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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 44270
62 Date Code 18315
63 Days of Supply 19898
64 Dead on Arrival 9382
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7347
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8156
67 Detective Control 8948
68 Devanning 14258
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11009
70 Dispatching 24610
71 Distributed Inventory 8397
72 Distribution Channel Management 34885
73 Distribution Metrics 9187
74 Distribution Planning 24253
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15284
76 Double Marginalization 52839
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22447
78 Dual 5471
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20664
80 Echelon Inventory 26260
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38317
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49874
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7656
84 Efficient Frontier 25573
85 Engineer-to-Order 31835
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16610
87 Erlang B Formula 9388
88 ETD 8365
89 Ex Works 7867
90 Exception Rate 13547
91 Exponential smoothing 9859
92 External Growth 10127
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9561
94 Field Services 7770
95 Field Warehouse 10628
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8838
97 Fishbone Diagram 14659
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27140
99 Flow Through Distribution 12362
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8221
101 FOB Destination 13104
102 Forward buying 30262
103 Freight Charge 10447
104 Freight Consolidation 7570
105 Gantt Chart 8326
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11784
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29650
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12737
109 Hub 23502
110 Idle Time 8107
111 Import/Export License 8767
112 In Bond Shipment 14022
113 Inbound Logistics 13639
114 Interstate System 11052
115 Inventory Costs 53807
116 Inventory in Transit 16588
117 Inventory Management 54958
118 Inventory Planning System 9907
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22359
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43022
121 JIT 2 18490
122 Job Production 27864
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9180
124 Kanban Squares 6875
125 Laid-Down Cost 10257
126 Lean Office 6159
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10884
128 Lee's Notation 8604
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14314
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37408
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9332
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7560
133 Logistics Channel 22969
134 Logistics Costs 26743
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6716
136 Manifest 10586
137 Marks and Numbers 12673
138 Material Planning 35211
139 Materials Management 26433
140 Milk Run 43198
141 Mini Land Bridge 14464
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9619
143 Modal Split 15491
144 Movement of Goods 19547
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31767
146 North West Corner Method 16904
147 Numeric Distribution 14286
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28619
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48569
150 Operational Efficiency 9983
151 Operational Objectives 13406
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18159
153 Operational Sustainability 28137
154 Operations Management 20923
155 Order Cancellation 10885
156 Order Cycle 18497
157 Order Cycle Time 23574
158 Order Fill Rate 34105
159 Order Fulfillment 6508
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10370
 
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