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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 43605
62 Date Code 17881
63 Days of Supply 19582
64 Dead on Arrival 9016
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7135
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7922
67 Detective Control 8744
68 Devanning 14055
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10673
70 Dispatching 23898
71 Distributed Inventory 8210
72 Distribution Channel Management 34257
73 Distribution Metrics 8830
74 Distribution Planning 23980
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14957
76 Double Marginalization 52332
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22075
78 Dual 5321
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20381
80 Echelon Inventory 25930
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38040
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49128
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7459
84 Efficient Frontier 25116
85 Engineer-to-Order 31402
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16080
87 Erlang B Formula 9161
88 ETD 8150
89 Ex Works 7716
90 Exception Rate 13234
91 Exponential smoothing 9669
92 External Growth 9877
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9265
94 Field Services 7625
95 Field Warehouse 9748
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8535
97 Fishbone Diagram 14403
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26667
99 Flow Through Distribution 12120
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7993
101 FOB Destination 12791
102 Forward buying 29824
103 Freight Charge 10158
104 Freight Consolidation 7383
105 Gantt Chart 8163
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11516
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29284
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12492
109 Hub 23156
110 Idle Time 7917
111 Import/Export License 8550
112 In Bond Shipment 13705
113 Inbound Logistics 13311
114 Interstate System 10826
115 Inventory Costs 53013
116 Inventory in Transit 16197
117 Inventory Management 54095
118 Inventory Planning System 9641
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22042
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41748
121 JIT 2 18275
122 Job Production 26924
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8853
124 Kanban Squares 6689
125 Laid-Down Cost 9954
126 Lean Office 5872
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10770
128 Lee's Notation 8415
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13935
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36547
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9021
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7321
133 Logistics Channel 22653
134 Logistics Costs 26392
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6580
136 Manifest 10334
137 Marks and Numbers 12338
138 Material Planning 34746
139 Materials Management 26116
140 Milk Run 42676
141 Mini Land Bridge 14219
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9299
143 Modal Split 15115
144 Movement of Goods 19215
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31219
146 North West Corner Method 16705
147 Numeric Distribution 13946
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28259
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48016
150 Operational Efficiency 9768
151 Operational Objectives 13173
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17984
153 Operational Sustainability 27609
154 Operations Management 20138
155 Order Cancellation 10550
156 Order Cycle 18244
157 Order Cycle Time 23306
158 Order Fill Rate 33749
159 Order Fulfillment 6342
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10098
 
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