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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 44582
62 Date Code 18557
63 Days of Supply 20032
64 Dead on Arrival 9511
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7443
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8267
67 Detective Control 9069
68 Devanning 14361
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11131
70 Dispatching 24840
71 Distributed Inventory 8479
72 Distribution Channel Management 35171
73 Distribution Metrics 9350
74 Distribution Planning 24401
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15442
76 Double Marginalization 53048
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22589
78 Dual 5548
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20776
80 Echelon Inventory 26469
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38473
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50215
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7749
84 Efficient Frontier 25755
85 Engineer-to-Order 32000
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16826
87 Erlang B Formula 9480
88 ETD 8461
89 Ex Works 7948
90 Exception Rate 13692
91 Exponential smoothing 9950
92 External Growth 10247
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9679
94 Field Services 7841
95 Field Warehouse 11059
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8996
97 Fishbone Diagram 14785
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27362
99 Flow Through Distribution 12495
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8350
101 FOB Destination 13237
102 Forward buying 30443
103 Freight Charge 10534
104 Freight Consolidation 7639
105 Gantt Chart 8390
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11940
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29784
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12855
109 Hub 23660
110 Idle Time 8201
111 Import/Export License 8860
112 In Bond Shipment 14146
113 Inbound Logistics 13764
114 Interstate System 11147
115 Inventory Costs 54129
116 Inventory in Transit 16758
117 Inventory Management 55317
118 Inventory Planning System 10008
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22528
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43500
121 JIT 2 18586
122 Job Production 28309
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9288
124 Kanban Squares 6983
125 Laid-Down Cost 10397
126 Lean Office 6262
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10928
128 Lee's Notation 8676
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14485
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37686
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9459
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7631
133 Logistics Channel 23089
134 Logistics Costs 26903
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6776
136 Manifest 10713
137 Marks and Numbers 12830
138 Material Planning 35404
139 Materials Management 26585
140 Milk Run 43409
141 Mini Land Bridge 14576
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9754
143 Modal Split 15622
144 Movement of Goods 19734
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31961
146 North West Corner Method 16989
147 Numeric Distribution 14418
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28779
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48851
150 Operational Efficiency 10078
151 Operational Objectives 13501
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18231
153 Operational Sustainability 28321
154 Operations Management 21131
155 Order Cancellation 11003
156 Order Cycle 18601
157 Order Cycle Time 23702
158 Order Fill Rate 34264
159 Order Fulfillment 6594
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10494
 
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