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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 44384
62 Date Code 18404
63 Days of Supply 19955
64 Dead on Arrival 9436
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7383
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8204
67 Detective Control 8994
68 Devanning 14302
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11060
70 Dispatching 24705
71 Distributed Inventory 8434
72 Distribution Channel Management 35022
73 Distribution Metrics 9255
74 Distribution Planning 24316
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15350
76 Double Marginalization 52922
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22501
78 Dual 5494
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20717
80 Echelon Inventory 26331
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38374
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50015
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7692
84 Efficient Frontier 25639
85 Engineer-to-Order 31898
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16686
87 Erlang B Formula 9426
88 ETD 8405
89 Ex Works 7896
90 Exception Rate 13611
91 Exponential smoothing 9900
92 External Growth 10175
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9602
94 Field Services 7797
95 Field Warehouse 10800
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8899
97 Fishbone Diagram 14704
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27230
99 Flow Through Distribution 12416
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8275
101 FOB Destination 13156
102 Forward buying 30345
103 Freight Charge 10492
104 Freight Consolidation 7597
105 Gantt Chart 8350
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11840
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29707
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12785
109 Hub 23567
110 Idle Time 8145
111 Import/Export License 8809
112 In Bond Shipment 14078
113 Inbound Logistics 13693
114 Interstate System 11094
115 Inventory Costs 53958
116 Inventory in Transit 16651
117 Inventory Management 55098
118 Inventory Planning System 9947
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22424
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43196
121 JIT 2 18533
122 Job Production 28041
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9227
124 Kanban Squares 6927
125 Laid-Down Cost 10311
126 Lean Office 6209
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10903
128 Lee's Notation 8632
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14384
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37516
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9381
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7591
133 Logistics Channel 23024
134 Logistics Costs 26817
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6739
136 Manifest 10642
137 Marks and Numbers 12737
138 Material Planning 35290
139 Materials Management 26499
140 Milk Run 43292
141 Mini Land Bridge 14514
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9684
143 Modal Split 15549
144 Movement of Goods 19602
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31848
146 North West Corner Method 16942
147 Numeric Distribution 14346
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28687
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48687
150 Operational Efficiency 10021
151 Operational Objectives 13455
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18191
153 Operational Sustainability 28209
154 Operations Management 21013
155 Order Cancellation 10929
156 Order Cycle 18542
157 Order Cycle Time 23626
158 Order Fill Rate 34168
159 Order Fulfillment 6546
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10420
 
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