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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 43820
62 Date Code 18034
63 Days of Supply 19674
64 Dead on Arrival 9094
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7209
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7998
67 Detective Control 8807
68 Devanning 14117
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10745
70 Dispatching 24164
71 Distributed Inventory 8261
72 Distribution Channel Management 34445
73 Distribution Metrics 8941
74 Distribution Planning 24063
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15057
76 Double Marginalization 52449
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22156
78 Dual 5368
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20467
80 Echelon Inventory 26020
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38127
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49336
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7519
84 Efficient Frontier 25265
85 Engineer-to-Order 31537
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16221
87 Erlang B Formula 9241
88 ETD 8225
89 Ex Works 7759
90 Exception Rate 13333
91 Exponential smoothing 9737
92 External Growth 9952
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9331
94 Field Services 7670
95 Field Warehouse 9889
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8628
97 Fishbone Diagram 14489
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26810
99 Flow Through Distribution 12191
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8062
101 FOB Destination 12896
102 Forward buying 29907
103 Freight Charge 10227
104 Freight Consolidation 7437
105 Gantt Chart 8210
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11598
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29390
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12567
109 Hub 23257
110 Idle Time 7973
111 Import/Export License 8610
112 In Bond Shipment 13777
113 Inbound Logistics 13425
114 Interstate System 10895
115 Inventory Costs 53236
116 Inventory in Transit 16295
117 Inventory Management 54369
118 Inventory Planning System 9699
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22139
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42138
121 JIT 2 18332
122 Job Production 27215
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8935
124 Kanban Squares 6746
125 Laid-Down Cost 10036
126 Lean Office 5938
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10801
128 Lee's Notation 8473
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14053
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36841
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9117
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7365
133 Logistics Channel 22752
134 Logistics Costs 26489
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6617
136 Manifest 10416
137 Marks and Numbers 12454
138 Material Planning 34914
139 Materials Management 26223
140 Milk Run 42848
141 Mini Land Bridge 14297
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9392
143 Modal Split 15256
144 Movement of Goods 19311
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31362
146 North West Corner Method 16770
147 Numeric Distribution 14043
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28377
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48172
150 Operational Efficiency 9840
151 Operational Objectives 13242
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18045
153 Operational Sustainability 27727
154 Operations Management 20392
155 Order Cancellation 10672
156 Order Cycle 18330
157 Order Cycle Time 23390
158 Order Fill Rate 33861
159 Order Fulfillment 6390
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10182
 
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