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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 43325
62 Date Code 17738
63 Days of Supply 19469
64 Dead on Arrival 8932
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7079
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7858
67 Detective Control 8692
68 Devanning 13989
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10595
70 Dispatching 23643
71 Distributed Inventory 8168
72 Distribution Channel Management 34055
73 Distribution Metrics 8719
74 Distribution Planning 23901
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14857
76 Double Marginalization 52200
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21993
78 Dual 5267
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20301
80 Echelon Inventory 25863
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37957
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48867
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7408
84 Efficient Frontier 24977
85 Engineer-to-Order 31259
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15958
87 Erlang B Formula 9100
88 ETD 8090
89 Ex Works 7674
90 Exception Rate 13151
91 Exponential smoothing 9614
92 External Growth 9828
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9212
94 Field Services 7584
95 Field Warehouse 9690
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8435
97 Fishbone Diagram 14307
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26527
99 Flow Through Distribution 12051
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7927
101 FOB Destination 12683
102 Forward buying 29721
103 Freight Charge 10101
104 Freight Consolidation 7324
105 Gantt Chart 8115
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11421
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29182
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12427
109 Hub 23054
110 Idle Time 7867
111 Import/Export License 8481
112 In Bond Shipment 13614
113 Inbound Logistics 13220
114 Interstate System 10778
115 Inventory Costs 52769
116 Inventory in Transit 16104
117 Inventory Management 53852
118 Inventory Planning System 9585
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21928
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41401
121 JIT 2 18213
122 Job Production 26648
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8766
124 Kanban Squares 6622
125 Laid-Down Cost 9892
126 Lean Office 5807
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10737
128 Lee's Notation 8359
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13828
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36299
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8958
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7273
133 Logistics Channel 22569
134 Logistics Costs 26287
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6541
136 Manifest 10240
137 Marks and Numbers 12261
138 Material Planning 34583
139 Materials Management 26031
140 Milk Run 42453
141 Mini Land Bridge 14134
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9194
143 Modal Split 14986
144 Movement of Goods 19130
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31073
146 North West Corner Method 16649
147 Numeric Distribution 13854
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28149
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47861
150 Operational Efficiency 9684
151 Operational Objectives 13113
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17934
153 Operational Sustainability 27498
154 Operations Management 19891
155 Order Cancellation 10421
156 Order Cycle 18171
157 Order Cycle Time 23195
158 Order Fill Rate 33640
159 Order Fulfillment 6289
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10044
 
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