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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 43896
62 Date Code 18073
63 Days of Supply 19707
64 Dead on Arrival 9127
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7229
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8018
67 Detective Control 8834
68 Devanning 14137
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10775
70 Dispatching 24257
71 Distributed Inventory 8285
72 Distribution Channel Management 34509
73 Distribution Metrics 8983
74 Distribution Planning 24092
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15093
76 Double Marginalization 52493
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22188
78 Dual 5383
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20496
80 Echelon Inventory 26057
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38156
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49421
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7542
84 Efficient Frontier 25303
85 Engineer-to-Order 31578
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16267
87 Erlang B Formula 9266
88 ETD 8251
89 Ex Works 7777
90 Exception Rate 13368
91 Exponential smoothing 9757
92 External Growth 9977
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9347
94 Field Services 7686
95 Field Warehouse 10015
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8657
97 Fishbone Diagram 14511
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26850
99 Flow Through Distribution 12217
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8084
101 FOB Destination 12938
102 Forward buying 29949
103 Freight Charge 10247
104 Freight Consolidation 7457
105 Gantt Chart 8224
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11625
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29437
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12595
109 Hub 23290
110 Idle Time 7989
111 Import/Export License 8636
112 In Bond Shipment 13813
113 Inbound Logistics 13458
114 Interstate System 10919
115 Inventory Costs 53322
116 Inventory in Transit 16321
117 Inventory Management 54450
118 Inventory Planning System 9716
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22171
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42263
121 JIT 2 18361
122 Job Production 27315
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8963
124 Kanban Squares 6764
125 Laid-Down Cost 10060
126 Lean Office 5954
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10812
128 Lee's Notation 8501
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14089
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36927
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9155
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7378
133 Logistics Channel 22782
134 Logistics Costs 26523
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6629
136 Manifest 10447
137 Marks and Numbers 12499
138 Material Planning 34944
139 Materials Management 26251
140 Milk Run 42910
141 Mini Land Bridge 14324
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9431
143 Modal Split 15302
144 Movement of Goods 19347
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31415
146 North West Corner Method 16790
147 Numeric Distribution 14091
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28419
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48229
150 Operational Efficiency 9860
151 Operational Objectives 13268
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18066
153 Operational Sustainability 27770
154 Operations Management 20471
155 Order Cancellation 10713
156 Order Cycle 18354
157 Order Cycle Time 23411
158 Order Fill Rate 33892
159 Order Fulfillment 6407
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10207
 
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