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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 44024
62 Date Code 18146
63 Days of Supply 19767
64 Dead on Arrival 9187
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7271
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8064
67 Detective Control 8871
68 Devanning 14174
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10821
70 Dispatching 24386
71 Distributed Inventory 8311
72 Distribution Channel Management 34616
73 Distribution Metrics 9048
74 Distribution Planning 24144
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15157
76 Double Marginalization 52572
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22237
78 Dual 5411
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20553
80 Echelon Inventory 26131
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38205
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49552
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7573
84 Efficient Frontier 25389
85 Engineer-to-Order 31657
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16347
87 Erlang B Formula 9308
88 ETD 8289
89 Ex Works 7803
90 Exception Rate 13428
91 Exponential smoothing 9788
92 External Growth 10023
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9384
94 Field Services 7713
95 Field Warehouse 10281
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8708
97 Fishbone Diagram 14558
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26936
99 Flow Through Distribution 12265
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8130
101 FOB Destination 12976
102 Forward buying 30015
103 Freight Charge 10280
104 Freight Consolidation 7491
105 Gantt Chart 8258
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11678
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29507
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12633
109 Hub 23352
110 Idle Time 8026
111 Import/Export License 8671
112 In Bond Shipment 13883
113 Inbound Logistics 13522
114 Interstate System 10961
115 Inventory Costs 53453
116 Inventory in Transit 16383
117 Inventory Management 54583
118 Inventory Planning System 9747
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22236
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42487
121 JIT 2 18394
122 Job Production 27473
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9009
124 Kanban Squares 6798
125 Laid-Down Cost 10114
126 Lean Office 5993
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10833
128 Lee's Notation 8530
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14158
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37091
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9210
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7406
133 Logistics Channel 22842
134 Logistics Costs 26591
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6653
136 Manifest 10489
137 Marks and Numbers 12559
138 Material Planning 35015
139 Materials Management 26309
140 Milk Run 43019
141 Mini Land Bridge 14374
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9496
143 Modal Split 15363
144 Movement of Goods 19404
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31520
146 North West Corner Method 16825
147 Numeric Distribution 14155
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28481
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48329
150 Operational Efficiency 9905
151 Operational Objectives 13305
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18095
153 Operational Sustainability 27858
154 Operations Management 20584
155 Order Cancellation 10764
156 Order Cycle 18397
157 Order Cycle Time 23456
158 Order Fill Rate 33957
159 Order Fulfillment 6443
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10271
 
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