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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 43872
62 Date Code 18064
63 Days of Supply 19694
64 Dead on Arrival 9117
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7221
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8009
67 Detective Control 8826
68 Devanning 14130
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10767
70 Dispatching 24222
71 Distributed Inventory 8278
72 Distribution Channel Management 34488
73 Distribution Metrics 8970
74 Distribution Planning 24080
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15083
76 Double Marginalization 52481
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22174
78 Dual 5377
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20486
80 Echelon Inventory 26042
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38148
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49391
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7535
84 Efficient Frontier 25291
85 Engineer-to-Order 31566
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16253
87 Erlang B Formula 9259
88 ETD 8245
89 Ex Works 7773
90 Exception Rate 13354
91 Exponential smoothing 9750
92 External Growth 9970
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9342
94 Field Services 7682
95 Field Warehouse 9973
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8646
97 Fishbone Diagram 14507
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26836
99 Flow Through Distribution 12209
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8079
101 FOB Destination 12921
102 Forward buying 29936
103 Freight Charge 10239
104 Freight Consolidation 7451
105 Gantt Chart 8222
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11618
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29421
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12581
109 Hub 23279
110 Idle Time 7984
111 Import/Export License 8625
112 In Bond Shipment 13801
113 Inbound Logistics 13451
114 Interstate System 10913
115 Inventory Costs 53296
116 Inventory in Transit 16313
117 Inventory Management 54432
118 Inventory Planning System 9711
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22162
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42219
121 JIT 2 18350
122 Job Production 27275
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8956
124 Kanban Squares 6759
125 Laid-Down Cost 10054
126 Lean Office 5949
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10807
128 Lee's Notation 8492
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14078
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36903
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9145
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7375
133 Logistics Channel 22771
134 Logistics Costs 26509
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6626
136 Manifest 10437
137 Marks and Numbers 12485
138 Material Planning 34934
139 Materials Management 26241
140 Milk Run 42887
141 Mini Land Bridge 14319
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9415
143 Modal Split 15282
144 Movement of Goods 19336
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31398
146 North West Corner Method 16783
147 Numeric Distribution 14073
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28403
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48212
150 Operational Efficiency 9855
151 Operational Objectives 13259
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18060
153 Operational Sustainability 27756
154 Operations Management 20447
155 Order Cancellation 10701
156 Order Cycle 18347
157 Order Cycle Time 23406
158 Order Fill Rate 33882
159 Order Fulfillment 6401
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10199
 
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