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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 44554
62 Date Code 18540
63 Days of Supply 20020
64 Dead on Arrival 9502
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7431
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8257
67 Detective Control 9058
68 Devanning 14350
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11121
70 Dispatching 24821
71 Distributed Inventory 8472
72 Distribution Channel Management 35153
73 Distribution Metrics 9333
74 Distribution Planning 24388
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15420
76 Double Marginalization 53028
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22576
78 Dual 5535
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20768
80 Echelon Inventory 26452
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38459
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50189
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7738
84 Efficient Frontier 25738
85 Engineer-to-Order 31985
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16811
87 Erlang B Formula 9472
88 ETD 8452
89 Ex Works 7935
90 Exception Rate 13679
91 Exponential smoothing 9942
92 External Growth 10236
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9666
94 Field Services 7833
95 Field Warehouse 11019
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8987
97 Fishbone Diagram 14767
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27347
99 Flow Through Distribution 12482
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8338
101 FOB Destination 13225
102 Forward buying 30426
103 Freight Charge 10527
104 Freight Consolidation 7632
105 Gantt Chart 8385
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11923
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29773
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12845
109 Hub 23645
110 Idle Time 8189
111 Import/Export License 8852
112 In Bond Shipment 14136
113 Inbound Logistics 13758
114 Interstate System 11136
115 Inventory Costs 54102
116 Inventory in Transit 16741
117 Inventory Management 55285
118 Inventory Planning System 9998
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22516
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43448
121 JIT 2 18577
122 Job Production 28274
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9277
124 Kanban Squares 6977
125 Laid-Down Cost 10387
126 Lean Office 6254
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10922
128 Lee's Notation 8664
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14471
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37674
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9445
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7620
133 Logistics Channel 23080
134 Logistics Costs 26890
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6771
136 Manifest 10703
137 Marks and Numbers 12814
138 Material Planning 35382
139 Materials Management 26567
140 Milk Run 43393
141 Mini Land Bridge 14564
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9743
143 Modal Split 15613
144 Movement of Goods 19713
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31948
146 North West Corner Method 16983
147 Numeric Distribution 14404
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28770
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48829
150 Operational Efficiency 10069
151 Operational Objectives 13496
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18222
153 Operational Sustainability 28303
154 Operations Management 21116
155 Order Cancellation 10992
156 Order Cycle 18591
157 Order Cycle Time 23690
158 Order Fill Rate 34248
159 Order Fulfillment 6583
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10483
 
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