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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 44309
62 Date Code 18342
63 Days of Supply 19925
64 Dead on Arrival 9407
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7359
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8176
67 Detective Control 8969
68 Devanning 14275
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11029
70 Dispatching 24650
71 Distributed Inventory 8412
72 Distribution Channel Management 34939
73 Distribution Metrics 9214
74 Distribution Planning 24279
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15310
76 Double Marginalization 52869
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22468
78 Dual 5481
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20689
80 Echelon Inventory 26286
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38339
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49931
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7671
84 Efficient Frontier 25590
85 Engineer-to-Order 31858
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16642
87 Erlang B Formula 9404
88 ETD 8382
89 Ex Works 7879
90 Exception Rate 13573
91 Exponential smoothing 9875
92 External Growth 10151
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9576
94 Field Services 7786
95 Field Warehouse 10701
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8862
97 Fishbone Diagram 14678
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27176
99 Flow Through Distribution 12383
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8245
101 FOB Destination 13125
102 Forward buying 30301
103 Freight Charge 10466
104 Freight Consolidation 7585
105 Gantt Chart 8335
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11804
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29675
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12756
109 Hub 23531
110 Idle Time 8125
111 Import/Export License 8787
112 In Bond Shipment 14045
113 Inbound Logistics 13662
114 Interstate System 11071
115 Inventory Costs 53873
116 Inventory in Transit 16612
117 Inventory Management 55014
118 Inventory Planning System 9923
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22386
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43102
121 JIT 2 18506
122 Job Production 27941
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9200
124 Kanban Squares 6897
125 Laid-Down Cost 10285
126 Lean Office 6182
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10892
128 Lee's Notation 8622
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14341
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37447
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9352
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7573
133 Logistics Channel 22988
134 Logistics Costs 26771
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6724
136 Manifest 10611
137 Marks and Numbers 12699
138 Material Planning 35242
139 Materials Management 26461
140 Milk Run 43236
141 Mini Land Bridge 14485
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9646
143 Modal Split 15511
144 Movement of Goods 19571
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31808
146 North West Corner Method 16917
147 Numeric Distribution 14310
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28649
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48611
150 Operational Efficiency 10001
151 Operational Objectives 13424
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18175
153 Operational Sustainability 28171
154 Operations Management 20962
155 Order Cancellation 10904
156 Order Cycle 18516
157 Order Cycle Time 23594
158 Order Fill Rate 34132
159 Order Fulfillment 6521
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10392
 
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