstate System 10788
115 Inventory Costs 52812
116 Inventory in Transit 16120
117 Inventory Management 53909
118 Inventory Planning System 9599
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21954
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41481
121 JIT 2 18226
122 Job Production 26718
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8783
124 Kanban Squares 6636
125 Laid-Down Cost 9907
126 Lean Office 5817
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10748
128 Lee's Notation 8372
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13853
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36352
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8974
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7283
133 Logistics Channel 22585
134 Logistics Costs 26308
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6550
136 Manifest 10258
137 Marks and Numbers 12273
138 Material Planning 34610
139 Materials Management 26046
140 Milk Run 42496
141 Mini Land Bridge 14153
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9220
143 Modal Split 15008
144 Movement of Goods 19149
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31102
146 North West Corner Method 16660
147 Numeric Distribution 13875
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28169
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47889
150 Operational Efficiency 9703
151 Operational Objectives 13128
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17946
153 Operational Sustainability 27529
154 Operations Management 19946
155 Order Cancellation 10444
156 Order Cycle 18185
157 Order Cycle Time 23217
158 Order Fill Rate 33662
159 Order Fulfillment 6298
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10054
 
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