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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 43418
62 Date Code 17779
63 Days of Supply 19511
64 Dead on Arrival 8958
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7093
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7884
67 Detective Control 8706
68 Devanning 14008
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10623
70 Dispatching 23718
71 Distributed Inventory 8185
72 Distribution Channel Management 34123
73 Distribution Metrics 8752
74 Distribution Planning 23930
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14885
76 Double Marginalization 52262
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22020
78 Dual 5295
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20322
80 Echelon Inventory 25886
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37984
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48955
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7431
84 Efficient Frontier 25022
85 Engineer-to-Order 31306
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15992
87 Erlang B Formula 9129
88 ETD 8107
89 Ex Works 7686
90 Exception Rate 13182
91 Exponential smoothing 9630
92 External Growth 9844
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9230
94 Field Services 7598
95 Field Warehouse 9712
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8474
97 Fishbone Diagram 14338
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26575
99 Flow Through Distribution 12079
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7953
101 FOB Destination 12715
102 Forward buying 29764
103 Freight Charge 10123
104 Freight Consolidation 7351
105 Gantt Chart 8129
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11469
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29223
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12449
109 Hub 23093
110 Idle Time 7884
111 Import/Export License 8505
112 In Bond Shipment 13646
113 Inbound Logistics 13250
114 Interstate System 10796
115 Inventory Costs 52851
116 Inventory in Transit 16132
117 Inventory Management 53934
118 Inventory Planning System 9606
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21972
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41530
121 JIT 2 18238
122 Job Production 26752
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8799
124 Kanban Squares 6650
125 Laid-Down Cost 9910
126 Lean Office 5831
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10758
128 Lee's Notation 8379
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13870
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36383
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8983
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7294
133 Logistics Channel 22596
134 Logistics Costs 26323
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6553
136 Manifest 10272
137 Marks and Numbers 12284
138 Material Planning 34636
139 Materials Management 26060
140 Milk Run 42529
141 Mini Land Bridge 14164
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9235
143 Modal Split 15032
144 Movement of Goods 19166
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31129
146 North West Corner Method 16667
147 Numeric Distribution 13885
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28182
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47915
150 Operational Efficiency 9722
151 Operational Objectives 13136
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17953
153 Operational Sustainability 27539
154 Operations Management 19983
155 Order Cancellation 10460
156 Order Cycle 18194
157 Order Cycle Time 23231
158 Order Fill Rate 33683
159 Order Fulfillment 6309
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10058
 
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