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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 43330
62 Date Code 17738
63 Days of Supply 19470
64 Dead on Arrival 8932
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7080
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7859
67 Detective Control 8692
68 Devanning 13989
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10597
70 Dispatching 23646
71 Distributed Inventory 8168
72 Distribution Channel Management 34059
73 Distribution Metrics 8720
74 Distribution Planning 23901
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14859
76 Double Marginalization 52203
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21995
78 Dual 5267
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20301
80 Echelon Inventory 25863
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37959
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48874
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7409
84 Efficient Frontier 24980
85 Engineer-to-Order 31262
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15961
87 Erlang B Formula 9100
88 ETD 8090
89 Ex Works 7674
90 Exception Rate 13152
91 Exponential smoothing 9614
92 External Growth 9830
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9212
94 Field Services 7584
95 Field Warehouse 9692
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8435
97 Fishbone Diagram 14307
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26531
99 Flow Through Distribution 12052
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7927
101 FOB Destination 12683
102 Forward buying 29723
103 Freight Charge 10102
104 Freight Consolidation 7325
105 Gantt Chart 8117
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11421
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29183
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12429
109 Hub 23055
110 Idle Time 7867
111 Import/Export License 8482
112 In Bond Shipment 13615
113 Inbound Logistics 13220
114 Interstate System 10780
115 Inventory Costs 52773
116 Inventory in Transit 16105
117 Inventory Management 53859
118 Inventory Planning System 9586
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21930
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41407
121 JIT 2 18214
122 Job Production 26653
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8767
124 Kanban Squares 6622
125 Laid-Down Cost 9892
126 Lean Office 5808
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10738
128 Lee's Notation 8361
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13830
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36307
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8959
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7274
133 Logistics Channel 22569
134 Logistics Costs 26290
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6541
136 Manifest 10242
137 Marks and Numbers 12261
138 Material Planning 34584
139 Materials Management 26034
140 Milk Run 42454
141 Mini Land Bridge 14135
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9195
143 Modal Split 14987
144 Movement of Goods 19133
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31073
146 North West Corner Method 16649
147 Numeric Distribution 13855
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28152
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47863
150 Operational Efficiency 9684
151 Operational Objectives 13114
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17934
153 Operational Sustainability 27502
154 Operations Management 19893
155 Order Cancellation 10421
156 Order Cycle 18171
157 Order Cycle Time 23196
158 Order Fill Rate 33642
159 Order Fulfillment 6290
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10045
 
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