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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 44420
62 Date Code 18441
63 Days of Supply 19972
64 Dead on Arrival 9454
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7395
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8215
67 Detective Control 9008
68 Devanning 14316
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11074
70 Dispatching 24730
71 Distributed Inventory 8445
72 Distribution Channel Management 35052
73 Distribution Metrics 9268
74 Distribution Planning 24332
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15371
76 Double Marginalization 52951
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22520
78 Dual 5502
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20730
80 Echelon Inventory 26351
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38393
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50051
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7707
84 Efficient Frontier 25660
85 Engineer-to-Order 31914
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16714
87 Erlang B Formula 9440
88 ETD 8413
89 Ex Works 7907
90 Exception Rate 13630
91 Exponential smoothing 9914
92 External Growth 10190
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9616
94 Field Services 7802
95 Field Warehouse 10849
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8919
97 Fishbone Diagram 14722
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27255
99 Flow Through Distribution 12430
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8285
101 FOB Destination 13167
102 Forward buying 30362
103 Freight Charge 10499
104 Freight Consolidation 7605
105 Gantt Chart 8355
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11858
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29722
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12796
109 Hub 23578
110 Idle Time 8153
111 Import/Export License 8819
112 In Bond Shipment 14087
113 Inbound Logistics 13706
114 Interstate System 11102
115 Inventory Costs 53990
116 Inventory in Transit 16675
117 Inventory Management 55138
118 Inventory Planning System 9958
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22448
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43240
121 JIT 2 18539
122 Job Production 28098
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9239
124 Kanban Squares 6939
125 Laid-Down Cost 10334
126 Lean Office 6215
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10907
128 Lee's Notation 8639
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14407
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37551
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9398
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7594
133 Logistics Channel 23038
134 Logistics Costs 26836
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6748
136 Manifest 10659
137 Marks and Numbers 12762
138 Material Planning 35308
139 Materials Management 26512
140 Milk Run 43316
141 Mini Land Bridge 14527
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9698
143 Modal Split 15563
144 Movement of Goods 19624
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31876
146 North West Corner Method 16949
147 Numeric Distribution 14357
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28710
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48730
150 Operational Efficiency 10035
151 Operational Objectives 13464
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18196
153 Operational Sustainability 28236
154 Operations Management 21036
155 Order Cancellation 10940
156 Order Cycle 18550
157 Order Cycle Time 23641
158 Order Fill Rate 34181
159 Order Fulfillment 6555
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10437
 
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