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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 44409
62 Date Code 18430
63 Days of Supply 19966
64 Dead on Arrival 9448
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7391
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8211
67 Detective Control 9004
68 Devanning 14311
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11068
70 Dispatching 24722
71 Distributed Inventory 8440
72 Distribution Channel Management 35044
73 Distribution Metrics 9264
74 Distribution Planning 24327
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15362
76 Double Marginalization 52944
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22509
78 Dual 5498
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20724
80 Echelon Inventory 26347
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38387
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50042
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7699
84 Efficient Frontier 25653
85 Engineer-to-Order 31911
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16705
87 Erlang B Formula 9435
88 ETD 8409
89 Ex Works 7902
90 Exception Rate 13623
91 Exponential smoothing 9909
92 External Growth 10184
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9611
94 Field Services 7801
95 Field Warehouse 10832
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8913
97 Fishbone Diagram 14714
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27245
99 Flow Through Distribution 12426
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8281
101 FOB Destination 13162
102 Forward buying 30359
103 Freight Charge 10494
104 Freight Consolidation 7603
105 Gantt Chart 8355
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11850
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29718
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12790
109 Hub 23577
110 Idle Time 8151
111 Import/Export License 8816
112 In Bond Shipment 14085
113 Inbound Logistics 13702
114 Interstate System 11099
115 Inventory Costs 53983
116 Inventory in Transit 16668
117 Inventory Management 55122
118 Inventory Planning System 9955
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22440
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43223
121 JIT 2 18537
122 Job Production 28077
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9235
124 Kanban Squares 6933
125 Laid-Down Cost 10329
126 Lean Office 6213
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10904
128 Lee's Notation 8638
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14400
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37540
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9391
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7594
133 Logistics Channel 23034
134 Logistics Costs 26830
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6745
136 Manifest 10657
137 Marks and Numbers 12749
138 Material Planning 35302
139 Materials Management 26508
140 Milk Run 43310
141 Mini Land Bridge 14523
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9693
143 Modal Split 15558
144 Movement of Goods 19614
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31867
146 North West Corner Method 16946
147 Numeric Distribution 14354
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28700
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48715
150 Operational Efficiency 10030
151 Operational Objectives 13462
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18195
153 Operational Sustainability 28226
154 Operations Management 21027
155 Order Cancellation 10936
156 Order Cycle 18548
157 Order Cycle Time 23635
158 Order Fill Rate 34174
159 Order Fulfillment 6554
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10432
 
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