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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 42286
62 Date Code 17302
63 Days of Supply 19112
64 Dead on Arrival 8596
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 6914
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7583
67 Detective Control 8498
68 Devanning 13731
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10274
70 Dispatching 22694
71 Distributed Inventory 7976
72 Distribution Channel Management 33300
73 Distribution Metrics 8274
74 Distribution Planning 23593
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14480
76 Double Marginalization 51565
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21678
78 Dual 5028
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20081
80 Echelon Inventory 25591
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37563
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 47792
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7196
84 Efficient Frontier 24443
85 Engineer-to-Order 30771
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15382
87 Erlang B Formula 8813
88 ETD 7861
89 Ex Works 7489
90 Exception Rate 12749
91 Exponential smoothing 9381
92 External Growth 9602
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9009
94 Field Services 7416
95 Field Warehouse 9449
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8059
97 Fishbone Diagram 13986
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26019
99 Flow Through Distribution 11751
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7678
101 FOB Destination 12335
102 Forward buying 29282
103 Freight Charge 9860
104 Freight Consolidation 7091
105 Gantt Chart 7914
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11085
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 28537
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12207
109 Hub 22636
110 Idle Time 7639
111 Import/Export License 8212
112 In Bond Shipment 13252
113 Inbound Logistics 12849
114 Interstate System 10598
115 Inventory Costs 51711
116 Inventory in Transit 15754
117 Inventory Management 53011
118 Inventory Planning System 9349
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21495
120 JIT (Just In Time) 39834
121 JIT 2 17969
122 Job Production 25739
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8468
124 Kanban Squares 6393
125 Laid-Down Cost 9615
126 Lean Office 5598
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10599
128 Lee's Notation 8104
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13410
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 35388
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8708
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7024
133 Logistics Channel 22230
134 Logistics Costs 25846
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6369
136 Manifest 9888
137 Marks and Numbers 11961
138 Material Planning 33918
139 Materials Management 25669
140 Milk Run 41543
141 Mini Land Bridge 13848
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 8839
143 Modal Split 14571
144 Movement of Goods 18713
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30604
146 North West Corner Method 16413
147 Numeric Distribution 13430
148 One Level Distribution Channel 27785
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47295
150 Operational Efficiency 9395
151 Operational Objectives 12791
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17740
153 Operational Sustainability 26967
154 Operations Management 18980
155 Order Cancellation 10046
156 Order Cycle 17890
157 Order Cycle Time 22777
158 Order Fill Rate 33202
159 Order Fulfillment 6081
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9810
 
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