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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 43859
62 Date Code 18054
63 Days of Supply 19691
64 Dead on Arrival 9109
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7218
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8003
67 Detective Control 8816
68 Devanning 14125
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10762
70 Dispatching 24199
71 Distributed Inventory 8273
72 Distribution Channel Management 34472
73 Distribution Metrics 8962
74 Distribution Planning 24077
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15073
76 Double Marginalization 52469
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22169
78 Dual 5375
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20483
80 Echelon Inventory 26037
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38141
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49373
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7528
84 Efficient Frontier 25285
85 Engineer-to-Order 31562
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16245
87 Erlang B Formula 9250
88 ETD 8238
89 Ex Works 7768
90 Exception Rate 13346
91 Exponential smoothing 9747
92 External Growth 9961
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9339
94 Field Services 7675
95 Field Warehouse 9929
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8642
97 Fishbone Diagram 14503
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26832
99 Flow Through Distribution 12203
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8073
101 FOB Destination 12915
102 Forward buying 29926
103 Freight Charge 10235
104 Freight Consolidation 7446
105 Gantt Chart 8215
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11612
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29410
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12576
109 Hub 23272
110 Idle Time 7980
111 Import/Export License 8622
112 In Bond Shipment 13794
113 Inbound Logistics 13440
114 Interstate System 10907
115 Inventory Costs 53280
116 Inventory in Transit 16308
117 Inventory Management 54418
118 Inventory Planning System 9708
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22156
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42193
121 JIT 2 18344
122 Job Production 27258
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8949
124 Kanban Squares 6753
125 Laid-Down Cost 10049
126 Lean Office 5944
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10803
128 Lee's Notation 8489
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14073
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36886
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9138
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7372
133 Logistics Channel 22767
134 Logistics Costs 26500
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6623
136 Manifest 10433
137 Marks and Numbers 12473
138 Material Planning 34930
139 Materials Management 26237
140 Milk Run 42876
141 Mini Land Bridge 14314
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9408
143 Modal Split 15275
144 Movement of Goods 19330
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31385
146 North West Corner Method 16776
147 Numeric Distribution 14065
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28399
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48205
150 Operational Efficiency 9850
151 Operational Objectives 13252
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18054
153 Operational Sustainability 27749
154 Operations Management 20424
155 Order Cancellation 10694
156 Order Cycle 18341
157 Order Cycle Time 23404
158 Order Fill Rate 33878
159 Order Fulfillment 6399
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10194
 
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