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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 44400
62 Date Code 18424
63 Days of Supply 19964
64 Dead on Arrival 9445
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7387
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8209
67 Detective Control 9002
68 Devanning 14310
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11066
70 Dispatching 24717
71 Distributed Inventory 8438
72 Distribution Channel Management 35037
73 Distribution Metrics 9260
74 Distribution Planning 24326
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15359
76 Double Marginalization 52941
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22507
78 Dual 5497
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20723
80 Echelon Inventory 26342
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38384
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50037
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7697
84 Efficient Frontier 25649
85 Engineer-to-Order 31908
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16701
87 Erlang B Formula 9432
88 ETD 8409
89 Ex Works 7900
90 Exception Rate 13619
91 Exponential smoothing 9907
92 External Growth 10183
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9609
94 Field Services 7800
95 Field Warehouse 10822
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8908
97 Fishbone Diagram 14709
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27242
99 Flow Through Distribution 12423
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8278
101 FOB Destination 13161
102 Forward buying 30352
103 Freight Charge 10493
104 Freight Consolidation 7602
105 Gantt Chart 8354
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11846
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29713
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12789
109 Hub 23573
110 Idle Time 8148
111 Import/Export License 8815
112 In Bond Shipment 14084
113 Inbound Logistics 13698
114 Interstate System 11098
115 Inventory Costs 53978
116 Inventory in Transit 16665
117 Inventory Management 55119
118 Inventory Planning System 9951
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22437
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43217
121 JIT 2 18535
122 Job Production 28064
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9232
124 Kanban Squares 6932
125 Laid-Down Cost 10325
126 Lean Office 6212
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10904
128 Lee's Notation 8635
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14395
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37536
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9389
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7594
133 Logistics Channel 23028
134 Logistics Costs 26823
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6741
136 Manifest 10652
137 Marks and Numbers 12744
138 Material Planning 35300
139 Materials Management 26504
140 Milk Run 43303
141 Mini Land Bridge 14520
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9690
143 Modal Split 15555
144 Movement of Goods 19612
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31863
146 North West Corner Method 16945
147 Numeric Distribution 14351
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28696
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48707
150 Operational Efficiency 10028
151 Operational Objectives 13460
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18194
153 Operational Sustainability 28219
154 Operations Management 21022
155 Order Cancellation 10934
156 Order Cycle 18548
157 Order Cycle Time 23633
158 Order Fill Rate 34172
159 Order Fulfillment 6551
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10427
 
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