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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 43189
62 Date Code 17674
63 Days of Supply 19413
64 Dead on Arrival 8879
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7052
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7817
67 Detective Control 8666
68 Devanning 13952
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10556
70 Dispatching 23534
71 Distributed Inventory 8141
72 Distribution Channel Management 33951
73 Distribution Metrics 8659
74 Distribution Planning 23845
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14799
76 Double Marginalization 52113
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21951
78 Dual 5227
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20273
80 Echelon Inventory 25824
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37911
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48728
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7375
84 Efficient Frontier 24896
85 Engineer-to-Order 31197
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15871
87 Erlang B Formula 9047
88 ETD 8055
89 Ex Works 7652
90 Exception Rate 13093
91 Exponential smoothing 9580
92 External Growth 9787
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9176
94 Field Services 7567
95 Field Warehouse 9649
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8378
97 Fishbone Diagram 14272
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26461
99 Flow Through Distribution 12001
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7889
101 FOB Destination 12637
102 Forward buying 29665
103 Freight Charge 10064
104 Freight Consolidation 7286
105 Gantt Chart 8088
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11362
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29120
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12397
109 Hub 22994
110 Idle Time 7834
111 Import/Export License 8446
112 In Bond Shipment 13566
113 Inbound Logistics 13169
114 Interstate System 10757
115 Inventory Costs 52619
116 Inventory in Transit 16047
117 Inventory Management 53732
118 Inventory Planning System 9548
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21852
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41177
121 JIT 2 18181
122 Job Production 26487
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8723
124 Kanban Squares 6585
125 Laid-Down Cost 9864
126 Lean Office 5774
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10717
128 Lee's Notation 8326
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13763
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36182
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8926
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7221
133 Logistics Channel 22518
134 Logistics Costs 26231
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6517
136 Manifest 10194
137 Marks and Numbers 12227
138 Material Planning 34502
139 Materials Management 25984
140 Milk Run 42334
141 Mini Land Bridge 14094
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9141
143 Modal Split 14914
144 Movement of Goods 19077
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31007
146 North West Corner Method 16619
147 Numeric Distribution 13801
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28091
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47781
150 Operational Efficiency 9641
151 Operational Objectives 13077
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17912
153 Operational Sustainability 27421
154 Operations Management 19766
155 Order Cancellation 10367
156 Order Cycle 18129
157 Order Cycle Time 23142
158 Order Fill Rate 33566
159 Order Fulfillment 6258
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10014
 
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