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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 44208
62 Date Code 18268
63 Days of Supply 19862
64 Dead on Arrival 9347
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7330
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8131
67 Detective Control 8928
68 Devanning 14231
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10986
70 Dispatching 24559
71 Distributed Inventory 8375
72 Distribution Channel Management 34801
73 Distribution Metrics 9146
74 Distribution Planning 24227
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15243
76 Double Marginalization 52786
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22406
78 Dual 5458
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20638
80 Echelon Inventory 26238
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38295
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49788
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7634
84 Efficient Frontier 25521
85 Engineer-to-Order 31787
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16557
87 Erlang B Formula 9365
88 ETD 8346
89 Ex Works 7849
90 Exception Rate 13516
91 Exponential smoothing 9845
92 External Growth 10098
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9534
94 Field Services 7757
95 Field Warehouse 10544
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8794
97 Fishbone Diagram 14629
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27075
99 Flow Through Distribution 12336
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8199
101 FOB Destination 13061
102 Forward buying 30207
103 Freight Charge 10428
104 Freight Consolidation 7547
105 Gantt Chart 8306
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11755
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29615
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12710
109 Hub 23464
110 Idle Time 8086
111 Import/Export License 8741
112 In Bond Shipment 13990
113 Inbound Logistics 13615
114 Interstate System 11029
115 Inventory Costs 53724
116 Inventory in Transit 16561
117 Inventory Management 54879
118 Inventory Planning System 9890
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22331
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42838
121 JIT 2 18464
122 Job Production 27763
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9164
124 Kanban Squares 6857
125 Laid-Down Cost 10215
126 Lean Office 6143
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10870
128 Lee's Notation 8582
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14269
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37339
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9302
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7546
133 Logistics Channel 22943
134 Logistics Costs 26712
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6704
136 Manifest 10559
137 Marks and Numbers 12634
138 Material Planning 35155
139 Materials Management 26400
140 Milk Run 43150
141 Mini Land Bridge 14441
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9588
143 Modal Split 15457
144 Movement of Goods 19513
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31702
146 North West Corner Method 16884
147 Numeric Distribution 14252
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28586
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48499
150 Operational Efficiency 9965
151 Operational Objectives 13382
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18138
153 Operational Sustainability 28070
154 Operations Management 20855
155 Order Cancellation 10854
156 Order Cycle 18467
157 Order Cycle Time 23547
158 Order Fill Rate 34061
159 Order Fulfillment 6490
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10340
 
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