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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 43997
62 Date Code 18127
63 Days of Supply 19752
64 Dead on Arrival 9175
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7258
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8054
67 Detective Control 8861
68 Devanning 14165
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10813
70 Dispatching 24349
71 Distributed Inventory 8303
72 Distribution Channel Management 34577
73 Distribution Metrics 9029
74 Distribution Planning 24130
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15139
76 Double Marginalization 52553
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22223
78 Dual 5403
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20533
80 Echelon Inventory 26110
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38194
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49509
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7565
84 Efficient Frontier 25366
85 Engineer-to-Order 31637
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16324
87 Erlang B Formula 9298
88 ETD 8277
89 Ex Works 7794
90 Exception Rate 13412
91 Exponential smoothing 9779
92 External Growth 10013
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9375
94 Field Services 7707
95 Field Warehouse 10204
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8697
97 Fishbone Diagram 14547
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26911
99 Flow Through Distribution 12253
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8114
101 FOB Destination 12963
102 Forward buying 29995
103 Freight Charge 10272
104 Freight Consolidation 7485
105 Gantt Chart 8250
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11664
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29487
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12623
109 Hub 23337
110 Idle Time 8016
111 Import/Export License 8662
112 In Bond Shipment 13865
113 Inbound Logistics 13506
114 Interstate System 10951
115 Inventory Costs 53411
116 Inventory in Transit 16365
117 Inventory Management 54548
118 Inventory Planning System 9738
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22223
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42435
121 JIT 2 18386
122 Job Production 27422
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8997
124 Kanban Squares 6789
125 Laid-Down Cost 10102
126 Lean Office 5977
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10829
128 Lee's Notation 8520
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14142
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37055
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9197
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7400
133 Logistics Channel 22825
134 Logistics Costs 26569
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6645
136 Manifest 10479
137 Marks and Numbers 12547
138 Material Planning 35001
139 Materials Management 26295
140 Milk Run 42989
141 Mini Land Bridge 14361
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9479
143 Modal Split 15345
144 Movement of Goods 19386
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31484
146 North West Corner Method 16817
147 Numeric Distribution 14141
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28462
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48309
150 Operational Efficiency 9894
151 Operational Objectives 13292
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18086
153 Operational Sustainability 27838
154 Operations Management 20546
155 Order Cancellation 10752
156 Order Cycle 18380
157 Order Cycle Time 23440
158 Order Fill Rate 33941
159 Order Fulfillment 6433
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10252
 
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