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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 43981
62 Date Code 18115
63 Days of Supply 19746
64 Dead on Arrival 9163
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7255
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8047
67 Detective Control 8859
68 Devanning 14160
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10805
70 Dispatching 24335
71 Distributed Inventory 8300
72 Distribution Channel Management 34559
73 Distribution Metrics 9020
74 Distribution Planning 24126
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15127
76 Double Marginalization 52540
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22217
78 Dual 5399
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20527
80 Echelon Inventory 26098
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38187
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49489
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7562
84 Efficient Frontier 25357
85 Engineer-to-Order 31628
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16313
87 Erlang B Formula 9294
88 ETD 8274
89 Ex Works 7790
90 Exception Rate 13405
91 Exponential smoothing 9776
92 External Growth 10009
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9373
94 Field Services 7703
95 Field Warehouse 10177
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8690
97 Fishbone Diagram 14540
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26900
99 Flow Through Distribution 12245
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8111
101 FOB Destination 12957
102 Forward buying 29984
103 Freight Charge 10266
104 Freight Consolidation 7480
105 Gantt Chart 8244
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11655
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29477
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12620
109 Hub 23326
110 Idle Time 8009
111 Import/Export License 8657
112 In Bond Shipment 13854
113 Inbound Logistics 13495
114 Interstate System 10946
115 Inventory Costs 53398
116 Inventory in Transit 16357
117 Inventory Management 54530
118 Inventory Planning System 9733
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22215
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42392
121 JIT 2 18380
122 Job Production 27400
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8991
124 Kanban Squares 6784
125 Laid-Down Cost 10094
126 Lean Office 5975
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10828
128 Lee's Notation 8516
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14128
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37028
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9187
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7396
133 Logistics Channel 22817
134 Logistics Costs 26560
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6644
136 Manifest 10475
137 Marks and Numbers 12540
138 Material Planning 34991
139 Materials Management 26288
140 Milk Run 42972
141 Mini Land Bridge 14353
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9469
143 Modal Split 15337
144 Movement of Goods 19378
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31468
146 North West Corner Method 16811
147 Numeric Distribution 14132
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28455
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48294
150 Operational Efficiency 9887
151 Operational Objectives 13288
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18083
153 Operational Sustainability 27820
154 Operations Management 20530
155 Order Cancellation 10743
156 Order Cycle 18378
157 Order Cycle Time 23436
158 Order Fill Rate 33935
159 Order Fulfillment 6431
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10240
 
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