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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 43770
62 Date Code 18005
63 Days of Supply 19663
64 Dead on Arrival 9079
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7195
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7982
67 Detective Control 8792
68 Devanning 14106
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10733
70 Dispatching 24091
71 Distributed Inventory 8252
72 Distribution Channel Management 34400
73 Distribution Metrics 8920
74 Distribution Planning 24045
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15031
76 Double Marginalization 52419
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22143
78 Dual 5358
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20447
80 Echelon Inventory 25994
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38110
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49283
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7507
84 Efficient Frontier 25229
85 Engineer-to-Order 31508
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16190
87 Erlang B Formula 9222
88 ETD 8208
89 Ex Works 7748
90 Exception Rate 13312
91 Exponential smoothing 9727
92 External Growth 9940
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9315
94 Field Services 7658
95 Field Warehouse 9834
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8608
97 Fishbone Diagram 14469
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26783
99 Flow Through Distribution 12171
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8044
101 FOB Destination 12874
102 Forward buying 29889
103 Freight Charge 10212
104 Freight Consolidation 7425
105 Gantt Chart 8202
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11578
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29372
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12551
109 Hub 23230
110 Idle Time 7960
111 Import/Export License 8597
112 In Bond Shipment 13757
113 Inbound Logistics 13403
114 Interstate System 10881
115 Inventory Costs 53186
116 Inventory in Transit 16277
117 Inventory Management 54313
118 Inventory Planning System 9684
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22118
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42039
121 JIT 2 18320
122 Job Production 27153
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8920
124 Kanban Squares 6738
125 Laid-Down Cost 10018
126 Lean Office 5922
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10793
128 Lee's Notation 8463
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14030
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36772
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9097
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7354
133 Logistics Channel 22735
134 Logistics Costs 26463
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6610
136 Manifest 10399
137 Marks and Numbers 12433
138 Material Planning 34877
139 Materials Management 26206
140 Milk Run 42813
141 Mini Land Bridge 14277
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9373
143 Modal Split 15226
144 Movement of Goods 19294
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31329
146 North West Corner Method 16759
147 Numeric Distribution 14015
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28346
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48139
150 Operational Efficiency 9827
151 Operational Objectives 13231
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18028
153 Operational Sustainability 27700
154 Operations Management 20325
155 Order Cancellation 10649
156 Order Cycle 18309
157 Order Cycle Time 23372
158 Order Fill Rate 33828
159 Order Fulfillment 6381
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10167
 
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