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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 44004
62 Date Code 18134
63 Days of Supply 19758
64 Dead on Arrival 9178
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7262
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8055
67 Detective Control 8865
68 Devanning 14168
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10815
70 Dispatching 24357
71 Distributed Inventory 8306
72 Distribution Channel Management 34588
73 Distribution Metrics 9034
74 Distribution Planning 24135
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15146
76 Double Marginalization 52558
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22226
78 Dual 5404
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20540
80 Echelon Inventory 26115
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38197
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49522
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7568
84 Efficient Frontier 25373
85 Engineer-to-Order 31645
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16330
87 Erlang B Formula 9304
88 ETD 8281
89 Ex Works 7799
90 Exception Rate 13417
91 Exponential smoothing 9781
92 External Growth 10015
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9377
94 Field Services 7709
95 Field Warehouse 10228
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8703
97 Fishbone Diagram 14552
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26921
99 Flow Through Distribution 12256
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8120
101 FOB Destination 12967
102 Forward buying 30002
103 Freight Charge 10273
104 Freight Consolidation 7487
105 Gantt Chart 8252
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11668
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29497
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12627
109 Hub 23342
110 Idle Time 8018
111 Import/Export License 8662
112 In Bond Shipment 13870
113 Inbound Logistics 13512
114 Interstate System 10954
115 Inventory Costs 53423
116 Inventory in Transit 16370
117 Inventory Management 54559
118 Inventory Planning System 9740
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22228
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42451
121 JIT 2 18388
122 Job Production 27430
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9001
124 Kanban Squares 6793
125 Laid-Down Cost 10105
126 Lean Office 5983
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10830
128 Lee's Notation 8525
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14147
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37061
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9201
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7401
133 Logistics Channel 22828
134 Logistics Costs 26577
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6648
136 Manifest 10484
137 Marks and Numbers 12550
138 Material Planning 35004
139 Materials Management 26298
140 Milk Run 43001
141 Mini Land Bridge 14365
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9483
143 Modal Split 15348
144 Movement of Goods 19392
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31495
146 North West Corner Method 16821
147 Numeric Distribution 14148
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28465
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48316
150 Operational Efficiency 9896
151 Operational Objectives 13295
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18088
153 Operational Sustainability 27844
154 Operations Management 20564
155 Order Cancellation 10759
156 Order Cycle 18386
157 Order Cycle Time 23449
158 Order Fill Rate 33942
159 Order Fulfillment 6435
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10255
 
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