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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 43219
62 Date Code 17689
63 Days of Supply 19423
64 Dead on Arrival 8887
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7056
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7823
67 Detective Control 8672
68 Devanning 13955
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10561
70 Dispatching 23560
71 Distributed Inventory 8148
72 Distribution Channel Management 33971
73 Distribution Metrics 8670
74 Distribution Planning 23859
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14809
76 Double Marginalization 52131
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21958
78 Dual 5231
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20277
80 Echelon Inventory 25829
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37917
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48756
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7383
84 Efficient Frontier 24911
85 Engineer-to-Order 31207
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15883
87 Erlang B Formula 9058
88 ETD 8060
89 Ex Works 7655
90 Exception Rate 13104
91 Exponential smoothing 9586
92 External Growth 9796
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9183
94 Field Services 7570
95 Field Warehouse 9656
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8389
97 Fishbone Diagram 14278
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26473
99 Flow Through Distribution 12011
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7892
101 FOB Destination 12646
102 Forward buying 29675
103 Freight Charge 10070
104 Freight Consolidation 7297
105 Gantt Chart 8092
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11372
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29130
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12404
109 Hub 23002
110 Idle Time 7843
111 Import/Export License 8454
112 In Bond Shipment 13577
113 Inbound Logistics 13175
114 Interstate System 10761
115 Inventory Costs 52651
116 Inventory in Transit 16053
117 Inventory Management 53757
118 Inventory Planning System 9553
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21866
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41234
121 JIT 2 18186
122 Job Production 26519
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8732
124 Kanban Squares 6593
125 Laid-Down Cost 9870
126 Lean Office 5780
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10719
128 Lee's Notation 8331
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13776
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36203
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8933
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7226
133 Logistics Channel 22526
134 Logistics Costs 26242
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6521
136 Manifest 10202
137 Marks and Numbers 12234
138 Material Planning 34512
139 Materials Management 25992
140 Milk Run 42354
141 Mini Land Bridge 14100
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9148
143 Modal Split 14930
144 Movement of Goods 19089
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31021
146 North West Corner Method 16623
147 Numeric Distribution 13812
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28106
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47796
150 Operational Efficiency 9652
151 Operational Objectives 13088
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17917
153 Operational Sustainability 27438
154 Operations Management 19792
155 Order Cancellation 10380
156 Order Cycle 18137
157 Order Cycle Time 23150
158 Order Fill Rate 33580
159 Order Fulfillment 6264
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10018
 
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