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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 44510
62 Date Code 18511
63 Days of Supply 20002
64 Dead on Arrival 9480
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7416
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8242
67 Detective Control 9034
68 Devanning 14337
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11098
70 Dispatching 24782
71 Distributed Inventory 8464
72 Distribution Channel Management 35112
73 Distribution Metrics 9307
74 Distribution Planning 24369
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15404
76 Double Marginalization 52996
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22555
78 Dual 5520
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20751
80 Echelon Inventory 26414
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38434
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50137
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7726
84 Efficient Frontier 25715
85 Engineer-to-Order 31957
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16777
87 Erlang B Formula 9464
88 ETD 8435
89 Ex Works 7926
90 Exception Rate 13659
91 Exponential smoothing 9930
92 External Growth 10218
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9641
94 Field Services 7823
95 Field Warehouse 10946
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8955
97 Fishbone Diagram 14752
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27302
99 Flow Through Distribution 12463
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8315
101 FOB Destination 13204
102 Forward buying 30397
103 Freight Charge 10515
104 Freight Consolidation 7622
105 Gantt Chart 8373
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11898
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29755
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12821
109 Hub 23616
110 Idle Time 8169
111 Import/Export License 8836
112 In Bond Shipment 14115
113 Inbound Logistics 13738
114 Interstate System 11122
115 Inventory Costs 54057
116 Inventory in Transit 16711
117 Inventory Management 55224
118 Inventory Planning System 9981
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22492
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43362
121 JIT 2 18561
122 Job Production 28207
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9261
124 Kanban Squares 6963
125 Laid-Down Cost 10365
126 Lean Office 6241
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10917
128 Lee's Notation 8653
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14446
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37627
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9427
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7613
133 Logistics Channel 23063
134 Logistics Costs 26872
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6762
136 Manifest 10682
137 Marks and Numbers 12788
138 Material Planning 35350
139 Materials Management 26547
140 Milk Run 43361
141 Mini Land Bridge 14555
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9727
143 Modal Split 15591
144 Movement of Goods 19682
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31919
146 North West Corner Method 16969
147 Numeric Distribution 14386
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28742
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48796
150 Operational Efficiency 10052
151 Operational Objectives 13483
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18211
153 Operational Sustainability 28282
154 Operations Management 21090
155 Order Cancellation 10974
156 Order Cycle 18576
157 Order Cycle Time 23673
158 Order Fill Rate 34221
159 Order Fulfillment 6571
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10466
 
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