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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 44166
62 Date Code 18238
63 Days of Supply 19842
64 Dead on Arrival 9329
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7315
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8113
67 Detective Control 8917
68 Devanning 14218
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10964
70 Dispatching 24526
71 Distributed Inventory 8360
72 Distribution Channel Management 34758
73 Distribution Metrics 9124
74 Distribution Planning 24204
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15220
76 Double Marginalization 52753
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22385
78 Dual 5445
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20619
80 Echelon Inventory 26213
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38276
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49741
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7622
84 Efficient Frontier 25493
85 Engineer-to-Order 31758
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16527
87 Erlang B Formula 9350
88 ETD 8337
89 Ex Works 7838
90 Exception Rate 13498
91 Exponential smoothing 9834
92 External Growth 10078
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9525
94 Field Services 7744
95 Field Warehouse 10472
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8768
97 Fishbone Diagram 14612
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27042
99 Flow Through Distribution 12312
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8184
101 FOB Destination 13036
102 Forward buying 30170
103 Freight Charge 10413
104 Freight Consolidation 7535
105 Gantt Chart 8291
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11737
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29594
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12686
109 Hub 23438
110 Idle Time 8073
111 Import/Export License 8725
112 In Bond Shipment 13961
113 Inbound Logistics 13590
114 Interstate System 11009
115 Inventory Costs 53644
116 Inventory in Transit 16537
117 Inventory Management 54817
118 Inventory Planning System 9874
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22308
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42745
121 JIT 2 18445
122 Job Production 27694
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9150
124 Kanban Squares 6840
125 Laid-Down Cost 10194
126 Lean Office 6129
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10861
128 Lee's Notation 8573
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14238
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37295
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9277
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7532
133 Logistics Channel 22921
134 Logistics Costs 26693
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6693
136 Manifest 10541
137 Marks and Numbers 12612
138 Material Planning 35111
139 Materials Management 26382
140 Milk Run 43120
141 Mini Land Bridge 14424
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9570
143 Modal Split 15429
144 Movement of Goods 19488
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31659
146 North West Corner Method 16874
147 Numeric Distribution 14236
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28559
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48458
150 Operational Efficiency 9948
151 Operational Objectives 13357
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18127
153 Operational Sustainability 28033
154 Operations Management 20797
155 Order Cancellation 10832
156 Order Cycle 18452
157 Order Cycle Time 23524
158 Order Fill Rate 34040
159 Order Fulfillment 6479
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10323
 
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