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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 44287
62 Date Code 18329
63 Days of Supply 19913
64 Dead on Arrival 9396
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7352
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8168
67 Detective Control 8958
68 Devanning 14268
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11019
70 Dispatching 24626
71 Distributed Inventory 8405
72 Distribution Channel Management 34911
73 Distribution Metrics 9200
74 Distribution Planning 24268
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15298
76 Double Marginalization 52853
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22457
78 Dual 5473
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20675
80 Echelon Inventory 26271
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38329
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49904
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7665
84 Efficient Frontier 25581
85 Engineer-to-Order 31843
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16624
87 Erlang B Formula 9397
88 ETD 8373
89 Ex Works 7874
90 Exception Rate 13558
91 Exponential smoothing 9867
92 External Growth 10139
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9569
94 Field Services 7777
95 Field Warehouse 10660
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8851
97 Fishbone Diagram 14669
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27159
99 Flow Through Distribution 12371
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8231
101 FOB Destination 13114
102 Forward buying 30282
103 Freight Charge 10455
104 Freight Consolidation 7578
105 Gantt Chart 8329
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11797
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29661
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12746
109 Hub 23519
110 Idle Time 8114
111 Import/Export License 8779
112 In Bond Shipment 14027
113 Inbound Logistics 13652
114 Interstate System 11061
115 Inventory Costs 53839
116 Inventory in Transit 16597
117 Inventory Management 54987
118 Inventory Planning System 9915
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22373
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43072
121 JIT 2 18496
122 Job Production 27903
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9191
124 Kanban Squares 6885
125 Laid-Down Cost 10267
126 Lean Office 6169
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10888
128 Lee's Notation 8609
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14330
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37427
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9344
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7564
133 Logistics Channel 22978
134 Logistics Costs 26754
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6720
136 Manifest 10599
137 Marks and Numbers 12689
138 Material Planning 35221
139 Materials Management 26447
140 Milk Run 43220
141 Mini Land Bridge 14474
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9632
143 Modal Split 15500
144 Movement of Goods 19554
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31785
146 North West Corner Method 16910
147 Numeric Distribution 14297
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28636
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48596
150 Operational Efficiency 9993
151 Operational Objectives 13414
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18166
153 Operational Sustainability 28153
154 Operations Management 20944
155 Order Cancellation 10894
156 Order Cycle 18506
157 Order Cycle Time 23584
158 Order Fill Rate 34118
159 Order Fulfillment 6513
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10381
 
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