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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 44341
62 Date Code 18361
63 Days of Supply 19935
64 Dead on Arrival 9419
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7373
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8188
67 Detective Control 8979
68 Devanning 14287
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11043
70 Dispatching 24672
71 Distributed Inventory 8421
72 Distribution Channel Management 34966
73 Distribution Metrics 9227
74 Distribution Planning 24294
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15323
76 Double Marginalization 52888
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22479
78 Dual 5486
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20698
80 Echelon Inventory 26297
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38354
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49963
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7679
84 Efficient Frontier 25607
85 Engineer-to-Order 31871
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16662
87 Erlang B Formula 9413
88 ETD 8390
89 Ex Works 7883
90 Exception Rate 13585
91 Exponential smoothing 9884
92 External Growth 10160
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9584
94 Field Services 7790
95 Field Warehouse 10727
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8875
97 Fishbone Diagram 14687
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27197
99 Flow Through Distribution 12396
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8251
101 FOB Destination 13133
102 Forward buying 30319
103 Freight Charge 10476
104 Freight Consolidation 7590
105 Gantt Chart 8341
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11817
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29686
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12764
109 Hub 23544
110 Idle Time 8130
111 Import/Export License 8796
112 In Bond Shipment 14057
113 Inbound Logistics 13674
114 Interstate System 11079
115 Inventory Costs 53902
116 Inventory in Transit 16625
117 Inventory Management 55046
118 Inventory Planning System 9933
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22403
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43143
121 JIT 2 18512
122 Job Production 27982
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9210
124 Kanban Squares 6908
125 Laid-Down Cost 10291
126 Lean Office 6191
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10896
128 Lee's Notation 8627
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14358
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37467
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9362
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7578
133 Logistics Channel 23003
134 Logistics Costs 26790
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6731
136 Manifest 10623
137 Marks and Numbers 12713
138 Material Planning 35258
139 Materials Management 26474
140 Milk Run 43258
141 Mini Land Bridge 14495
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9655
143 Modal Split 15527
144 Movement of Goods 19585
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31825
146 North West Corner Method 16926
147 Numeric Distribution 14321
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28664
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48649
150 Operational Efficiency 10008
151 Operational Objectives 13435
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18181
153 Operational Sustainability 28182
154 Operations Management 20976
155 Order Cancellation 10916
156 Order Cycle 18526
157 Order Cycle Time 23606
158 Order Fill Rate 34141
159 Order Fulfillment 6531
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10406
 
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