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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 44205
62 Date Code 18267
63 Days of Supply 19861
64 Dead on Arrival 9347
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7328
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8129
67 Detective Control 8928
68 Devanning 14230
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10985
70 Dispatching 24559
71 Distributed Inventory 8374
72 Distribution Channel Management 34798
73 Distribution Metrics 9144
74 Distribution Planning 24227
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15241
76 Double Marginalization 52784
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22405
78 Dual 5456
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20636
80 Echelon Inventory 26238
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38294
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49786
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7633
84 Efficient Frontier 25519
85 Engineer-to-Order 31785
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16556
87 Erlang B Formula 9365
88 ETD 8346
89 Ex Works 7849
90 Exception Rate 13516
91 Exponential smoothing 9844
92 External Growth 10098
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9534
94 Field Services 7757
95 Field Warehouse 10541
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8791
97 Fishbone Diagram 14629
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27073
99 Flow Through Distribution 12333
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8198
101 FOB Destination 13061
102 Forward buying 30201
103 Freight Charge 10427
104 Freight Consolidation 7547
105 Gantt Chart 8304
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11754
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29615
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12708
109 Hub 23462
110 Idle Time 8086
111 Import/Export License 8741
112 In Bond Shipment 13989
113 Inbound Logistics 13614
114 Interstate System 11028
115 Inventory Costs 53723
116 Inventory in Transit 16560
117 Inventory Management 54877
118 Inventory Planning System 9889
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22329
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42834
121 JIT 2 18463
122 Job Production 27759
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9163
124 Kanban Squares 6857
125 Laid-Down Cost 10215
126 Lean Office 6142
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10869
128 Lee's Notation 8582
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14266
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37337
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9300
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7545
133 Logistics Channel 22942
134 Logistics Costs 26711
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6702
136 Manifest 10559
137 Marks and Numbers 12633
138 Material Planning 35153
139 Materials Management 26399
140 Milk Run 43147
141 Mini Land Bridge 14441
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9587
143 Modal Split 15457
144 Movement of Goods 19510
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31701
146 North West Corner Method 16884
147 Numeric Distribution 14252
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28586
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48499
150 Operational Efficiency 9965
151 Operational Objectives 13380
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18138
153 Operational Sustainability 28070
154 Operations Management 20855
155 Order Cancellation 10853
156 Order Cycle 18466
157 Order Cycle Time 23546
158 Order Fill Rate 34061
159 Order Fulfillment 6489
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10340
 
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