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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 44017
62 Date Code 18142
63 Days of Supply 19762
64 Dead on Arrival 9183
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7268
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8058
67 Detective Control 8869
68 Devanning 14172
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10818
70 Dispatching 24373
71 Distributed Inventory 8310
72 Distribution Channel Management 34600
73 Distribution Metrics 9040
74 Distribution Planning 24138
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15152
76 Double Marginalization 52566
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22232
78 Dual 5407
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20547
80 Echelon Inventory 26126
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38202
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49534
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7572
84 Efficient Frontier 25380
85 Engineer-to-Order 31651
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16339
87 Erlang B Formula 9307
88 ETD 8286
89 Ex Works 7801
90 Exception Rate 13422
91 Exponential smoothing 9786
92 External Growth 10021
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9380
94 Field Services 7711
95 Field Warehouse 10258
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8705
97 Fishbone Diagram 14557
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26928
99 Flow Through Distribution 12260
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8124
101 FOB Destination 12970
102 Forward buying 30010
103 Freight Charge 10278
104 Freight Consolidation 7489
105 Gantt Chart 8257
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11672
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29503
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12630
109 Hub 23348
110 Idle Time 8025
111 Import/Export License 8666
112 In Bond Shipment 13879
113 Inbound Logistics 13519
114 Interstate System 10958
115 Inventory Costs 53436
116 Inventory in Transit 16376
117 Inventory Management 54572
118 Inventory Planning System 9744
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22231
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42470
121 JIT 2 18392
122 Job Production 27456
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9006
124 Kanban Squares 6795
125 Laid-Down Cost 10109
126 Lean Office 5989
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10832
128 Lee's Notation 8527
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14153
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37078
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9206
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7404
133 Logistics Channel 22833
134 Logistics Costs 26582
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6651
136 Manifest 10488
137 Marks and Numbers 12556
138 Material Planning 35010
139 Materials Management 26305
140 Milk Run 43011
141 Mini Land Bridge 14372
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9492
143 Modal Split 15354
144 Movement of Goods 19399
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31509
146 North West Corner Method 16823
147 Numeric Distribution 14150
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28474
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48322
150 Operational Efficiency 9902
151 Operational Objectives 13301
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18092
153 Operational Sustainability 27852
154 Operations Management 20576
155 Order Cancellation 10762
156 Order Cycle 18394
157 Order Cycle Time 23452
158 Order Fill Rate 33954
159 Order Fulfillment 6438
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10263
 
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