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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 36055
62 Date Code 14622
63 Days of Supply 17294
64 Dead on Arrival 6967
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 5778
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 6170
67 Detective Control 6998
68 Devanning 12274
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 8429
70 Dispatching 19273
71 Distributed Inventory 6848
72 Distribution Channel Management 28521
73 Distribution Metrics 6394
74 Distribution Planning 21565
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 12509
76 Double Marginalization 48119
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 19899
78 Dual 3907
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 18441
80 Echelon Inventory 23947
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 34863
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 42518
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 5929
84 Efficient Frontier 21568
85 Engineer-to-Order 27643
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 13431
87 Erlang B Formula 7251
88 ETD 6494
89 Ex Works 6241
90 Exception Rate 10434
91 Exponential smoothing 8090
92 External Growth 8194
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 7615
94 Field Services 6234
95 Field Warehouse 7908
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 5582
97 Fishbone Diagram 12467
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 22363
99 Flow Through Distribution 10191
100 FOB (Free On Board) 6218
101 FOB Destination 10157
102 Forward buying 27147
103 Freight Charge 8807
104 Freight Consolidation 5917
105 Gantt Chart 6969
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 9153
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 26169
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 10841
109 Hub 20532
110 Idle Time 6549
111 Import/Export License 6778
112 In Bond Shipment 11632
113 Inbound Logistics 11423
114 Interstate System 9466
115 Inventory Costs 45618
116 Inventory in Transit 13410
117 Inventory Management 45902
118 Inventory Planning System 7638
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 19282
120 JIT (Just In Time) 32406
121 JIT 2 16801
122 Job Production 19679
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 7219
124 Kanban Squares 5372
125 Laid-Down Cost 8204
126 Lean Office 4781
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 9773
128 Lee's Notation 6639
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 11055
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 32218
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 7114
132 Linear and Logistics Model 5961
133 Logistics Channel 20181
134 Logistics Costs 23714
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 5377
136 Manifest 8148
137 Marks and Numbers 9998
138 Material Planning 29230
139 Materials Management 23112
140 Milk Run 37196
141 Mini Land Bridge 12490
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 7811
143 Modal Split 12638
144 Movement of Goods 16127
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 27622
146 North West Corner Method 15190
147 Numeric Distribution 11173
148 One Level Distribution Channel 25353
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 44089
150 Operational Efficiency 8305
151 Operational Objectives 11571
152 Operational Performance Measurements 16428
153 Operational Sustainability 24505
154 Operations Management 14256
155 Order Cancellation 8362
156 Order Cycle 16651
157 Order Cycle Time 21130
158 Order Fill Rate 31383
159 Order Fulfillment 5082
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 8703
 
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