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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 44516
62 Date Code 18515
63 Days of Supply 20007
64 Dead on Arrival 9485
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7421
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8245
67 Detective Control 9039
68 Devanning 14340
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11103
70 Dispatching 24789
71 Distributed Inventory 8467
72 Distribution Channel Management 35116
73 Distribution Metrics 9311
74 Distribution Planning 24369
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15407
76 Double Marginalization 53003
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22559
78 Dual 5525
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20753
80 Echelon Inventory 26422
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38437
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50144
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7729
84 Efficient Frontier 25717
85 Engineer-to-Order 31960
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16780
87 Erlang B Formula 9465
88 ETD 8440
89 Ex Works 7927
90 Exception Rate 13663
91 Exponential smoothing 9933
92 External Growth 10221
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9647
94 Field Services 7825
95 Field Warehouse 10955
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8959
97 Fishbone Diagram 14757
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27311
99 Flow Through Distribution 12465
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8318
101 FOB Destination 13207
102 Forward buying 30400
103 Freight Charge 10515
104 Freight Consolidation 7624
105 Gantt Chart 8374
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11901
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29758
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12825
109 Hub 23619
110 Idle Time 8172
111 Import/Export License 8840
112 In Bond Shipment 14117
113 Inbound Logistics 13740
114 Interstate System 11126
115 Inventory Costs 54067
116 Inventory in Transit 16715
117 Inventory Management 55232
118 Inventory Planning System 9983
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22493
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43375
121 JIT 2 18564
122 Job Production 28214
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9266
124 Kanban Squares 6965
125 Laid-Down Cost 10367
126 Lean Office 6245
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10918
128 Lee's Notation 8654
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14446
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37632
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9430
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7615
133 Logistics Channel 23064
134 Logistics Costs 26874
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6763
136 Manifest 10684
137 Marks and Numbers 12794
138 Material Planning 35356
139 Materials Management 26547
140 Milk Run 43364
141 Mini Land Bridge 14557
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9729
143 Modal Split 15594
144 Movement of Goods 19686
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31923
146 North West Corner Method 16974
147 Numeric Distribution 14390
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28746
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48799
150 Operational Efficiency 10055
151 Operational Objectives 13484
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18212
153 Operational Sustainability 28283
154 Operations Management 21095
155 Order Cancellation 10978
156 Order Cycle 18579
157 Order Cycle Time 23673
158 Order Fill Rate 34222
159 Order Fulfillment 6573
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10469
 
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