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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 44290
62 Date Code 18331
63 Days of Supply 19915
64 Dead on Arrival 9396
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7353
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8168
67 Detective Control 8958
68 Devanning 14268
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11020
70 Dispatching 24630
71 Distributed Inventory 8407
72 Distribution Channel Management 34915
73 Distribution Metrics 9202
74 Distribution Planning 24269
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15298
76 Double Marginalization 52856
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22457
78 Dual 5473
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20678
80 Echelon Inventory 26272
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38331
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49909
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7666
84 Efficient Frontier 25584
85 Engineer-to-Order 31844
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16627
87 Erlang B Formula 9399
88 ETD 8374
89 Ex Works 7874
90 Exception Rate 13561
91 Exponential smoothing 9869
92 External Growth 10141
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9571
94 Field Services 7777
95 Field Warehouse 10663
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8853
97 Fishbone Diagram 14671
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27159
99 Flow Through Distribution 12372
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8232
101 FOB Destination 13116
102 Forward buying 30283
103 Freight Charge 10456
104 Freight Consolidation 7578
105 Gantt Chart 8331
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11798
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29664
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12748
109 Hub 23522
110 Idle Time 8116
111 Import/Export License 8780
112 In Bond Shipment 14029
113 Inbound Logistics 13654
114 Interstate System 11063
115 Inventory Costs 53846
116 Inventory in Transit 16598
117 Inventory Management 54992
118 Inventory Planning System 9917
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22377
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43080
121 JIT 2 18497
122 Job Production 27907
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9192
124 Kanban Squares 6886
125 Laid-Down Cost 10271
126 Lean Office 6172
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10889
128 Lee's Notation 8612
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14331
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37432
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9344
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7565
133 Logistics Channel 22981
134 Logistics Costs 26755
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6721
136 Manifest 10600
137 Marks and Numbers 12692
138 Material Planning 35224
139 Materials Management 26451
140 Milk Run 43223
141 Mini Land Bridge 14474
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9636
143 Modal Split 15502
144 Movement of Goods 19554
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31791
146 North West Corner Method 16912
147 Numeric Distribution 14299
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28639
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48599
150 Operational Efficiency 9994
151 Operational Objectives 13416
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18167
153 Operational Sustainability 28155
154 Operations Management 20946
155 Order Cancellation 10896
156 Order Cycle 18507
157 Order Cycle Time 23585
158 Order Fill Rate 34123
159 Order Fulfillment 6516
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10383
 
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