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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 43729
62 Date Code 17967
63 Days of Supply 19637
64 Dead on Arrival 9063
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7175
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7970
67 Detective Control 8778
68 Devanning 14093
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10714
70 Dispatching 24031
71 Distributed Inventory 8241
72 Distribution Channel Management 34366
73 Distribution Metrics 8896
74 Distribution Planning 24029
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15010
76 Double Marginalization 52394
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22124
78 Dual 5349
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20430
80 Echelon Inventory 25973
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38088
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49232
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7497
84 Efficient Frontier 25201
85 Engineer-to-Order 31478
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16155
87 Erlang B Formula 9210
88 ETD 8191
89 Ex Works 7740
90 Exception Rate 13292
91 Exponential smoothing 9715
92 External Growth 9922
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9301
94 Field Services 7650
95 Field Warehouse 9794
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8585
97 Fishbone Diagram 14452
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26748
99 Flow Through Distribution 12156
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8034
101 FOB Destination 12851
102 Forward buying 29868
103 Freight Charge 10200
104 Freight Consolidation 7416
105 Gantt Chart 8191
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11562
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29351
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12537
109 Hub 23210
110 Idle Time 7949
111 Import/Export License 8585
112 In Bond Shipment 13747
113 Inbound Logistics 13380
114 Interstate System 10866
115 Inventory Costs 53147
116 Inventory in Transit 16256
117 Inventory Management 54246
118 Inventory Planning System 9673
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22097
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41965
121 JIT 2 18313
122 Job Production 27084
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8904
124 Kanban Squares 6724
125 Laid-Down Cost 10005
126 Lean Office 5907
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10785
128 Lee's Notation 8453
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14005
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36704
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9081
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7346
133 Logistics Channel 22717
134 Logistics Costs 26438
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6600
136 Manifest 10384
137 Marks and Numbers 12409
138 Material Planning 34840
139 Materials Management 26182
140 Milk Run 42775
141 Mini Land Bridge 14261
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9347
143 Modal Split 15195
144 Movement of Goods 19267
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31303
146 North West Corner Method 16740
147 Numeric Distribution 13996
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28319
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48103
150 Operational Efficiency 9810
151 Operational Objectives 13216
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18014
153 Operational Sustainability 27670
154 Operations Management 20273
155 Order Cancellation 10620
156 Order Cycle 18291
157 Order Cycle Time 23352
158 Order Fill Rate 33803
159 Order Fulfillment 6369
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10146
 
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