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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 43843
62 Date Code 18049
63 Days of Supply 19684
64 Dead on Arrival 9102
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7216
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8003
67 Detective Control 8813
68 Devanning 14120
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10754
70 Dispatching 24185
71 Distributed Inventory 8268
72 Distribution Channel Management 34461
73 Distribution Metrics 8952
74 Distribution Planning 24072
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15068
76 Double Marginalization 52460
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22164
78 Dual 5371
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20475
80 Echelon Inventory 26027
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38136
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49353
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7524
84 Efficient Frontier 25278
85 Engineer-to-Order 31551
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16232
87 Erlang B Formula 9247
88 ETD 8232
89 Ex Works 7765
90 Exception Rate 13341
91 Exponential smoothing 9741
92 External Growth 9957
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9336
94 Field Services 7674
95 Field Warehouse 9913
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8639
97 Fishbone Diagram 14499
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26821
99 Flow Through Distribution 12200
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8067
101 FOB Destination 12906
102 Forward buying 29918
103 Freight Charge 10232
104 Freight Consolidation 7442
105 Gantt Chart 8212
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11604
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29403
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12573
109 Hub 23265
110 Idle Time 7977
111 Import/Export License 8617
112 In Bond Shipment 13788
113 Inbound Logistics 13433
114 Interstate System 10904
115 Inventory Costs 53263
116 Inventory in Transit 16302
117 Inventory Management 54401
118 Inventory Planning System 9703
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22150
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42172
121 JIT 2 18341
122 Job Production 27239
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8943
124 Kanban Squares 6752
125 Laid-Down Cost 10043
126 Lean Office 5941
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8484
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14064
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36864
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9124
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7369
133 Logistics Channel 22758
134 Logistics Costs 26495
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6620
136 Manifest 10425
137 Marks and Numbers 12467
138 Material Planning 34926
139 Materials Management 26229
140 Milk Run 42867
141 Mini Land Bridge 14309
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9403
143 Modal Split 15266
144 Movement of Goods 19323
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31375
146 North West Corner Method 16773
147 Numeric Distribution 14057
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28391
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48188
150 Operational Efficiency 9848
151 Operational Objectives 13248
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18051
153 Operational Sustainability 27738
154 Operations Management 20408
155 Order Cancellation 10681
156 Order Cycle 18338
157 Order Cycle Time 23400
158 Order Fill Rate 33867
159 Order Fulfillment 6395
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10188
 
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