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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 43868
62 Date Code 18057
63 Days of Supply 19693
64 Dead on Arrival 9114
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7220
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8008
67 Detective Control 8821
68 Devanning 14129
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10766
70 Dispatching 24210
71 Distributed Inventory 8276
72 Distribution Channel Management 34486
73 Distribution Metrics 8966
74 Distribution Planning 24079
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15080
76 Double Marginalization 52478
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22173
78 Dual 5376
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20486
80 Echelon Inventory 26040
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38146
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49385
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7532
84 Efficient Frontier 25289
85 Engineer-to-Order 31565
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16251
87 Erlang B Formula 9254
88 ETD 8241
89 Ex Works 7772
90 Exception Rate 13353
91 Exponential smoothing 9750
92 External Growth 9964
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9342
94 Field Services 7680
95 Field Warehouse 9960
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8646
97 Fishbone Diagram 14506
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26834
99 Flow Through Distribution 12208
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8078
101 FOB Destination 12919
102 Forward buying 29933
103 Freight Charge 10237
104 Freight Consolidation 7449
105 Gantt Chart 8220
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11618
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29417
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12580
109 Hub 23277
110 Idle Time 7983
111 Import/Export License 8624
112 In Bond Shipment 13799
113 Inbound Logistics 13447
114 Interstate System 10912
115 Inventory Costs 53291
116 Inventory in Transit 16310
117 Inventory Management 54429
118 Inventory Planning System 9711
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22160
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42212
121 JIT 2 18347
122 Job Production 27272
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8953
124 Kanban Squares 6757
125 Laid-Down Cost 10053
126 Lean Office 5949
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10807
128 Lee's Notation 8492
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14077
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36899
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9143
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7373
133 Logistics Channel 22770
134 Logistics Costs 26506
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6626
136 Manifest 10436
137 Marks and Numbers 12482
138 Material Planning 34932
139 Materials Management 26239
140 Milk Run 42883
141 Mini Land Bridge 14317
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9413
143 Modal Split 15281
144 Movement of Goods 19334
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31393
146 North West Corner Method 16781
147 Numeric Distribution 14070
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28403
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48210
150 Operational Efficiency 9853
151 Operational Objectives 13256
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18058
153 Operational Sustainability 27755
154 Operations Management 20436
155 Order Cancellation 10699
156 Order Cycle 18344
157 Order Cycle Time 23405
158 Order Fill Rate 33879
159 Order Fulfillment 6399
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10198
 
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