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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 43735
62 Date Code 17973
63 Days of Supply 19643
64 Dead on Arrival 9067
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7179
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7974
67 Detective Control 8779
68 Devanning 14094
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10718
70 Dispatching 24044
71 Distributed Inventory 8243
72 Distribution Channel Management 34376
73 Distribution Metrics 8902
74 Distribution Planning 24034
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15011
76 Double Marginalization 52398
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22126
78 Dual 5350
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20432
80 Echelon Inventory 25976
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38089
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49240
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7499
84 Efficient Frontier 25208
85 Engineer-to-Order 31484
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16164
87 Erlang B Formula 9212
88 ETD 8195
89 Ex Works 7741
90 Exception Rate 13296
91 Exponential smoothing 9716
92 External Growth 9925
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9304
94 Field Services 7651
95 Field Warehouse 9800
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8589
97 Fishbone Diagram 14454
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26755
99 Flow Through Distribution 12161
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8037
101 FOB Destination 12854
102 Forward buying 29872
103 Freight Charge 10204
104 Freight Consolidation 7418
105 Gantt Chart 8194
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11564
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29354
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12538
109 Hub 23214
110 Idle Time 7953
111 Import/Export License 8587
112 In Bond Shipment 13748
113 Inbound Logistics 13382
114 Interstate System 10868
115 Inventory Costs 53151
116 Inventory in Transit 16261
117 Inventory Management 54257
118 Inventory Planning System 9674
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22101
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41985
121 JIT 2 18314
122 Job Production 27092
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8908
124 Kanban Squares 6728
125 Laid-Down Cost 10005
126 Lean Office 5912
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10788
128 Lee's Notation 8454
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14008
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36716
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9086
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7346
133 Logistics Channel 22719
134 Logistics Costs 26441
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6601
136 Manifest 10387
137 Marks and Numbers 12416
138 Material Planning 34849
139 Materials Management 26186
140 Milk Run 42783
141 Mini Land Bridge 14267
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9355
143 Modal Split 15197
144 Movement of Goods 19270
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31309
146 North West Corner Method 16743
147 Numeric Distribution 13997
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28325
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48110
150 Operational Efficiency 9815
151 Operational Objectives 13217
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18019
153 Operational Sustainability 27672
154 Operations Management 20287
155 Order Cancellation 10623
156 Order Cycle 18293
157 Order Cycle Time 23354
158 Order Fill Rate 33809
159 Order Fulfillment 6371
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10147
 
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