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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 43875
62 Date Code 18064
63 Days of Supply 19695
64 Dead on Arrival 9118
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7221
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8009
67 Detective Control 8826
68 Devanning 14130
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10767
70 Dispatching 24225
71 Distributed Inventory 8278
72 Distribution Channel Management 34489
73 Distribution Metrics 8970
74 Distribution Planning 24080
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15083
76 Double Marginalization 52481
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22175
78 Dual 5377
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20487
80 Echelon Inventory 26044
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38149
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49395
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7535
84 Efficient Frontier 25291
85 Engineer-to-Order 31566
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16254
87 Erlang B Formula 9260
88 ETD 8245
89 Ex Works 7773
90 Exception Rate 13355
91 Exponential smoothing 9751
92 External Growth 9970
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9342
94 Field Services 7682
95 Field Warehouse 9978
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8647
97 Fishbone Diagram 14507
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26838
99 Flow Through Distribution 12210
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8079
101 FOB Destination 12923
102 Forward buying 29937
103 Freight Charge 10239
104 Freight Consolidation 7452
105 Gantt Chart 8222
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11619
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29423
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12581
109 Hub 23280
110 Idle Time 7984
111 Import/Export License 8628
112 In Bond Shipment 13803
113 Inbound Logistics 13451
114 Interstate System 10913
115 Inventory Costs 53299
116 Inventory in Transit 16313
117 Inventory Management 54433
118 Inventory Planning System 9712
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22163
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42225
121 JIT 2 18351
122 Job Production 27280
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8958
124 Kanban Squares 6760
125 Laid-Down Cost 10056
126 Lean Office 5950
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10807
128 Lee's Notation 8493
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14078
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36903
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9145
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7376
133 Logistics Channel 22772
134 Logistics Costs 26510
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6626
136 Manifest 10438
137 Marks and Numbers 12485
138 Material Planning 34936
139 Materials Management 26241
140 Milk Run 42889
141 Mini Land Bridge 14320
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9417
143 Modal Split 15283
144 Movement of Goods 19336
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31398
146 North West Corner Method 16784
147 Numeric Distribution 14074
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28405
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48213
150 Operational Efficiency 9855
151 Operational Objectives 13259
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18060
153 Operational Sustainability 27759
154 Operations Management 20449
155 Order Cancellation 10702
156 Order Cycle 18349
157 Order Cycle Time 23406
158 Order Fill Rate 33883
159 Order Fulfillment 6402
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10200
 
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