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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 43231
62 Date Code 17695
63 Days of Supply 19427
64 Dead on Arrival 8895
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7058
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7825
67 Detective Control 8674
68 Devanning 13957
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10566
70 Dispatching 23570
71 Distributed Inventory 8148
72 Distribution Channel Management 33981
73 Distribution Metrics 8674
74 Distribution Planning 23863
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14815
76 Double Marginalization 52137
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21963
78 Dual 5237
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20278
80 Echelon Inventory 25831
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37921
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48772
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7385
84 Efficient Frontier 24918
85 Engineer-to-Order 31212
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15892
87 Erlang B Formula 9061
88 ETD 8065
89 Ex Works 7658
90 Exception Rate 13108
91 Exponential smoothing 9590
92 External Growth 9803
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9188
94 Field Services 7571
95 Field Warehouse 9659
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8394
97 Fishbone Diagram 14282
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26482
99 Flow Through Distribution 12016
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7897
101 FOB Destination 12652
102 Forward buying 29680
103 Freight Charge 10076
104 Freight Consolidation 7298
105 Gantt Chart 8095
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11378
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29133
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12407
109 Hub 23010
110 Idle Time 7846
111 Import/Export License 8459
112 In Bond Shipment 13582
113 Inbound Logistics 13180
114 Interstate System 10764
115 Inventory Costs 52672
116 Inventory in Transit 16059
117 Inventory Management 53765
118 Inventory Planning System 9555
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21874
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41253
121 JIT 2 18189
122 Job Production 26535
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8735
124 Kanban Squares 6597
125 Laid-Down Cost 9872
126 Lean Office 5783
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10719
128 Lee's Notation 8334
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13785
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36212
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8937
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7233
133 Logistics Channel 22532
134 Logistics Costs 26252
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6522
136 Manifest 10210
137 Marks and Numbers 12241
138 Material Planning 34521
139 Materials Management 25997
140 Milk Run 42370
141 Mini Land Bridge 14104
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9154
143 Modal Split 14940
144 Movement of Goods 19095
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31031
146 North West Corner Method 16627
147 Numeric Distribution 13815
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28112
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47807
150 Operational Efficiency 9655
151 Operational Objectives 13090
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17919
153 Operational Sustainability 27443
154 Operations Management 19807
155 Order Cancellation 10385
156 Order Cycle 18143
157 Order Cycle Time 23157
158 Order Fill Rate 33590
159 Order Fulfillment 6269
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10022
 
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