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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 43547
62 Date Code 17850
63 Days of Supply 19556
64 Dead on Arrival 8999
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7123
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7907
67 Detective Control 8734
68 Devanning 14040
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10660
70 Dispatching 23827
71 Distributed Inventory 8204
72 Distribution Channel Management 34224
73 Distribution Metrics 8807
74 Distribution Planning 23967
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14940
76 Double Marginalization 52310
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22059
78 Dual 5310
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20366
80 Echelon Inventory 25917
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38022
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49068
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7451
84 Efficient Frontier 25090
85 Engineer-to-Order 31370
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16052
87 Erlang B Formula 9153
88 ETD 8131
89 Ex Works 7709
90 Exception Rate 13213
91 Exponential smoothing 9659
92 External Growth 9867
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9256
94 Field Services 7616
95 Field Warehouse 9737
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8518
97 Fishbone Diagram 14385
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26638
99 Flow Through Distribution 12103
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7979
101 FOB Destination 12765
102 Forward buying 29806
103 Freight Charge 10145
104 Freight Consolidation 7374
105 Gantt Chart 8150
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11501
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29260
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12479
109 Hub 23132
110 Idle Time 7907
111 Import/Export License 8532
112 In Bond Shipment 13689
113 Inbound Logistics 13290
114 Interstate System 10818
115 Inventory Costs 52954
116 Inventory in Transit 16175
117 Inventory Management 54047
118 Inventory Planning System 9628
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22020
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41685
121 JIT 2 18266
122 Job Production 26879
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8839
124 Kanban Squares 6678
125 Laid-Down Cost 9939
126 Lean Office 5860
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10766
128 Lee's Notation 8403
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13917
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36509
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9009
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7314
133 Logistics Channel 22632
134 Logistics Costs 26366
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6574
136 Manifest 10314
137 Marks and Numbers 12321
138 Material Planning 34716
139 Materials Management 26098
140 Milk Run 42642
141 Mini Land Bridge 14206
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9281
143 Modal Split 15086
144 Movement of Goods 19198
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31192
146 North West Corner Method 16689
147 Numeric Distribution 13931
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28234
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47993
150 Operational Efficiency 9751
151 Operational Objectives 13163
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17974
153 Operational Sustainability 27593
154 Operations Management 20092
155 Order Cancellation 10517
156 Order Cycle 18232
157 Order Cycle Time 23285
158 Order Fill Rate 33726
159 Order Fulfillment 6333
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10085
 
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