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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 43377
62 Date Code 17760
63 Days of Supply 19495
64 Dead on Arrival 8943
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7089
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7873
67 Detective Control 8698
68 Devanning 13999
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10610
70 Dispatching 23678
71 Distributed Inventory 8173
72 Distribution Channel Management 34094
73 Distribution Metrics 8735
74 Distribution Planning 23919
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14871
76 Double Marginalization 52237
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22008
78 Dual 5278
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20313
80 Echelon Inventory 25877
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37970
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48914
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7420
84 Efficient Frontier 25000
85 Engineer-to-Order 31281
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15979
87 Erlang B Formula 9112
88 ETD 8099
89 Ex Works 7679
90 Exception Rate 13164
91 Exponential smoothing 9622
92 External Growth 9835
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9221
94 Field Services 7590
95 Field Warehouse 9698
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8455
97 Fishbone Diagram 14319
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26555
99 Flow Through Distribution 12063
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7940
101 FOB Destination 12698
102 Forward buying 29743
103 Freight Charge 10110
104 Freight Consolidation 7339
105 Gantt Chart 8122
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11442
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29206
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12441
109 Hub 23072
110 Idle Time 7875
111 Import/Export License 8495
112 In Bond Shipment 13631
113 Inbound Logistics 13236
114 Interstate System 10787
115 Inventory Costs 52804
116 Inventory in Transit 16117
117 Inventory Management 53903
118 Inventory Planning System 9597
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21949
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41471
121 JIT 2 18224
122 Job Production 26708
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8780
124 Kanban Squares 6634
125 Laid-Down Cost 9904
126 Lean Office 5815
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10748
128 Lee's Notation 8369
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13850
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36348
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8970
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7282
133 Logistics Channel 22581
134 Logistics Costs 26307
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6548
136 Manifest 10254
137 Marks and Numbers 12272
138 Material Planning 34604
139 Materials Management 26043
140 Milk Run 42490
141 Mini Land Bridge 14150
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9218
143 Modal Split 15004
144 Movement of Goods 19148
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31099
146 North West Corner Method 16659
147 Numeric Distribution 13871
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28166
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47886
150 Operational Efficiency 9701
151 Operational Objectives 13126
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17946
153 Operational Sustainability 27525
154 Operations Management 19939
155 Order Cancellation 10442
156 Order Cycle 18182
157 Order Cycle Time 23214
158 Order Fill Rate 33657
159 Order Fulfillment 6297
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10054
 
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