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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 44152
62 Date Code 18231
63 Days of Supply 19838
64 Dead on Arrival 9323
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7311
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8108
67 Detective Control 8911
68 Devanning 14211
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10956
70 Dispatching 24517
71 Distributed Inventory 8357
72 Distribution Channel Management 34748
73 Distribution Metrics 9117
74 Distribution Planning 24201
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15216
76 Double Marginalization 52734
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22380
78 Dual 5442
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20613
80 Echelon Inventory 26205
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38269
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49731
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7616
84 Efficient Frontier 25484
85 Engineer-to-Order 31741
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16523
87 Erlang B Formula 9348
88 ETD 8333
89 Ex Works 7835
90 Exception Rate 13494
91 Exponential smoothing 9830
92 External Growth 10075
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9519
94 Field Services 7742
95 Field Warehouse 10457
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8762
97 Fishbone Diagram 14607
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27036
99 Flow Through Distribution 12309
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8178
101 FOB Destination 13032
102 Forward buying 30164
103 Freight Charge 10412
104 Freight Consolidation 7531
105 Gantt Chart 8289
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11735
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29590
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12683
109 Hub 23430
110 Idle Time 8070
111 Import/Export License 8722
112 In Bond Shipment 13957
113 Inbound Logistics 13584
114 Interstate System 11006
115 Inventory Costs 53631
116 Inventory in Transit 16531
117 Inventory Management 54803
118 Inventory Planning System 9871
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22301
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42720
121 JIT 2 18440
122 Job Production 27679
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9144
124 Kanban Squares 6837
125 Laid-Down Cost 10189
126 Lean Office 6125
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10860
128 Lee's Notation 8570
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14229
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37283
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9274
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7530
133 Logistics Channel 22914
134 Logistics Costs 26684
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6691
136 Manifest 10537
137 Marks and Numbers 12606
138 Material Planning 35106
139 Materials Management 26373
140 Milk Run 43112
141 Mini Land Bridge 14420
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9567
143 Modal Split 15425
144 Movement of Goods 19483
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31647
146 North West Corner Method 16872
147 Numeric Distribution 14231
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28552
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48449
150 Operational Efficiency 9947
151 Operational Objectives 13355
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18125
153 Operational Sustainability 28023
154 Operations Management 20781
155 Order Cancellation 10828
156 Order Cycle 18449
157 Order Cycle Time 23518
158 Order Fill Rate 34035
159 Order Fulfillment 6475
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10319
 
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