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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 44358
62 Date Code 18377
63 Days of Supply 19944
64 Dead on Arrival 9424
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7377
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8195
67 Detective Control 8985
68 Devanning 14293
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11051
70 Dispatching 24686
71 Distributed Inventory 8429
72 Distribution Channel Management 34991
73 Distribution Metrics 9237
74 Distribution Planning 24302
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15335
76 Double Marginalization 52899
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22486
78 Dual 5488
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20705
80 Echelon Inventory 26308
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38362
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49982
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7686
84 Efficient Frontier 25621
85 Engineer-to-Order 31881
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16673
87 Erlang B Formula 9419
88 ETD 8395
89 Ex Works 7887
90 Exception Rate 13595
91 Exponential smoothing 9892
92 External Growth 10170
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9592
94 Field Services 7793
95 Field Warehouse 10755
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8888
97 Fishbone Diagram 14693
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27206
99 Flow Through Distribution 12404
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8262
101 FOB Destination 13145
102 Forward buying 30329
103 Freight Charge 10481
104 Freight Consolidation 7593
105 Gantt Chart 8346
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11827
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29698
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12773
109 Hub 23555
110 Idle Time 8136
111 Import/Export License 8803
112 In Bond Shipment 14069
113 Inbound Logistics 13681
114 Interstate System 11085
115 Inventory Costs 53931
116 Inventory in Transit 16635
117 Inventory Management 55069
118 Inventory Planning System 9941
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22412
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43160
121 JIT 2 18519
122 Job Production 28012
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9215
124 Kanban Squares 6916
125 Laid-Down Cost 10302
126 Lean Office 6198
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10898
128 Lee's Notation 8629
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14366
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37488
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9369
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7580
133 Logistics Channel 23011
134 Logistics Costs 26803
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6735
136 Manifest 10632
137 Marks and Numbers 12723
138 Material Planning 35271
139 Materials Management 26482
140 Milk Run 43276
141 Mini Land Bridge 14499
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9665
143 Modal Split 15535
144 Movement of Goods 19590
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31836
146 North West Corner Method 16931
147 Numeric Distribution 14330
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28675
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48667
150 Operational Efficiency 10015
151 Operational Objectives 13444
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18182
153 Operational Sustainability 28195
154 Operations Management 20990
155 Order Cancellation 10920
156 Order Cycle 18529
157 Order Cycle Time 23618
158 Order Fill Rate 34151
159 Order Fulfillment 6535
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10411
 
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