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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 44041
62 Date Code 18155
63 Days of Supply 19775
64 Dead on Arrival 9191
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7272
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8068
67 Detective Control 8875
68 Devanning 14175
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10826
70 Dispatching 24395
71 Distributed Inventory 8313
72 Distribution Channel Management 34630
73 Distribution Metrics 9057
74 Distribution Planning 24148
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15162
76 Double Marginalization 52584
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22241
78 Dual 5415
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20559
80 Echelon Inventory 26140
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38208
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49568
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7576
84 Efficient Frontier 25397
85 Engineer-to-Order 31667
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16356
87 Erlang B Formula 9310
88 ETD 8293
89 Ex Works 7804
90 Exception Rate 13433
91 Exponential smoothing 9793
92 External Growth 10028
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9390
94 Field Services 7715
95 Field Warehouse 10303
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8714
97 Fishbone Diagram 14563
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26944
99 Flow Through Distribution 12269
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8133
101 FOB Destination 12978
102 Forward buying 30021
103 Freight Charge 10282
104 Freight Consolidation 7491
105 Gantt Chart 8262
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11685
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29517
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12638
109 Hub 23358
110 Idle Time 8029
111 Import/Export License 8674
112 In Bond Shipment 13888
113 Inbound Logistics 13534
114 Interstate System 10963
115 Inventory Costs 53471
116 Inventory in Transit 16389
117 Inventory Management 54598
118 Inventory Planning System 9747
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22243
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42507
121 JIT 2 18398
122 Job Production 27496
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9014
124 Kanban Squares 6803
125 Laid-Down Cost 10120
126 Lean Office 5997
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10833
128 Lee's Notation 8537
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14166
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37104
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9213
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7406
133 Logistics Channel 22848
134 Logistics Costs 26602
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6656
136 Manifest 10492
137 Marks and Numbers 12563
138 Material Planning 35024
139 Materials Management 26313
140 Milk Run 43030
141 Mini Land Bridge 14379
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9500
143 Modal Split 15368
144 Movement of Goods 19413
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31529
146 North West Corner Method 16827
147 Numeric Distribution 14162
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28490
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48339
150 Operational Efficiency 9907
151 Operational Objectives 13309
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18096
153 Operational Sustainability 27868
154 Operations Management 20592
155 Order Cancellation 10770
156 Order Cycle 18403
157 Order Cycle Time 23462
158 Order Fill Rate 33962
159 Order Fulfillment 6445
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10273
 
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