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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 43244
62 Date Code 17701
63 Days of Supply 19433
64 Dead on Arrival 8899
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7061
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7829
67 Detective Control 8676
68 Devanning 13962
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10569
70 Dispatching 23576
71 Distributed Inventory 8152
72 Distribution Channel Management 33990
73 Distribution Metrics 8678
74 Distribution Planning 23871
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14819
76 Double Marginalization 52143
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21967
78 Dual 5240
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20281
80 Echelon Inventory 25837
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37926
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48787
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7390
84 Efficient Frontier 24925
85 Engineer-to-Order 31220
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15901
87 Erlang B Formula 9064
88 ETD 8067
89 Ex Works 7660
90 Exception Rate 13113
91 Exponential smoothing 9592
92 External Growth 9807
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9189
94 Field Services 7572
95 Field Warehouse 9665
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8399
97 Fishbone Diagram 14285
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26486
99 Flow Through Distribution 12019
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7902
101 FOB Destination 12657
102 Forward buying 29682
103 Freight Charge 10079
104 Freight Consolidation 7299
105 Gantt Chart 8099
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11381
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29137
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12407
109 Hub 23015
110 Idle Time 7850
111 Import/Export License 8459
112 In Bond Shipment 13585
113 Inbound Logistics 13185
114 Interstate System 10764
115 Inventory Costs 52682
116 Inventory in Transit 16064
117 Inventory Management 53776
118 Inventory Planning System 9559
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21879
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41272
121 JIT 2 18193
122 Job Production 26550
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8739
124 Kanban Squares 6598
125 Laid-Down Cost 9873
126 Lean Office 5784
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10720
128 Lee's Notation 8335
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13790
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36222
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8938
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7237
133 Logistics Channel 22534
134 Logistics Costs 26254
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6524
136 Manifest 10214
137 Marks and Numbers 12245
138 Material Planning 34527
139 Materials Management 26003
140 Milk Run 42379
141 Mini Land Bridge 14106
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9157
143 Modal Split 14945
144 Movement of Goods 19098
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31035
146 North West Corner Method 16628
147 Numeric Distribution 13818
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28116
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47813
150 Operational Efficiency 9658
151 Operational Objectives 13092
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17922
153 Operational Sustainability 27447
154 Operations Management 19816
155 Order Cancellation 10387
156 Order Cycle 18151
157 Order Cycle Time 23163
158 Order Fill Rate 33599
159 Order Fulfillment 6270
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10026
 
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