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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 43483
62 Date Code 17819
63 Days of Supply 19538
64 Dead on Arrival 8980
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7115
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7898
67 Detective Control 8725
68 Devanning 14027
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10643
70 Dispatching 23774
71 Distributed Inventory 8193
72 Distribution Channel Management 34169
73 Distribution Metrics 8784
74 Distribution Planning 23949
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14916
76 Double Marginalization 52293
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22041
78 Dual 5304
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20351
80 Echelon Inventory 25902
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38008
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49026
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7441
84 Efficient Frontier 25061
85 Engineer-to-Order 31343
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16025
87 Erlang B Formula 9144
88 ETD 8121
89 Ex Works 7695
90 Exception Rate 13202
91 Exponential smoothing 9651
92 External Growth 9858
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9243
94 Field Services 7607
95 Field Warehouse 9728
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8495
97 Fishbone Diagram 14365
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26615
99 Flow Through Distribution 12094
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7964
101 FOB Destination 12739
102 Forward buying 29787
103 Freight Charge 10134
104 Freight Consolidation 7362
105 Gantt Chart 8141
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11490
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29243
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12468
109 Hub 23112
110 Idle Time 7895
111 Import/Export License 8521
112 In Bond Shipment 13671
113 Inbound Logistics 13270
114 Interstate System 10804
115 Inventory Costs 52907
116 Inventory in Transit 16161
117 Inventory Management 53998
118 Inventory Planning System 9619
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22004
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41616
121 JIT 2 18254
122 Job Production 26822
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8820
124 Kanban Squares 6665
125 Laid-Down Cost 9928
126 Lean Office 5845
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10760
128 Lee's Notation 8396
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13897
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36464
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8996
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7305
133 Logistics Channel 22615
134 Logistics Costs 26349
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6563
136 Manifest 10295
137 Marks and Numbers 12303
138 Material Planning 34682
139 Materials Management 26078
140 Milk Run 42589
141 Mini Land Bridge 14190
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9260
143 Modal Split 15065
144 Movement of Goods 19186
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31170
146 North West Corner Method 16674
147 Numeric Distribution 13905
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28206
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47959
150 Operational Efficiency 9741
151 Operational Objectives 13152
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17965
153 Operational Sustainability 27569
154 Operations Management 20041
155 Order Cancellation 10488
156 Order Cycle 18213
157 Order Cycle Time 23264
158 Order Fill Rate 33707
159 Order Fulfillment 6322
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10072
 
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