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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 44299
62 Date Code 18335
63 Days of Supply 19917
64 Dead on Arrival 9401
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7354
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8173
67 Detective Control 8961
68 Devanning 14273
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11023
70 Dispatching 24634
71 Distributed Inventory 8409
72 Distribution Channel Management 34926
73 Distribution Metrics 9205
74 Distribution Planning 24272
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15301
76 Double Marginalization 52860
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22462
78 Dual 5478
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20679
80 Echelon Inventory 26277
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38333
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49917
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7667
84 Efficient Frontier 25586
85 Engineer-to-Order 31848
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16631
87 Erlang B Formula 9401
88 ETD 8375
89 Ex Works 7878
90 Exception Rate 13567
91 Exponential smoothing 9871
92 External Growth 10144
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9573
94 Field Services 7778
95 Field Warehouse 10674
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8858
97 Fishbone Diagram 14674
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27163
99 Flow Through Distribution 12378
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8237
101 FOB Destination 13119
102 Forward buying 30292
103 Freight Charge 10459
104 Freight Consolidation 7579
105 Gantt Chart 8332
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11800
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29667
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12752
109 Hub 23526
110 Idle Time 8118
111 Import/Export License 8781
112 In Bond Shipment 14033
113 Inbound Logistics 13657
114 Interstate System 11065
115 Inventory Costs 53853
116 Inventory in Transit 16604
117 Inventory Management 54998
118 Inventory Planning System 9919
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22380
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43090
121 JIT 2 18502
122 Job Production 27916
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9196
124 Kanban Squares 6890
125 Laid-Down Cost 10277
126 Lean Office 6177
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10891
128 Lee's Notation 8617
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14334
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37436
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9345
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7569
133 Logistics Channel 22982
134 Logistics Costs 26759
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6722
136 Manifest 10605
137 Marks and Numbers 12693
138 Material Planning 35233
139 Materials Management 26455
140 Milk Run 43229
141 Mini Land Bridge 14478
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9639
143 Modal Split 15503
144 Movement of Goods 19561
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31795
146 North West Corner Method 16913
147 Numeric Distribution 14303
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28642
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48602
150 Operational Efficiency 9997
151 Operational Objectives 13417
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18169
153 Operational Sustainability 28158
154 Operations Management 20952
155 Order Cancellation 10899
156 Order Cycle 18511
157 Order Cycle Time 23588
158 Order Fill Rate 34126
159 Order Fulfillment 6519
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10386
 
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