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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 44413
62 Date Code 18434
63 Days of Supply 19969
64 Dead on Arrival 9450
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7393
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8213
67 Detective Control 9008
68 Devanning 14313
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11070
70 Dispatching 24725
71 Distributed Inventory 8442
72 Distribution Channel Management 35048
73 Distribution Metrics 9265
74 Distribution Planning 24328
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15364
76 Double Marginalization 52947
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22514
78 Dual 5501
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20726
80 Echelon Inventory 26349
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38390
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50049
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7701
84 Efficient Frontier 25658
85 Engineer-to-Order 31912
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16711
87 Erlang B Formula 9437
88 ETD 8411
89 Ex Works 7904
90 Exception Rate 13625
91 Exponential smoothing 9912
92 External Growth 10188
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9613
94 Field Services 7802
95 Field Warehouse 10840
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8914
97 Fishbone Diagram 14717
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27251
99 Flow Through Distribution 12427
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8283
101 FOB Destination 13165
102 Forward buying 30361
103 Freight Charge 10496
104 Freight Consolidation 7604
105 Gantt Chart 8355
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11853
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29722
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12793
109 Hub 23577
110 Idle Time 8152
111 Import/Export License 8817
112 In Bond Shipment 14086
113 Inbound Logistics 13705
114 Interstate System 11100
115 Inventory Costs 53987
116 Inventory in Transit 16674
117 Inventory Management 55128
118 Inventory Planning System 9957
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22443
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43231
121 JIT 2 18537
122 Job Production 28088
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9238
124 Kanban Squares 6935
125 Laid-Down Cost 10331
126 Lean Office 6215
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10906
128 Lee's Notation 8638
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14404
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37546
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9393
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7594
133 Logistics Channel 23036
134 Logistics Costs 26833
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6746
136 Manifest 10658
137 Marks and Numbers 12758
138 Material Planning 35305
139 Materials Management 26510
140 Milk Run 43312
141 Mini Land Bridge 14525
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9695
143 Modal Split 15561
144 Movement of Goods 19619
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31872
146 North West Corner Method 16948
147 Numeric Distribution 14356
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28702
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48723
150 Operational Efficiency 10032
151 Operational Objectives 13464
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18196
153 Operational Sustainability 28232
154 Operations Management 21031
155 Order Cancellation 10938
156 Order Cycle 18549
157 Order Cycle Time 23638
158 Order Fill Rate 34177
159 Order Fulfillment 6554
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10436
 
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