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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 43700
62 Date Code 17943
63 Days of Supply 19622
64 Dead on Arrival 9053
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7170
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7963
67 Detective Control 8769
68 Devanning 14082
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10702
70 Dispatching 24004
71 Distributed Inventory 8231
72 Distribution Channel Management 34349
73 Distribution Metrics 8881
74 Distribution Planning 24015
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14997
76 Double Marginalization 52380
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22114
78 Dual 5343
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20418
80 Echelon Inventory 25968
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38074
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49205
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7490
84 Efficient Frontier 25188
85 Engineer-to-Order 31459
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16133
87 Erlang B Formula 9198
88 ETD 8180
89 Ex Works 7733
90 Exception Rate 13277
91 Exponential smoothing 9700
92 External Growth 9914
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9292
94 Field Services 7644
95 Field Warehouse 9777
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8570
97 Fishbone Diagram 14446
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26732
99 Flow Through Distribution 12150
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8025
101 FOB Destination 12837
102 Forward buying 29855
103 Freight Charge 10190
104 Freight Consolidation 7409
105 Gantt Chart 8186
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11553
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29336
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12527
109 Hub 23198
110 Idle Time 7940
111 Import/Export License 8579
112 In Bond Shipment 13739
113 Inbound Logistics 13366
114 Interstate System 10856
115 Inventory Costs 53110
116 Inventory in Transit 16243
117 Inventory Management 54215
118 Inventory Planning System 9668
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22091
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41916
121 JIT 2 18304
122 Job Production 27047
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8893
124 Kanban Squares 6716
125 Laid-Down Cost 9992
126 Lean Office 5898
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10783
128 Lee's Notation 8442
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13989
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36673
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9063
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7339
133 Logistics Channel 22700
134 Logistics Costs 26432
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6595
136 Manifest 10373
137 Marks and Numbers 12383
138 Material Planning 34822
139 Materials Management 26166
140 Milk Run 42756
141 Mini Land Bridge 14254
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9338
143 Modal Split 15176
144 Movement of Goods 19259
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31288
146 North West Corner Method 16734
147 Numeric Distribution 13987
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28304
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48082
150 Operational Efficiency 9798
151 Operational Objectives 13203
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18008
153 Operational Sustainability 27656
154 Operations Management 20238
155 Order Cancellation 10607
156 Order Cycle 18280
157 Order Cycle Time 23341
158 Order Fill Rate 33789
159 Order Fulfillment 6365
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10135
 
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