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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 44542
62 Date Code 18530
63 Days of Supply 20016
64 Dead on Arrival 9500
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7427
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8255
67 Detective Control 9052
68 Devanning 14349
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11118
70 Dispatching 24812
71 Distributed Inventory 8470
72 Distribution Channel Management 35142
73 Distribution Metrics 9328
74 Distribution Planning 24382
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15417
76 Double Marginalization 53022
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22568
78 Dual 5532
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20764
80 Echelon Inventory 26439
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38449
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50177
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7736
84 Efficient Frontier 25732
85 Engineer-to-Order 31978
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16804
87 Erlang B Formula 9472
88 ETD 8448
89 Ex Works 7933
90 Exception Rate 13673
91 Exponential smoothing 9939
92 External Growth 10234
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9661
94 Field Services 7830
95 Field Warehouse 10996
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8979
97 Fishbone Diagram 14764
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27337
99 Flow Through Distribution 12477
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8329
101 FOB Destination 13220
102 Forward buying 30415
103 Freight Charge 10525
104 Freight Consolidation 7631
105 Gantt Chart 8381
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11913
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29768
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12837
109 Hub 23636
110 Idle Time 8184
111 Import/Export License 8851
112 In Bond Shipment 14129
113 Inbound Logistics 13754
114 Interstate System 11135
115 Inventory Costs 54093
116 Inventory in Transit 16737
117 Inventory Management 55270
118 Inventory Planning System 9995
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22512
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43425
121 JIT 2 18572
122 Job Production 28256
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9274
124 Kanban Squares 6973
125 Laid-Down Cost 10379
126 Lean Office 6252
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10922
128 Lee's Notation 8661
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14465
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37665
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9441
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7620
133 Logistics Channel 23074
134 Logistics Costs 26881
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6765
136 Manifest 10700
137 Marks and Numbers 12810
138 Material Planning 35377
139 Materials Management 26562
140 Milk Run 43385
141 Mini Land Bridge 14562
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9738
143 Modal Split 15610
144 Movement of Goods 19709
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31942
146 North West Corner Method 16982
147 Numeric Distribution 14399
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28766
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48820
150 Operational Efficiency 10062
151 Operational Objectives 13493
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18220
153 Operational Sustainability 28296
154 Operations Management 21109
155 Order Cancellation 10988
156 Order Cycle 18588
157 Order Cycle Time 23687
158 Order Fill Rate 34236
159 Order Fulfillment 6579
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10481
 
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