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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 43756
62 Date Code 17994
63 Days of Supply 19656
64 Dead on Arrival 9074
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7187
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7980
67 Detective Control 8788
68 Devanning 14100
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10727
70 Dispatching 24070
71 Distributed Inventory 8249
72 Distribution Channel Management 34391
73 Distribution Metrics 8910
74 Distribution Planning 24038
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15024
76 Double Marginalization 52408
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22134
78 Dual 5352
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20441
80 Echelon Inventory 25984
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38100
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49265
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7505
84 Efficient Frontier 25218
85 Engineer-to-Order 31500
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16179
87 Erlang B Formula 9220
88 ETD 8204
89 Ex Works 7744
90 Exception Rate 13304
91 Exponential smoothing 9724
92 External Growth 9933
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9310
94 Field Services 7655
95 Field Warehouse 9817
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8599
97 Fishbone Diagram 14460
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26772
99 Flow Through Distribution 12167
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8041
101 FOB Destination 12867
102 Forward buying 29883
103 Freight Charge 10206
104 Freight Consolidation 7420
105 Gantt Chart 8199
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11574
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29367
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12544
109 Hub 23225
110 Idle Time 7956
111 Import/Export License 8591
112 In Bond Shipment 13754
113 Inbound Logistics 13395
114 Interstate System 10875
115 Inventory Costs 53170
116 Inventory in Transit 16272
117 Inventory Management 54294
118 Inventory Planning System 9682
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22110
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42017
121 JIT 2 18317
122 Job Production 27134
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8917
124 Kanban Squares 6735
125 Laid-Down Cost 10009
126 Lean Office 5918
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10790
128 Lee's Notation 8459
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14021
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36752
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9092
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7352
133 Logistics Channel 22729
134 Logistics Costs 26458
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6605
136 Manifest 10395
137 Marks and Numbers 12424
138 Material Planning 34870
139 Materials Management 26197
140 Milk Run 42799
141 Mini Land Bridge 14269
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9368
143 Modal Split 15214
144 Movement of Goods 19283
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31318
146 North West Corner Method 16751
147 Numeric Distribution 14010
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28340
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48128
150 Operational Efficiency 9823
151 Operational Objectives 13226
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18022
153 Operational Sustainability 27689
154 Operations Management 20305
155 Order Cancellation 10638
156 Order Cycle 18305
157 Order Cycle Time 23364
158 Order Fill Rate 33824
159 Order Fulfillment 6379
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10156
 
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