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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 44315
62 Date Code 18348
63 Days of Supply 19926
64 Dead on Arrival 9409
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7362
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8177
67 Detective Control 8971
68 Devanning 14276
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11032
70 Dispatching 24656
71 Distributed Inventory 8414
72 Distribution Channel Management 34943
73 Distribution Metrics 9215
74 Distribution Planning 24281
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15313
76 Double Marginalization 52873
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22471
78 Dual 5483
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20689
80 Echelon Inventory 26289
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38342
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49939
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7672
84 Efficient Frontier 25594
85 Engineer-to-Order 31858
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16645
87 Erlang B Formula 9407
88 ETD 8382
89 Ex Works 7879
90 Exception Rate 13576
91 Exponential smoothing 9876
92 External Growth 10152
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9578
94 Field Services 7787
95 Field Warehouse 10706
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8865
97 Fishbone Diagram 14679
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27182
99 Flow Through Distribution 12385
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8246
101 FOB Destination 13127
102 Forward buying 30305
103 Freight Charge 10468
104 Freight Consolidation 7586
105 Gantt Chart 8336
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11805
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29676
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12757
109 Hub 23533
110 Idle Time 8125
111 Import/Export License 8790
112 In Bond Shipment 14047
113 Inbound Logistics 13665
114 Interstate System 11073
115 Inventory Costs 53875
116 Inventory in Transit 16614
117 Inventory Management 55021
118 Inventory Planning System 9924
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22388
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43107
121 JIT 2 18510
122 Job Production 27950
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9203
124 Kanban Squares 6899
125 Laid-Down Cost 10285
126 Lean Office 6185
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10892
128 Lee's Notation 8623
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14343
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37451
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9353
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7573
133 Logistics Channel 22991
134 Logistics Costs 26774
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6724
136 Manifest 10613
137 Marks and Numbers 12701
138 Material Planning 35245
139 Materials Management 26463
140 Milk Run 43240
141 Mini Land Bridge 14486
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9650
143 Modal Split 15514
144 Movement of Goods 19574
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31813
146 North West Corner Method 16919
147 Numeric Distribution 14312
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28650
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48619
150 Operational Efficiency 10002
151 Operational Objectives 13426
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18177
153 Operational Sustainability 28173
154 Operations Management 20964
155 Order Cancellation 10905
156 Order Cycle 18518
157 Order Cycle Time 23597
158 Order Fill Rate 34135
159 Order Fulfillment 6523
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10394
 
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