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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 44268
62 Date Code 18311
63 Days of Supply 19896
64 Dead on Arrival 9380
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7346
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8154
67 Detective Control 8945
68 Devanning 14254
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11008
70 Dispatching 24608
71 Distributed Inventory 8395
72 Distribution Channel Management 34881
73 Distribution Metrics 9186
74 Distribution Planning 24252
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15283
76 Double Marginalization 52837
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22445
78 Dual 5471
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20664
80 Echelon Inventory 26259
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38315
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49869
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7654
84 Efficient Frontier 25569
85 Engineer-to-Order 31831
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16609
87 Erlang B Formula 9387
88 ETD 8364
89 Ex Works 7864
90 Exception Rate 13545
91 Exponential smoothing 9859
92 External Growth 10126
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9558
94 Field Services 7768
95 Field Warehouse 10627
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8837
97 Fishbone Diagram 14657
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27136
99 Flow Through Distribution 12359
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8219
101 FOB Destination 13099
102 Forward buying 30259
103 Freight Charge 10445
104 Freight Consolidation 7569
105 Gantt Chart 8325
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11783
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29649
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12736
109 Hub 23501
110 Idle Time 8105
111 Import/Export License 8763
112 In Bond Shipment 14022
113 Inbound Logistics 13637
114 Interstate System 11048
115 Inventory Costs 53801
116 Inventory in Transit 16586
117 Inventory Management 54956
118 Inventory Planning System 9904
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22358
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43016
121 JIT 2 18489
122 Job Production 27861
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9178
124 Kanban Squares 6874
125 Laid-Down Cost 10255
126 Lean Office 6158
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10882
128 Lee's Notation 8603
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14312
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37406
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9330
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7559
133 Logistics Channel 22968
134 Logistics Costs 26741
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6715
136 Manifest 10584
137 Marks and Numbers 12672
138 Material Planning 35209
139 Materials Management 26432
140 Milk Run 43196
141 Mini Land Bridge 14460
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9616
143 Modal Split 15491
144 Movement of Goods 19543
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31765
146 North West Corner Method 16903
147 Numeric Distribution 14284
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28615
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48566
150 Operational Efficiency 9981
151 Operational Objectives 13403
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18158
153 Operational Sustainability 28135
154 Operations Management 20920
155 Order Cancellation 10882
156 Order Cycle 18494
157 Order Cycle Time 23570
158 Order Fill Rate 34100
159 Order Fulfillment 6507
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10369
 
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