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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 43964
62 Date Code 18108
63 Days of Supply 19741
64 Dead on Arrival 9155
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7252
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8045
67 Detective Control 8855
68 Devanning 14157
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10800
70 Dispatching 24321
71 Distributed Inventory 8298
72 Distribution Channel Management 34547
73 Distribution Metrics 9017
74 Distribution Planning 24120
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15123
76 Double Marginalization 52528
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22213
78 Dual 5398
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20526
80 Echelon Inventory 26091
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38183
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49479
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7560
84 Efficient Frontier 25347
85 Engineer-to-Order 31620
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16305
87 Erlang B Formula 9287
88 ETD 8270
89 Ex Works 7789
90 Exception Rate 13402
91 Exponential smoothing 9771
92 External Growth 10003
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9368
94 Field Services 7701
95 Field Warehouse 10151
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8687
97 Fishbone Diagram 14533
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26889
99 Flow Through Distribution 12243
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8106
101 FOB Destination 12953
102 Forward buying 29978
103 Freight Charge 10265
104 Freight Consolidation 7477
105 Gantt Chart 8240
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11652
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29469
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12614
109 Hub 23320
110 Idle Time 8007
111 Import/Export License 8655
112 In Bond Shipment 13846
113 Inbound Logistics 13491
114 Interstate System 10943
115 Inventory Costs 53381
116 Inventory in Transit 16353
117 Inventory Management 54514
118 Inventory Planning System 9732
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22210
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42372
121 JIT 2 18377
122 Job Production 27377
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8987
124 Kanban Squares 6782
125 Laid-Down Cost 10091
126 Lean Office 5970
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10824
128 Lee's Notation 8515
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14123
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37010
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9179
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7394
133 Logistics Channel 22813
134 Logistics Costs 26553
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6642
136 Manifest 10469
137 Marks and Numbers 12532
138 Material Planning 34987
139 Materials Management 26283
140 Milk Run 42958
141 Mini Land Bridge 14350
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9464
143 Modal Split 15333
144 Movement of Goods 19373
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31453
146 North West Corner Method 16808
147 Numeric Distribution 14125
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28447
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48283
150 Operational Efficiency 9885
151 Operational Objectives 13285
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18080
153 Operational Sustainability 27814
154 Operations Management 20521
155 Order Cancellation 10738
156 Order Cycle 18374
157 Order Cycle Time 23432
158 Order Fill Rate 33925
159 Order Fulfillment 6429
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10235
 
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