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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 43972
62 Date Code 18108
63 Days of Supply 19742
64 Dead on Arrival 9158
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7252
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8046
67 Detective Control 8855
68 Devanning 14158
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10801
70 Dispatching 24326
71 Distributed Inventory 8299
72 Distribution Channel Management 34550
73 Distribution Metrics 9018
74 Distribution Planning 24121
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15124
76 Double Marginalization 52531
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22213
78 Dual 5398
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20526
80 Echelon Inventory 26092
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38184
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49480
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7560
84 Efficient Frontier 25347
85 Engineer-to-Order 31623
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16307
87 Erlang B Formula 9291
88 ETD 8271
89 Ex Works 7790
90 Exception Rate 13402
91 Exponential smoothing 9773
92 External Growth 10004
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9370
94 Field Services 7701
95 Field Warehouse 10155
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8687
97 Fishbone Diagram 14534
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26892
99 Flow Through Distribution 12243
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8107
101 FOB Destination 12956
102 Forward buying 29979
103 Freight Charge 10265
104 Freight Consolidation 7478
105 Gantt Chart 8241
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11653
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29470
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12614
109 Hub 23321
110 Idle Time 8008
111 Import/Export License 8655
112 In Bond Shipment 13848
113 Inbound Logistics 13491
114 Interstate System 10943
115 Inventory Costs 53384
116 Inventory in Transit 16354
117 Inventory Management 54515
118 Inventory Planning System 9733
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22211
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42379
121 JIT 2 18379
122 Job Production 27384
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8987
124 Kanban Squares 6782
125 Laid-Down Cost 10091
126 Lean Office 5970
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10825
128 Lee's Notation 8515
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14123
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37016
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9180
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7394
133 Logistics Channel 22814
134 Logistics Costs 26554
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6642
136 Manifest 10470
137 Marks and Numbers 12535
138 Material Planning 34988
139 Materials Management 26284
140 Milk Run 42963
141 Mini Land Bridge 14350
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9466
143 Modal Split 15334
144 Movement of Goods 19375
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31456
146 North West Corner Method 16809
147 Numeric Distribution 14126
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28451
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48287
150 Operational Efficiency 9886
151 Operational Objectives 13285
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18081
153 Operational Sustainability 27816
154 Operations Management 20522
155 Order Cancellation 10739
156 Order Cycle 18375
157 Order Cycle Time 23433
158 Order Fill Rate 33929
159 Order Fulfillment 6429
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10237
 
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