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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 43784
62 Date Code 18016
63 Days of Supply 19669
64 Dead on Arrival 9087
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7199
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7988
67 Detective Control 8796
68 Devanning 14111
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10739
70 Dispatching 24116
71 Distributed Inventory 8254
72 Distribution Channel Management 34408
73 Distribution Metrics 8927
74 Distribution Planning 24052
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15040
76 Double Marginalization 52428
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22146
78 Dual 5363
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20455
80 Echelon Inventory 26002
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38116
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49303
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7511
84 Efficient Frontier 25238
85 Engineer-to-Order 31518
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16199
87 Erlang B Formula 9229
88 ETD 8213
89 Ex Works 7753
90 Exception Rate 13318
91 Exponential smoothing 9730
92 External Growth 9945
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9319
94 Field Services 7661
95 Field Warehouse 9852
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8613
97 Fishbone Diagram 14476
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26789
99 Flow Through Distribution 12178
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8048
101 FOB Destination 12882
102 Forward buying 29896
103 Freight Charge 10218
104 Freight Consolidation 7432
105 Gantt Chart 8206
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11587
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29376
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12559
109 Hub 23239
110 Idle Time 7965
111 Import/Export License 8605
112 In Bond Shipment 13766
113 Inbound Logistics 13408
114 Interstate System 10886
115 Inventory Costs 53203
116 Inventory in Transit 16283
117 Inventory Management 54334
118 Inventory Planning System 9689
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22123
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42072
121 JIT 2 18324
122 Job Production 27177
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8927
124 Kanban Squares 6742
125 Laid-Down Cost 10024
126 Lean Office 5927
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10796
128 Lee's Notation 8466
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14038
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36801
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9107
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7361
133 Logistics Channel 22741
134 Logistics Costs 26472
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6615
136 Manifest 10406
137 Marks and Numbers 12438
138 Material Planning 34888
139 Materials Management 26211
140 Milk Run 42830
141 Mini Land Bridge 14284
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9381
143 Modal Split 15241
144 Movement of Goods 19300
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31344
146 North West Corner Method 16763
147 Numeric Distribution 14024
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28360
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48154
150 Operational Efficiency 9830
151 Operational Objectives 13236
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18035
153 Operational Sustainability 27709
154 Operations Management 20346
155 Order Cancellation 10662
156 Order Cycle 18319
157 Order Cycle Time 23379
158 Order Fill Rate 33838
159 Order Fulfillment 6382
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10171
 
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