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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 44395
62 Date Code 18420
63 Days of Supply 19961
64 Dead on Arrival 9442
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7384
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8206
67 Detective Control 8999
68 Devanning 14307
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11063
70 Dispatching 24714
71 Distributed Inventory 8436
72 Distribution Channel Management 35033
73 Distribution Metrics 9259
74 Distribution Planning 24322
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15357
76 Double Marginalization 52936
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22504
78 Dual 5495
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20721
80 Echelon Inventory 26339
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38382
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50034
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7694
84 Efficient Frontier 25645
85 Engineer-to-Order 31905
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16698
87 Erlang B Formula 9428
88 ETD 8407
89 Ex Works 7898
90 Exception Rate 13617
91 Exponential smoothing 9904
92 External Growth 10181
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9607
94 Field Services 7798
95 Field Warehouse 10818
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8905
97 Fishbone Diagram 14707
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27239
99 Flow Through Distribution 12421
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8277
101 FOB Destination 13159
102 Forward buying 30351
103 Freight Charge 10492
104 Freight Consolidation 7602
105 Gantt Chart 8354
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11844
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29713
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12788
109 Hub 23573
110 Idle Time 8148
111 Import/Export License 8814
112 In Bond Shipment 14084
113 Inbound Logistics 13698
114 Interstate System 11098
115 Inventory Costs 53976
116 Inventory in Transit 16663
117 Inventory Management 55115
118 Inventory Planning System 9950
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22435
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43211
121 JIT 2 18535
122 Job Production 28060
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9231
124 Kanban Squares 6932
125 Laid-Down Cost 10325
126 Lean Office 6212
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10904
128 Lee's Notation 8635
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14393
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37532
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9389
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7593
133 Logistics Channel 23028
134 Logistics Costs 26822
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6740
136 Manifest 10651
137 Marks and Numbers 12742
138 Material Planning 35298
139 Materials Management 26502
140 Milk Run 43302
141 Mini Land Bridge 14519
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9689
143 Modal Split 15555
144 Movement of Goods 19611
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31861
146 North West Corner Method 16945
147 Numeric Distribution 14351
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28694
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48705
150 Operational Efficiency 10027
151 Operational Objectives 13459
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18194
153 Operational Sustainability 28218
154 Operations Management 21019
155 Order Cancellation 10933
156 Order Cycle 18547
157 Order Cycle Time 23632
158 Order Fill Rate 34172
159 Order Fulfillment 6551
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10425
 
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