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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 43767
62 Date Code 18002
63 Days of Supply 19662
64 Dead on Arrival 9079
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7194
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7982
67 Detective Control 8791
68 Devanning 14103
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10733
70 Dispatching 24085
71 Distributed Inventory 8252
72 Distribution Channel Management 34398
73 Distribution Metrics 8915
74 Distribution Planning 24044
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15029
76 Double Marginalization 52414
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22138
78 Dual 5356
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20446
80 Echelon Inventory 25992
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38107
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49276
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7507
84 Efficient Frontier 25226
85 Engineer-to-Order 31504
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16187
87 Erlang B Formula 9222
88 ETD 8207
89 Ex Works 7747
90 Exception Rate 13311
91 Exponential smoothing 9727
92 External Growth 9937
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9314
94 Field Services 7657
95 Field Warehouse 9827
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8606
97 Fishbone Diagram 14467
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26780
99 Flow Through Distribution 12171
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8044
101 FOB Destination 12872
102 Forward buying 29889
103 Freight Charge 10211
104 Freight Consolidation 7425
105 Gantt Chart 8202
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11577
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29367
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12549
109 Hub 23229
110 Idle Time 7959
111 Import/Export License 8596
112 In Bond Shipment 13757
113 Inbound Logistics 13400
114 Interstate System 10878
115 Inventory Costs 53182
116 Inventory in Transit 16277
117 Inventory Management 54306
118 Inventory Planning System 9683
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22116
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42031
121 JIT 2 18318
122 Job Production 27146
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8919
124 Kanban Squares 6736
125 Laid-Down Cost 10015
126 Lean Office 5921
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10792
128 Lee's Notation 8462
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14027
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36765
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9096
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7353
133 Logistics Channel 22730
134 Logistics Costs 26462
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6609
136 Manifest 10397
137 Marks and Numbers 12430
138 Material Planning 34874
139 Materials Management 26203
140 Milk Run 42809
141 Mini Land Bridge 14273
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9371
143 Modal Split 15223
144 Movement of Goods 19289
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31326
146 North West Corner Method 16755
147 Numeric Distribution 14013
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28345
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48137
150 Operational Efficiency 9827
151 Operational Objectives 13230
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18025
153 Operational Sustainability 27698
154 Operations Management 20315
155 Order Cancellation 10646
156 Order Cycle 18308
157 Order Cycle Time 23369
158 Order Fill Rate 33827
159 Order Fulfillment 6380
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10162
 
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