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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 43948
62 Date Code 18094
63 Days of Supply 19727
64 Dead on Arrival 9147
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7244
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8035
67 Detective Control 8847
68 Devanning 14153
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10793
70 Dispatching 24298
71 Distributed Inventory 8295
72 Distribution Channel Management 34532
73 Distribution Metrics 9009
74 Distribution Planning 24110
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15113
76 Double Marginalization 52520
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22205
78 Dual 5389
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20518
80 Echelon Inventory 26083
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38173
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49461
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7554
84 Efficient Frontier 25332
85 Engineer-to-Order 31609
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16290
87 Erlang B Formula 9279
88 ETD 8265
89 Ex Works 7785
90 Exception Rate 13389
91 Exponential smoothing 9767
92 External Growth 9994
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9361
94 Field Services 7697
95 Field Warehouse 10106
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8680
97 Fishbone Diagram 14527
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26880
99 Flow Through Distribution 12235
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8098
101 FOB Destination 12947
102 Forward buying 29970
103 Freight Charge 10259
104 Freight Consolidation 7473
105 Gantt Chart 8236
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11644
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29461
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12608
109 Hub 23308
110 Idle Time 8002
111 Import/Export License 8648
112 In Bond Shipment 13834
113 Inbound Logistics 13481
114 Interstate System 10935
115 Inventory Costs 53365
116 Inventory in Transit 16344
117 Inventory Management 54500
118 Inventory Planning System 9728
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22198
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42347
121 JIT 2 18371
122 Job Production 27354
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8979
124 Kanban Squares 6772
125 Laid-Down Cost 10080
126 Lean Office 5969
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10823
128 Lee's Notation 8512
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14114
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36980
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9175
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7390
133 Logistics Channel 22805
134 Logistics Costs 26549
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6638
136 Manifest 10464
137 Marks and Numbers 12521
138 Material Planning 34979
139 Materials Management 26279
140 Milk Run 42947
141 Mini Land Bridge 14341
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9452
143 Modal Split 15324
144 Movement of Goods 19365
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31439
146 North West Corner Method 16805
147 Numeric Distribution 14115
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28440
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48267
150 Operational Efficiency 9878
151 Operational Objectives 13279
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18077
153 Operational Sustainability 27800
154 Operations Management 20509
155 Order Cancellation 10732
156 Order Cycle 18370
157 Order Cycle Time 23427
158 Order Fill Rate 33918
159 Order Fulfillment 6422
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10226
 
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