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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 43143
62 Date Code 17651
63 Days of Supply 19387
64 Dead on Arrival 8862
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7046
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7808
67 Detective Control 8664
68 Devanning 13944
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10545
70 Dispatching 23508
71 Distributed Inventory 8137
72 Distribution Channel Management 33915
73 Distribution Metrics 8644
74 Distribution Planning 23837
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14785
76 Double Marginalization 52089
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21941
78 Dual 5221
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20265
80 Echelon Inventory 25807
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37894
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48683
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7369
84 Efficient Frontier 24871
85 Engineer-to-Order 31180
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15840
87 Erlang B Formula 9043
88 ETD 8050
89 Ex Works 7648
90 Exception Rate 13081
91 Exponential smoothing 9573
92 External Growth 9780
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9168
94 Field Services 7563
95 Field Warehouse 9638
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8362
97 Fishbone Diagram 14253
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26443
99 Flow Through Distribution 11991
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7879
101 FOB Destination 12624
102 Forward buying 29650
103 Freight Charge 10059
104 Freight Consolidation 7276
105 Gantt Chart 8082
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11353
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29069
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12389
109 Hub 22978
110 Idle Time 7826
111 Import/Export License 8434
112 In Bond Shipment 13550
113 Inbound Logistics 13160
114 Interstate System 10751
115 Inventory Costs 52565
116 Inventory in Transit 16031
117 Inventory Management 53692
118 Inventory Planning System 9539
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21828
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41108
121 JIT 2 18176
122 Job Production 26441
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8712
124 Kanban Squares 6578
125 Laid-Down Cost 9855
126 Lean Office 5768
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10713
128 Lee's Notation 8316
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13748
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36131
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8920
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7215
133 Logistics Channel 22505
134 Logistics Costs 26216
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6512
136 Manifest 10185
137 Marks and Numbers 12215
138 Material Planning 34475
139 Materials Management 25972
140 Milk Run 42303
141 Mini Land Bridge 14079
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9130
143 Modal Split 14900
144 Movement of Goods 19061
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30987
146 North West Corner Method 16610
147 Numeric Distribution 13779
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28073
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47758
150 Operational Efficiency 9632
151 Operational Objectives 13066
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17903
153 Operational Sustainability 27402
154 Operations Management 19730
155 Order Cancellation 10353
156 Order Cycle 18120
157 Order Cycle Time 23117
158 Order Fill Rate 33553
159 Order Fulfillment 6251
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10004
 
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