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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 44275
62 Date Code 18316
63 Days of Supply 19902
64 Dead on Arrival 9385
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7347
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8157
67 Detective Control 8950
68 Devanning 14260
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11010
70 Dispatching 24611
71 Distributed Inventory 8399
72 Distribution Channel Management 34886
73 Distribution Metrics 9187
74 Distribution Planning 24253
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15284
76 Double Marginalization 52842
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22449
78 Dual 5471
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20665
80 Echelon Inventory 26261
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38318
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49877
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7657
84 Efficient Frontier 25574
85 Engineer-to-Order 31837
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16611
87 Erlang B Formula 9389
88 ETD 8367
89 Ex Works 7868
90 Exception Rate 13549
91 Exponential smoothing 9862
92 External Growth 10129
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9563
94 Field Services 7770
95 Field Warehouse 10631
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8840
97 Fishbone Diagram 14659
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27143
99 Flow Through Distribution 12362
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8222
101 FOB Destination 13105
102 Forward buying 30263
103 Freight Charge 10448
104 Freight Consolidation 7571
105 Gantt Chart 8327
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11784
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29652
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12739
109 Hub 23505
110 Idle Time 8107
111 Import/Export License 8769
112 In Bond Shipment 14022
113 Inbound Logistics 13640
114 Interstate System 11052
115 Inventory Costs 53814
116 Inventory in Transit 16589
117 Inventory Management 54963
118 Inventory Planning System 9909
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22361
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43026
121 JIT 2 18491
122 Job Production 27870
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9181
124 Kanban Squares 6877
125 Laid-Down Cost 10259
126 Lean Office 6161
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10885
128 Lee's Notation 8605
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14315
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37411
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9336
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7560
133 Logistics Channel 22970
134 Logistics Costs 26745
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6716
136 Manifest 10587
137 Marks and Numbers 12676
138 Material Planning 35212
139 Materials Management 26434
140 Milk Run 43200
141 Mini Land Bridge 14464
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9621
143 Modal Split 15492
144 Movement of Goods 19549
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31770
146 North West Corner Method 16904
147 Numeric Distribution 14287
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28621
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48572
150 Operational Efficiency 9985
151 Operational Objectives 13406
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18159
153 Operational Sustainability 28138
154 Operations Management 20926
155 Order Cancellation 10886
156 Order Cycle 18497
157 Order Cycle Time 23574
158 Order Fill Rate 34105
159 Order Fulfillment 6509
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10373
 
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