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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 44437
62 Date Code 18469
63 Days of Supply 19980
64 Dead on Arrival 9462
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7401
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8227
67 Detective Control 9016
68 Devanning 14324
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11082
70 Dispatching 24744
71 Distributed Inventory 8453
72 Distribution Channel Management 35070
73 Distribution Metrics 9281
74 Distribution Planning 24347
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15379
76 Double Marginalization 52967
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22527
78 Dual 5507
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20737
80 Echelon Inventory 26368
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38404
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50076
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7714
84 Efficient Frontier 25676
85 Engineer-to-Order 31931
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16729
87 Erlang B Formula 9448
88 ETD 8421
89 Ex Works 7914
90 Exception Rate 13641
91 Exponential smoothing 9919
92 External Growth 10199
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9623
94 Field Services 7809
95 Field Warehouse 10884
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8930
97 Fishbone Diagram 14729
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27273
99 Flow Through Distribution 12438
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8294
101 FOB Destination 13173
102 Forward buying 30368
103 Freight Charge 10501
104 Freight Consolidation 7607
105 Gantt Chart 8360
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11868
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29731
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12802
109 Hub 23588
110 Idle Time 8158
111 Import/Export License 8822
112 In Bond Shipment 14093
113 Inbound Logistics 13713
114 Interstate System 11109
115 Inventory Costs 54012
116 Inventory in Transit 16683
117 Inventory Management 55161
118 Inventory Planning System 9963
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22462
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43267
121 JIT 2 18546
122 Job Production 28127
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9245
124 Kanban Squares 6947
125 Laid-Down Cost 10341
126 Lean Office 6224
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10909
128 Lee's Notation 8642
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14418
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37569
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9408
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7600
133 Logistics Channel 23043
134 Logistics Costs 26845
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6751
136 Manifest 10667
137 Marks and Numbers 12771
138 Material Planning 35321
139 Materials Management 26521
140 Milk Run 43328
141 Mini Land Bridge 14536
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9704
143 Modal Split 15569
144 Movement of Goods 19633
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31887
146 North West Corner Method 16954
147 Numeric Distribution 14363
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28719
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48752
150 Operational Efficiency 10040
151 Operational Objectives 13471
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18198
153 Operational Sustainability 28246
154 Operations Management 21049
155 Order Cancellation 10951
156 Order Cycle 18558
157 Order Cycle Time 23648
158 Order Fill Rate 34190
159 Order Fulfillment 6561
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10448
 
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