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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 44283
62 Date Code 18325
63 Days of Supply 19908
64 Dead on Arrival 9393
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7352
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8165
67 Detective Control 8957
68 Devanning 14266
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11017
70 Dispatching 24622
71 Distributed Inventory 8402
72 Distribution Channel Management 34902
73 Distribution Metrics 9197
74 Distribution Planning 24264
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15295
76 Double Marginalization 52851
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22453
78 Dual 5472
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20672
80 Echelon Inventory 26269
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38329
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49896
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7662
84 Efficient Frontier 25580
85 Engineer-to-Order 31841
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16622
87 Erlang B Formula 9395
88 ETD 8371
89 Ex Works 7871
90 Exception Rate 13555
91 Exponential smoothing 9866
92 External Growth 10136
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9566
94 Field Services 7776
95 Field Warehouse 10652
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8847
97 Fishbone Diagram 14667
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27159
99 Flow Through Distribution 12371
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8230
101 FOB Destination 13112
102 Forward buying 30277
103 Freight Charge 10454
104 Freight Consolidation 7577
105 Gantt Chart 8329
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11791
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29658
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12745
109 Hub 23514
110 Idle Time 8111
111 Import/Export License 8773
112 In Bond Shipment 14027
113 Inbound Logistics 13647
114 Interstate System 11059
115 Inventory Costs 53834
116 Inventory in Transit 16594
117 Inventory Management 54984
118 Inventory Planning System 9914
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22367
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43057
121 JIT 2 18496
122 Job Production 27892
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9189
124 Kanban Squares 6883
125 Laid-Down Cost 10264
126 Lean Office 6168
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10887
128 Lee's Notation 8608
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14326
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37424
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9341
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7563
133 Logistics Channel 22975
134 Logistics Costs 26751
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6719
136 Manifest 10596
137 Marks and Numbers 12689
138 Material Planning 35218
139 Materials Management 26444
140 Milk Run 43215
141 Mini Land Bridge 14469
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9629
143 Modal Split 15498
144 Movement of Goods 19553
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31779
146 North West Corner Method 16909
147 Numeric Distribution 14295
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28635
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48585
150 Operational Efficiency 9989
151 Operational Objectives 13412
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18163
153 Operational Sustainability 28150
154 Operations Management 20939
155 Order Cancellation 10892
156 Order Cycle 18505
157 Order Cycle Time 23583
158 Order Fill Rate 34114
159 Order Fulfillment 6511
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10379
 
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