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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 43931
62 Date Code 18084
63 Days of Supply 19719
64 Dead on Arrival 9139
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7237
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8028
67 Detective Control 8844
68 Devanning 14145
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10787
70 Dispatching 24281
71 Distributed Inventory 8290
72 Distribution Channel Management 34523
73 Distribution Metrics 8997
74 Distribution Planning 24102
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15105
76 Double Marginalization 52509
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22195
78 Dual 5387
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20507
80 Echelon Inventory 26074
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38167
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49448
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7546
84 Efficient Frontier 25319
85 Engineer-to-Order 31597
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16281
87 Erlang B Formula 9271
88 ETD 8263
89 Ex Works 7783
90 Exception Rate 13382
91 Exponential smoothing 9763
92 External Growth 9988
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9357
94 Field Services 7693
95 Field Warehouse 10077
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8671
97 Fishbone Diagram 14521
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26868
99 Flow Through Distribution 12229
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8091
101 FOB Destination 12941
102 Forward buying 29961
103 Freight Charge 10254
104 Freight Consolidation 7465
105 Gantt Chart 8230
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11638
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29453
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12602
109 Hub 23301
110 Idle Time 7998
111 Import/Export License 8644
112 In Bond Shipment 13826
113 Inbound Logistics 13475
114 Interstate System 10930
115 Inventory Costs 53350
116 Inventory in Transit 16335
117 Inventory Management 54482
118 Inventory Planning System 9724
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22191
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42315
121 JIT 2 18365
122 Job Production 27340
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8971
124 Kanban Squares 6769
125 Laid-Down Cost 10071
126 Lean Office 5964
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10814
128 Lee's Notation 8504
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14108
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36958
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9163
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7382
133 Logistics Channel 22797
134 Logistics Costs 26538
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6633
136 Manifest 10458
137 Marks and Numbers 12512
138 Material Planning 34966
139 Materials Management 26265
140 Milk Run 42933
141 Mini Land Bridge 14331
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9444
143 Modal Split 15314
144 Movement of Goods 19358
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31429
146 North West Corner Method 16800
147 Numeric Distribution 14108
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28432
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48252
150 Operational Efficiency 9870
151 Operational Objectives 13273
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18074
153 Operational Sustainability 27793
154 Operations Management 20497
155 Order Cancellation 10725
156 Order Cycle 18363
157 Order Cycle Time 23419
158 Order Fill Rate 33908
159 Order Fulfillment 6416
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10217
 
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