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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 44185
62 Date Code 18250
63 Days of Supply 19850
64 Dead on Arrival 9334
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7319
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8118
67 Detective Control 8922
68 Devanning 14221
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10971
70 Dispatching 24538
71 Distributed Inventory 8366
72 Distribution Channel Management 34774
73 Distribution Metrics 9129
74 Distribution Planning 24212
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15226
76 Double Marginalization 52764
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22394
78 Dual 5449
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20625
80 Echelon Inventory 26220
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38285
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49766
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7627
84 Efficient Frontier 25501
85 Engineer-to-Order 31764
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16538
87 Erlang B Formula 9356
88 ETD 8342
89 Ex Works 7843
90 Exception Rate 13505
91 Exponential smoothing 9837
92 External Growth 10087
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9529
94 Field Services 7748
95 Field Warehouse 10498
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8780
97 Fishbone Diagram 14619
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27052
99 Flow Through Distribution 12320
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8188
101 FOB Destination 13041
102 Forward buying 30179
103 Freight Charge 10419
104 Freight Consolidation 7538
105 Gantt Chart 8297
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11744
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29601
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12695
109 Hub 23446
110 Idle Time 8076
111 Import/Export License 8731
112 In Bond Shipment 13967
113 Inbound Logistics 13596
114 Interstate System 11017
115 Inventory Costs 53677
116 Inventory in Transit 16544
117 Inventory Management 54836
118 Inventory Planning System 9881
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22314
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42773
121 JIT 2 18451
122 Job Production 27719
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9156
124 Kanban Squares 6847
125 Laid-Down Cost 10204
126 Lean Office 6132
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10865
128 Lee's Notation 8577
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14253
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37308
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9284
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7538
133 Logistics Channel 22929
134 Logistics Costs 26700
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6699
136 Manifest 10549
137 Marks and Numbers 12620
138 Material Planning 35120
139 Materials Management 26387
140 Milk Run 43133
141 Mini Land Bridge 14430
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9576
143 Modal Split 15443
144 Movement of Goods 19500
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31672
146 North West Corner Method 16879
147 Numeric Distribution 14242
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28568
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48479
150 Operational Efficiency 9956
151 Operational Objectives 13362
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18132
153 Operational Sustainability 28045
154 Operations Management 20818
155 Order Cancellation 10843
156 Order Cycle 18458
157 Order Cycle Time 23530
158 Order Fill Rate 34052
159 Order Fulfillment 6483
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10332
 
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