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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 44238
62 Date Code 18295
63 Days of Supply 19880
64 Dead on Arrival 9363
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7337
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8146
67 Detective Control 8936
68 Devanning 14242
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10998
70 Dispatching 24587
71 Distributed Inventory 8385
72 Distribution Channel Management 34844
73 Distribution Metrics 9165
74 Distribution Planning 24238
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15264
76 Double Marginalization 52815
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22426
78 Dual 5464
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20648
80 Echelon Inventory 26248
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38306
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49828
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7643
84 Efficient Frontier 25550
85 Engineer-to-Order 31812
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16583
87 Erlang B Formula 9378
88 ETD 8356
89 Ex Works 7861
90 Exception Rate 13534
91 Exponential smoothing 9849
92 External Growth 10114
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9545
94 Field Services 7764
95 Field Warehouse 10591
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8817
97 Fishbone Diagram 14642
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27111
99 Flow Through Distribution 12350
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8205
101 FOB Destination 13081
102 Forward buying 30242
103 Freight Charge 10435
104 Freight Consolidation 7558
105 Gantt Chart 8316
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11768
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29630
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12725
109 Hub 23483
110 Idle Time 8098
111 Import/Export License 8750
112 In Bond Shipment 14006
113 Inbound Logistics 13625
114 Interstate System 11037
115 Inventory Costs 53762
116 Inventory in Transit 16574
117 Inventory Management 54926
118 Inventory Planning System 9898
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22344
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42946
121 JIT 2 18478
122 Job Production 27821
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9171
124 Kanban Squares 6861
125 Laid-Down Cost 10240
126 Lean Office 6149
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10876
128 Lee's Notation 8591
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14289
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37378
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9316
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7551
133 Logistics Channel 22955
134 Logistics Costs 26730
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6712
136 Manifest 10572
137 Marks and Numbers 12652
138 Material Planning 35188
139 Materials Management 26414
140 Milk Run 43175
141 Mini Land Bridge 14449
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9602
143 Modal Split 15476
144 Movement of Goods 19528
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31739
146 North West Corner Method 16895
147 Numeric Distribution 14270
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28603
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48533
150 Operational Efficiency 9973
151 Operational Objectives 13390
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18150
153 Operational Sustainability 28108
154 Operations Management 20900
155 Order Cancellation 10868
156 Order Cycle 18483
157 Order Cycle Time 23558
158 Order Fill Rate 34087
159 Order Fulfillment 6498
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10356
 
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