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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 44176
62 Date Code 18245
63 Days of Supply 19846
64 Dead on Arrival 9334
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7317
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8116
67 Detective Control 8918
68 Devanning 14220
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10969
70 Dispatching 24534
71 Distributed Inventory 8362
72 Distribution Channel Management 34765
73 Distribution Metrics 9127
74 Distribution Planning 24207
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15222
76 Double Marginalization 52761
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22390
78 Dual 5447
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20622
80 Echelon Inventory 26218
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38283
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49754
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7622
84 Efficient Frontier 25496
85 Engineer-to-Order 31763
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16534
87 Erlang B Formula 9352
88 ETD 8340
89 Ex Works 7841
90 Exception Rate 13501
91 Exponential smoothing 9836
92 External Growth 10083
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9528
94 Field Services 7747
95 Field Warehouse 10487
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8774
97 Fishbone Diagram 14617
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27048
99 Flow Through Distribution 12318
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8186
101 FOB Destination 13039
102 Forward buying 30176
103 Freight Charge 10418
104 Freight Consolidation 7538
105 Gantt Chart 8293
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11740
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29597
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12693
109 Hub 23443
110 Idle Time 8075
111 Import/Export License 8730
112 In Bond Shipment 13966
113 Inbound Logistics 13593
114 Interstate System 11014
115 Inventory Costs 53660
116 Inventory in Transit 16541
117 Inventory Management 54829
118 Inventory Planning System 9879
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22313
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42759
121 JIT 2 18449
122 Job Production 27710
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9154
124 Kanban Squares 6844
125 Laid-Down Cost 10201
126 Lean Office 6131
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10863
128 Lee's Notation 8575
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14245
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37302
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9281
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7536
133 Logistics Channel 22924
134 Logistics Costs 26697
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6695
136 Manifest 10545
137 Marks and Numbers 12617
138 Material Planning 35116
139 Materials Management 26385
140 Milk Run 43128
141 Mini Land Bridge 14426
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9573
143 Modal Split 15437
144 Movement of Goods 19497
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31666
146 North West Corner Method 16877
147 Numeric Distribution 14240
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28566
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48470
150 Operational Efficiency 9953
151 Operational Objectives 13361
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18129
153 Operational Sustainability 28040
154 Operations Management 20809
155 Order Cancellation 10836
156 Order Cycle 18455
157 Order Cycle Time 23529
158 Order Fill Rate 34043
159 Order Fulfillment 6481
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10329
 
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