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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 43517
62 Date Code 17836
63 Days of Supply 19545
64 Dead on Arrival 8992
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7121
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7903
67 Detective Control 8729
68 Devanning 14032
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10650
70 Dispatching 23805
71 Distributed Inventory 8201
72 Distribution Channel Management 34200
73 Distribution Metrics 8799
74 Distribution Planning 23959
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14927
76 Double Marginalization 52303
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22052
78 Dual 5310
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20361
80 Echelon Inventory 25908
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38015
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49048
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7447
84 Efficient Frontier 25074
85 Engineer-to-Order 31355
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16041
87 Erlang B Formula 9148
88 ETD 8127
89 Ex Works 7704
90 Exception Rate 13209
91 Exponential smoothing 9655
92 External Growth 9863
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9252
94 Field Services 7614
95 Field Warehouse 9733
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8508
97 Fishbone Diagram 14374
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26627
99 Flow Through Distribution 12099
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7975
101 FOB Destination 12754
102 Forward buying 29799
103 Freight Charge 10140
104 Freight Consolidation 7368
105 Gantt Chart 8147
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11494
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29249
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12472
109 Hub 23125
110 Idle Time 7902
111 Import/Export License 8528
112 In Bond Shipment 13680
113 Inbound Logistics 13281
114 Interstate System 10812
115 Inventory Costs 52931
116 Inventory in Transit 16170
117 Inventory Management 54018
118 Inventory Planning System 9623
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22015
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41649
121 JIT 2 18262
122 Job Production 26855
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8832
124 Kanban Squares 6673
125 Laid-Down Cost 9933
126 Lean Office 5853
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10765
128 Lee's Notation 8400
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13906
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36491
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9001
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7312
133 Logistics Channel 22623
134 Logistics Costs 26356
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6566
136 Manifest 10304
137 Marks and Numbers 12311
138 Material Planning 34703
139 Materials Management 26087
140 Milk Run 42621
141 Mini Land Bridge 14200
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9275
143 Modal Split 15074
144 Movement of Goods 19195
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31182
146 North West Corner Method 16683
147 Numeric Distribution 13915
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28221
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47974
150 Operational Efficiency 9747
151 Operational Objectives 13159
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17971
153 Operational Sustainability 27579
154 Operations Management 20070
155 Order Cancellation 10505
156 Order Cycle 18222
157 Order Cycle Time 23274
158 Order Fill Rate 33720
159 Order Fulfillment 6330
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10081
 
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