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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 43542
62 Date Code 17848
63 Days of Supply 19555
64 Dead on Arrival 8998
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7123
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7907
67 Detective Control 8733
68 Devanning 14040
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10658
70 Dispatching 23823
71 Distributed Inventory 8204
72 Distribution Channel Management 34218
73 Distribution Metrics 8805
74 Distribution Planning 23963
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14937
76 Double Marginalization 52308
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22056
78 Dual 5310
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20366
80 Echelon Inventory 25914
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38021
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49062
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7451
84 Efficient Frontier 25086
85 Engineer-to-Order 31369
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16052
87 Erlang B Formula 9152
88 ETD 8130
89 Ex Works 7708
90 Exception Rate 13212
91 Exponential smoothing 9658
92 External Growth 9866
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9253
94 Field Services 7616
95 Field Warehouse 9735
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8516
97 Fishbone Diagram 14385
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26636
99 Flow Through Distribution 12101
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7978
101 FOB Destination 12764
102 Forward buying 29804
103 Freight Charge 10143
104 Freight Consolidation 7372
105 Gantt Chart 8150
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11500
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29256
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12478
109 Hub 23131
110 Idle Time 7907
111 Import/Export License 8532
112 In Bond Shipment 13688
113 Inbound Logistics 13288
114 Interstate System 10817
115 Inventory Costs 52950
116 Inventory in Transit 16174
117 Inventory Management 54040
118 Inventory Planning System 9627
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22019
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41676
121 JIT 2 18266
122 Job Production 26875
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8839
124 Kanban Squares 6678
125 Laid-Down Cost 9937
126 Lean Office 5857
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10765
128 Lee's Notation 8402
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13913
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36508
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9007
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7314
133 Logistics Channel 22631
134 Logistics Costs 26364
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6572
136 Manifest 10313
137 Marks and Numbers 12319
138 Material Planning 34714
139 Materials Management 26098
140 Milk Run 42639
141 Mini Land Bridge 14204
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9278
143 Modal Split 15083
144 Movement of Goods 19196
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31187
146 North West Corner Method 16688
147 Numeric Distribution 13928
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28231
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47988
150 Operational Efficiency 9750
151 Operational Objectives 13162
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17973
153 Operational Sustainability 27591
154 Operations Management 20085
155 Order Cancellation 10514
156 Order Cycle 18230
157 Order Cycle Time 23283
158 Order Fill Rate 33725
159 Order Fulfillment 6333
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10084
 
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