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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 43303
62 Date Code 17724
63 Days of Supply 19457
64 Dead on Arrival 8921
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7074
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7849
67 Detective Control 8685
68 Devanning 13982
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10588
70 Dispatching 23623
71 Distributed Inventory 8163
72 Distribution Channel Management 34037
73 Distribution Metrics 8706
74 Distribution Planning 23894
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14845
76 Double Marginalization 52177
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21985
78 Dual 5259
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20296
80 Echelon Inventory 25856
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37946
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48842
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7401
84 Efficient Frontier 24960
85 Engineer-to-Order 31251
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15940
87 Erlang B Formula 9088
88 ETD 8078
89 Ex Works 7668
90 Exception Rate 13139
91 Exponential smoothing 9606
92 External Growth 9818
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9204
94 Field Services 7580
95 Field Warehouse 9681
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8422
97 Fishbone Diagram 14298
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26513
99 Flow Through Distribution 12039
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7920
101 FOB Destination 12676
102 Forward buying 29709
103 Freight Charge 10092
104 Freight Consolidation 7317
105 Gantt Chart 8109
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11412
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29172
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12423
109 Hub 23046
110 Idle Time 7862
111 Import/Export License 8476
112 In Bond Shipment 13609
113 Inbound Logistics 13207
114 Interstate System 10772
115 Inventory Costs 52739
116 Inventory in Transit 16092
117 Inventory Management 53832
118 Inventory Planning System 9578
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21913
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41361
121 JIT 2 18204
122 Job Production 26616
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8759
124 Kanban Squares 6614
125 Laid-Down Cost 9884
126 Lean Office 5799
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10733
128 Lee's Notation 8350
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13816
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36276
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8950
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7258
133 Logistics Channel 22559
134 Logistics Costs 26277
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6533
136 Manifest 10232
137 Marks and Numbers 12257
138 Material Planning 34565
139 Materials Management 26020
140 Milk Run 42426
141 Mini Land Bridge 14126
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9181
143 Modal Split 14975
144 Movement of Goods 19121
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31062
146 North West Corner Method 16642
147 Numeric Distribution 13843
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28137
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47846
150 Operational Efficiency 9674
151 Operational Objectives 13105
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17928
153 Operational Sustainability 27481
154 Operations Management 19866
155 Order Cancellation 10411
156 Order Cycle 18163
157 Order Cycle Time 23186
158 Order Fill Rate 33625
159 Order Fulfillment 6282
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10040
 
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