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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 44557
62 Date Code 18541
63 Days of Supply 20023
64 Dead on Arrival 9503
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7433
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8259
67 Detective Control 9059
68 Devanning 14351
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11122
70 Dispatching 24822
71 Distributed Inventory 8472
72 Distribution Channel Management 35154
73 Distribution Metrics 9335
74 Distribution Planning 24389
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15426
76 Double Marginalization 53030
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22577
78 Dual 5536
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20769
80 Echelon Inventory 26453
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38460
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50192
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7739
84 Efficient Frontier 25742
85 Engineer-to-Order 31986
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16813
87 Erlang B Formula 9473
88 ETD 8454
89 Ex Works 7936
90 Exception Rate 13681
91 Exponential smoothing 9942
92 External Growth 10239
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9669
94 Field Services 7833
95 Field Warehouse 11023
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8988
97 Fishbone Diagram 14770
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27349
99 Flow Through Distribution 12484
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8339
101 FOB Destination 13225
102 Forward buying 30429
103 Freight Charge 10527
104 Freight Consolidation 7632
105 Gantt Chart 8385
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11925
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29774
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12846
109 Hub 23648
110 Idle Time 8189
111 Import/Export License 8853
112 In Bond Shipment 14139
113 Inbound Logistics 13758
114 Interstate System 11138
115 Inventory Costs 54103
116 Inventory in Transit 16743
117 Inventory Management 55290
118 Inventory Planning System 9999
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22518
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43458
121 JIT 2 18577
122 Job Production 28279
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9278
124 Kanban Squares 6978
125 Laid-Down Cost 10390
126 Lean Office 6254
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10923
128 Lee's Notation 8665
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14477
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37675
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9445
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7621
133 Logistics Channel 23081
134 Logistics Costs 26892
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6771
136 Manifest 10704
137 Marks and Numbers 12817
138 Material Planning 35383
139 Materials Management 26568
140 Milk Run 43394
141 Mini Land Bridge 14565
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9743
143 Modal Split 15614
144 Movement of Goods 19715
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31950
146 North West Corner Method 16984
147 Numeric Distribution 14405
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28770
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48831
150 Operational Efficiency 10069
151 Operational Objectives 13497
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18223
153 Operational Sustainability 28305
154 Operations Management 21117
155 Order Cancellation 10994
156 Order Cycle 18592
157 Order Cycle Time 23693
158 Order Fill Rate 34250
159 Order Fulfillment 6585
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10484
 
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