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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 44064
62 Date Code 18172
63 Days of Supply 19787
64 Dead on Arrival 9204
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7280
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8076
67 Detective Control 8880
68 Devanning 14185
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10832
70 Dispatching 24419
71 Distributed Inventory 8326
72 Distribution Channel Management 34647
73 Distribution Metrics 9073
74 Distribution Planning 24159
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15172
76 Double Marginalization 52595
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22252
78 Dual 5421
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20569
80 Echelon Inventory 26155
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38221
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49601
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7585
84 Efficient Frontier 25415
85 Engineer-to-Order 31688
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16377
87 Erlang B Formula 9320
88 ETD 8304
89 Ex Works 7812
90 Exception Rate 13444
91 Exponential smoothing 9805
92 External Growth 10036
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9397
94 Field Services 7723
95 Field Warehouse 10342
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8726
97 Fishbone Diagram 14568
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26960
99 Flow Through Distribution 12279
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8138
101 FOB Destination 12985
102 Forward buying 30032
103 Freight Charge 10294
104 Freight Consolidation 7499
105 Gantt Chart 8267
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11695
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29529
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12648
109 Hub 23375
110 Idle Time 8041
111 Import/Export License 8683
112 In Bond Shipment 13904
113 Inbound Logistics 13544
114 Interstate System 10975
115 Inventory Costs 53500
116 Inventory in Transit 16403
117 Inventory Management 54620
118 Inventory Planning System 9753
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22250
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42549
121 JIT 2 18406
122 Job Production 27530
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9024
124 Kanban Squares 6809
125 Laid-Down Cost 10133
126 Lean Office 6009
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10839
128 Lee's Notation 8543
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14180
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37126
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9226
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7412
133 Logistics Channel 22861
134 Logistics Costs 26614
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6666
136 Manifest 10503
137 Marks and Numbers 12572
138 Material Planning 35038
139 Materials Management 26324
140 Milk Run 43048
141 Mini Land Bridge 14386
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9510
143 Modal Split 15377
144 Movement of Goods 19423
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31557
146 North West Corner Method 16834
147 Numeric Distribution 14178
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28499
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48364
150 Operational Efficiency 9914
151 Operational Objectives 13317
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18102
153 Operational Sustainability 27883
154 Operations Management 20605
155 Order Cancellation 10785
156 Order Cycle 18414
157 Order Cycle Time 23477
158 Order Fill Rate 33974
159 Order Fulfillment 6449
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10278
 
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