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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 43300
62 Date Code 17724
63 Days of Supply 19456
64 Dead on Arrival 8921
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7074
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7849
67 Detective Control 8685
68 Devanning 13981
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10587
70 Dispatching 23622
71 Distributed Inventory 8161
72 Distribution Channel Management 34034
73 Distribution Metrics 8705
74 Distribution Planning 23894
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14844
76 Double Marginalization 52175
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21985
78 Dual 5258
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20295
80 Echelon Inventory 25854
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37946
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48840
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7400
84 Efficient Frontier 24957
85 Engineer-to-Order 31250
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15937
87 Erlang B Formula 9087
88 ETD 8078
89 Ex Works 7668
90 Exception Rate 13138
91 Exponential smoothing 9604
92 External Growth 9817
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9202
94 Field Services 7579
95 Field Warehouse 9680
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8421
97 Fishbone Diagram 14298
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26511
99 Flow Through Distribution 12037
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7920
101 FOB Destination 12673
102 Forward buying 29708
103 Freight Charge 10092
104 Freight Consolidation 7315
105 Gantt Chart 8108
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11410
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29169
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12421
109 Hub 23045
110 Idle Time 7862
111 Import/Export License 8474
112 In Bond Shipment 13608
113 Inbound Logistics 13206
114 Interstate System 10772
115 Inventory Costs 52736
116 Inventory in Transit 16090
117 Inventory Management 53827
118 Inventory Planning System 9577
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21910
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41355
121 JIT 2 18203
122 Job Production 26612
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8757
124 Kanban Squares 6614
125 Laid-Down Cost 9883
126 Lean Office 5798
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10732
128 Lee's Notation 8349
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13813
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36272
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8950
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7257
133 Logistics Channel 22557
134 Logistics Costs 26276
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6533
136 Manifest 10231
137 Marks and Numbers 12257
138 Material Planning 34561
139 Materials Management 26019
140 Milk Run 42424
141 Mini Land Bridge 14124
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9181
143 Modal Split 14974
144 Movement of Goods 19121
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31059
146 North West Corner Method 16642
147 Numeric Distribution 13842
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28136
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47844
150 Operational Efficiency 9674
151 Operational Objectives 13105
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17927
153 Operational Sustainability 27480
154 Operations Management 19862
155 Order Cancellation 10409
156 Order Cycle 18162
157 Order Cycle Time 23185
158 Order Fill Rate 33622
159 Order Fulfillment 6281
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10039
 
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