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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 44071
62 Date Code 18179
63 Days of Supply 19792
64 Dead on Arrival 9208
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7283
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8080
67 Detective Control 8884
68 Devanning 14189
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10838
70 Dispatching 24430
71 Distributed Inventory 8331
72 Distribution Channel Management 34653
73 Distribution Metrics 9077
74 Distribution Planning 24162
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15174
76 Double Marginalization 52600
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22254
78 Dual 5425
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20575
80 Echelon Inventory 26159
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38223
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49612
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7589
84 Efficient Frontier 25422
85 Engineer-to-Order 31691
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16379
87 Erlang B Formula 9324
88 ETD 8306
89 Ex Works 7816
90 Exception Rate 13447
91 Exponential smoothing 9807
92 External Growth 10041
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9398
94 Field Services 7725
95 Field Warehouse 10357
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8729
97 Fishbone Diagram 14576
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26969
99 Flow Through Distribution 12279
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8143
101 FOB Destination 12991
102 Forward buying 30037
103 Freight Charge 10298
104 Freight Consolidation 7503
105 Gantt Chart 8271
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11698
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29535
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12651
109 Hub 23379
110 Idle Time 8045
111 Import/Export License 8686
112 In Bond Shipment 13908
113 Inbound Logistics 13547
114 Interstate System 10978
115 Inventory Costs 53518
116 Inventory in Transit 16407
117 Inventory Management 54632
118 Inventory Planning System 9755
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22253
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42566
121 JIT 2 18409
122 Job Production 27542
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9030
124 Kanban Squares 6810
125 Laid-Down Cost 10134
126 Lean Office 6012
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10841
128 Lee's Notation 8545
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14187
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37133
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9233
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7414
133 Logistics Channel 22865
134 Logistics Costs 26620
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6668
136 Manifest 10505
137 Marks and Numbers 12574
138 Material Planning 35048
139 Materials Management 26330
140 Milk Run 43055
141 Mini Land Bridge 14390
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9517
143 Modal Split 15383
144 Movement of Goods 19434
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31562
146 North West Corner Method 16839
147 Numeric Distribution 14182
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28504
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48370
150 Operational Efficiency 9917
151 Operational Objectives 13321
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18106
153 Operational Sustainability 27889
154 Operations Management 20611
155 Order Cancellation 10792
156 Order Cycle 18418
157 Order Cycle Time 23480
158 Order Fill Rate 33983
159 Order Fulfillment 6453
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10281
 
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