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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 43270
62 Date Code 17714
63 Days of Supply 19444
64 Dead on Arrival 8911
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7067
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7837
67 Detective Control 8679
68 Devanning 13970
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10578
70 Dispatching 23599
71 Distributed Inventory 8155
72 Distribution Channel Management 34008
73 Distribution Metrics 8694
74 Distribution Planning 23885
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14826
76 Double Marginalization 52158
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21974
78 Dual 5250
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20285
80 Echelon Inventory 25845
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37937
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48809
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7394
84 Efficient Frontier 24939
85 Engineer-to-Order 31231
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15918
87 Erlang B Formula 9077
88 ETD 8071
89 Ex Works 7662
90 Exception Rate 13123
91 Exponential smoothing 9596
92 External Growth 9811
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9191
94 Field Services 7576
95 Field Warehouse 9672
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8407
97 Fishbone Diagram 14292
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26496
99 Flow Through Distribution 12028
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7907
101 FOB Destination 12663
102 Forward buying 29692
103 Freight Charge 10084
104 Freight Consolidation 7308
105 Gantt Chart 8102
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11397
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29147
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12412
109 Hub 23028
110 Idle Time 7853
111 Import/Export License 8465
112 In Bond Shipment 13593
113 Inbound Logistics 13195
114 Interstate System 10769
115 Inventory Costs 52706
116 Inventory in Transit 16073
117 Inventory Management 53804
118 Inventory Planning System 9567
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21893
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41306
121 JIT 2 18196
122 Job Production 26576
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8746
124 Kanban Squares 6607
125 Laid-Down Cost 9877
126 Lean Office 5789
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10728
128 Lee's Notation 8343
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13800
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36242
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8941
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7247
133 Logistics Channel 22546
134 Logistics Costs 26263
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6526
136 Manifest 10221
137 Marks and Numbers 12248
138 Material Planning 34536
139 Materials Management 26009
140 Milk Run 42399
141 Mini Land Bridge 14114
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9165
143 Modal Split 14956
144 Movement of Goods 19103
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31043
146 North West Corner Method 16634
147 Numeric Distribution 13826
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28121
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47826
150 Operational Efficiency 9666
151 Operational Objectives 13096
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17923
153 Operational Sustainability 27458
154 Operations Management 19839
155 Order Cancellation 10394
156 Order Cycle 18156
157 Order Cycle Time 23173
158 Order Fill Rate 33608
159 Order Fulfillment 6275
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10029
 
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