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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 43954
62 Date Code 18102
63 Days of Supply 19733
64 Dead on Arrival 9150
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7247
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8040
67 Detective Control 8850
68 Devanning 14154
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10795
70 Dispatching 24306
71 Distributed Inventory 8297
72 Distribution Channel Management 34536
73 Distribution Metrics 9013
74 Distribution Planning 24113
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15117
76 Double Marginalization 52523
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22209
78 Dual 5389
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20523
80 Echelon Inventory 26087
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38178
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49467
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7556
84 Efficient Frontier 25341
85 Engineer-to-Order 31614
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16298
87 Erlang B Formula 9281
88 ETD 8267
89 Ex Works 7786
90 Exception Rate 13393
91 Exponential smoothing 9770
92 External Growth 9998
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9363
94 Field Services 7699
95 Field Warehouse 10125
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8681
97 Fishbone Diagram 14529
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26882
99 Flow Through Distribution 12239
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8102
101 FOB Destination 12950
102 Forward buying 29972
103 Freight Charge 10261
104 Freight Consolidation 7474
105 Gantt Chart 8237
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11649
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29463
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12611
109 Hub 23315
110 Idle Time 8004
111 Import/Export License 8651
112 In Bond Shipment 13838
113 Inbound Logistics 13483
114 Interstate System 10936
115 Inventory Costs 53372
116 Inventory in Transit 16349
117 Inventory Management 54505
118 Inventory Planning System 9730
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22206
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42358
121 JIT 2 18375
122 Job Production 27364
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8981
124 Kanban Squares 6777
125 Laid-Down Cost 10084
126 Lean Office 5969
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10824
128 Lee's Notation 8513
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14117
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36998
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9177
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7391
133 Logistics Channel 22808
134 Logistics Costs 26552
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6640
136 Manifest 10466
137 Marks and Numbers 12528
138 Material Planning 34981
139 Materials Management 26281
140 Milk Run 42949
141 Mini Land Bridge 14345
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9458
143 Modal Split 15326
144 Movement of Goods 19367
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31444
146 North West Corner Method 16807
147 Numeric Distribution 14118
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28443
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48274
150 Operational Efficiency 9879
151 Operational Objectives 13281
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18079
153 Operational Sustainability 27805
154 Operations Management 20514
155 Order Cancellation 10735
156 Order Cycle 18372
157 Order Cycle Time 23429
158 Order Fill Rate 33921
159 Order Fulfillment 6423
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10229
 
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