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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 43720
62 Date Code 17960
63 Days of Supply 19633
64 Dead on Arrival 9060
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7174
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7966
67 Detective Control 8776
68 Devanning 14087
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10711
70 Dispatching 24021
71 Distributed Inventory 8239
72 Distribution Channel Management 34362
73 Distribution Metrics 8893
74 Distribution Planning 24024
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15004
76 Double Marginalization 52391
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22122
78 Dual 5347
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20426
80 Echelon Inventory 25972
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38084
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49221
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7495
84 Efficient Frontier 25197
85 Engineer-to-Order 31474
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16144
87 Erlang B Formula 9207
88 ETD 8188
89 Ex Works 7739
90 Exception Rate 13287
91 Exponential smoothing 9712
92 External Growth 9919
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9297
94 Field Services 7647
95 Field Warehouse 9789
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8580
97 Fishbone Diagram 14449
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26746
99 Flow Through Distribution 12154
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8032
101 FOB Destination 12847
102 Forward buying 29862
103 Freight Charge 10197
104 Freight Consolidation 7415
105 Gantt Chart 8189
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11557
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29347
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12534
109 Hub 23207
110 Idle Time 7946
111 Import/Export License 8584
112 In Bond Shipment 13742
113 Inbound Logistics 13377
114 Interstate System 10863
115 Inventory Costs 53136
116 Inventory in Transit 16253
117 Inventory Management 54234
118 Inventory Planning System 9671
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22097
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41950
121 JIT 2 18309
122 Job Production 27071
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8900
124 Kanban Squares 6722
125 Laid-Down Cost 10005
126 Lean Office 5904
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10784
128 Lee's Notation 8447
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13999
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36694
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9075
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7345
133 Logistics Channel 22713
134 Logistics Costs 26435
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6600
136 Manifest 10379
137 Marks and Numbers 12396
138 Material Planning 34836
139 Materials Management 26180
140 Milk Run 42771
141 Mini Land Bridge 14257
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9345
143 Modal Split 15189
144 Movement of Goods 19264
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31298
146 North West Corner Method 16740
147 Numeric Distribution 13990
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28316
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48095
150 Operational Efficiency 9809
151 Operational Objectives 13213
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18012
153 Operational Sustainability 27665
154 Operations Management 20259
155 Order Cancellation 10617
156 Order Cycle 18286
157 Order Cycle Time 23345
158 Order Fill Rate 33797
159 Order Fulfillment 6367
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10144
 
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