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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 44091
62 Date Code 18189
63 Days of Supply 19805
64 Dead on Arrival 9225
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7291
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8083
67 Detective Control 8888
68 Devanning 14194
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10855
70 Dispatching 24455
71 Distributed Inventory 8340
72 Distribution Channel Management 34674
73 Distribution Metrics 9087
74 Distribution Planning 24172
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15189
76 Double Marginalization 52621
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22278
78 Dual 5430
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20580
80 Echelon Inventory 26172
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38237
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49651
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7598
84 Efficient Frontier 25435
85 Engineer-to-Order 31704
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16403
87 Erlang B Formula 9329
88 ETD 8314
89 Ex Works 7822
90 Exception Rate 13462
91 Exponential smoothing 9812
92 External Growth 10053
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9418
94 Field Services 7730
95 Field Warehouse 10387
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8739
97 Fishbone Diagram 14583
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26986
99 Flow Through Distribution 12288
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8157
101 FOB Destination 13003
102 Forward buying 30056
103 Freight Charge 10317
104 Freight Consolidation 7511
105 Gantt Chart 8275
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11711
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29552
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12660
109 Hub 23392
110 Idle Time 8054
111 Import/Export License 8697
112 In Bond Shipment 13926
113 Inbound Logistics 13556
114 Interstate System 10984
115 Inventory Costs 53555
116 Inventory in Transit 16431
117 Inventory Management 54667
118 Inventory Planning System 9776
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22263
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42598
121 JIT 2 18418
122 Job Production 27578
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9047
124 Kanban Squares 6814
125 Laid-Down Cost 10149
126 Lean Office 6032
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10845
128 Lee's Notation 8550
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14196
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37160
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9241
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7431
133 Logistics Channel 22876
134 Logistics Costs 26637
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6677
136 Manifest 10512
137 Marks and Numbers 12583
138 Material Planning 35061
139 Materials Management 26341
140 Milk Run 43069
141 Mini Land Bridge 14401
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9529
143 Modal Split 15393
144 Movement of Goods 19449
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31582
146 North West Corner Method 16848
147 Numeric Distribution 14200
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28519
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48381
150 Operational Efficiency 9926
151 Operational Objectives 13332
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18111
153 Operational Sustainability 27913
154 Operations Management 20638
155 Order Cancellation 10800
156 Order Cycle 18427
157 Order Cycle Time 23490
158 Order Fill Rate 33994
159 Order Fulfillment 6461
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10292
 
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