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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 44133
62 Date Code 18216
63 Days of Supply 19828
64 Dead on Arrival 9307
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7307
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8102
67 Detective Control 8904
68 Devanning 14207
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10938
70 Dispatching 24500
71 Distributed Inventory 8352
72 Distribution Channel Management 34726
73 Distribution Metrics 9109
74 Distribution Planning 24196
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15206
76 Double Marginalization 52708
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22362
78 Dual 5439
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20602
80 Echelon Inventory 26195
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38257
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49708
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7611
84 Efficient Frontier 25472
85 Engineer-to-Order 31730
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16493
87 Erlang B Formula 9343
88 ETD 8326
89 Ex Works 7831
90 Exception Rate 13486
91 Exponential smoothing 9827
92 External Growth 10072
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9497
94 Field Services 7742
95 Field Warehouse 10437
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8754
97 Fishbone Diagram 14603
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27018
99 Flow Through Distribution 12305
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8171
101 FOB Destination 13026
102 Forward buying 30140
103 Freight Charge 10395
104 Freight Consolidation 7525
105 Gantt Chart 8288
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11729
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29578
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12678
109 Hub 23423
110 Idle Time 8065
111 Import/Export License 8714
112 In Bond Shipment 13943
113 Inbound Logistics 13577
114 Interstate System 10999
115 Inventory Costs 53611
116 Inventory in Transit 16515
117 Inventory Management 54774
118 Inventory Planning System 9854
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22288
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42691
121 JIT 2 18437
122 Job Production 27645
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9127
124 Kanban Squares 6828
125 Laid-Down Cost 10178
126 Lean Office 6113
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10856
128 Lee's Notation 8567
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14221
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37256
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9267
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7512
133 Logistics Channel 22901
134 Logistics Costs 26669
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6685
136 Manifest 10529
137 Marks and Numbers 12598
138 Material Planning 35095
139 Materials Management 26368
140 Milk Run 43096
141 Mini Land Bridge 14415
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9557
143 Modal Split 15415
144 Movement of Goods 19475
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31628
146 North West Corner Method 16861
147 Numeric Distribution 14221
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28545
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48434
150 Operational Efficiency 9942
151 Operational Objectives 13351
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18123
153 Operational Sustainability 27997
154 Operations Management 20745
155 Order Cancellation 10819
156 Order Cycle 18445
157 Order Cycle Time 23512
158 Order Fill Rate 34025
159 Order Fulfillment 6471
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10311
 
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