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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 44432
62 Date Code 18465
63 Days of Supply 19977
64 Dead on Arrival 9461
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7398
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8221
67 Detective Control 9013
68 Devanning 14322
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11078
70 Dispatching 24738
71 Distributed Inventory 8451
72 Distribution Channel Management 35066
73 Distribution Metrics 9277
74 Distribution Planning 24342
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15377
76 Double Marginalization 52962
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22525
78 Dual 5505
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20734
80 Echelon Inventory 26364
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38401
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50070
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7712
84 Efficient Frontier 25672
85 Engineer-to-Order 31924
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16726
87 Erlang B Formula 9445
88 ETD 8420
89 Ex Works 7912
90 Exception Rate 13638
91 Exponential smoothing 9917
92 External Growth 10196
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9621
94 Field Services 7807
95 Field Warehouse 10873
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8925
97 Fishbone Diagram 14727
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27269
99 Flow Through Distribution 12435
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8293
101 FOB Destination 13170
102 Forward buying 30367
103 Freight Charge 10499
104 Freight Consolidation 7607
105 Gantt Chart 8358
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11867
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29723
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12802
109 Hub 23585
110 Idle Time 8157
111 Import/Export License 8821
112 In Bond Shipment 14091
113 Inbound Logistics 13711
114 Interstate System 11107
115 Inventory Costs 54004
116 Inventory in Transit 16682
117 Inventory Management 55153
118 Inventory Planning System 9962
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22459
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43260
121 JIT 2 18545
122 Job Production 28114
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9245
124 Kanban Squares 6946
125 Laid-Down Cost 10339
126 Lean Office 6221
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10909
128 Lee's Notation 8640
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14415
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37568
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9404
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7600
133 Logistics Channel 23042
134 Logistics Costs 26843
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6751
136 Manifest 10666
137 Marks and Numbers 12769
138 Material Planning 35318
139 Materials Management 26519
140 Milk Run 43325
141 Mini Land Bridge 14536
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9702
143 Modal Split 15569
144 Movement of Goods 19630
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31885
146 North West Corner Method 16952
147 Numeric Distribution 14362
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28716
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48748
150 Operational Efficiency 10039
151 Operational Objectives 13468
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18198
153 Operational Sustainability 28242
154 Operations Management 21045
155 Order Cancellation 10951
156 Order Cycle 18556
157 Order Cycle Time 23646
158 Order Fill Rate 34190
159 Order Fulfillment 6560
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10446
 
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