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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 43754
62 Date Code 17993
63 Days of Supply 19652
64 Dead on Arrival 9072
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7187
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7979
67 Detective Control 8787
68 Devanning 14098
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10725
70 Dispatching 24067
71 Distributed Inventory 8248
72 Distribution Channel Management 34390
73 Distribution Metrics 8909
74 Distribution Planning 24038
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15022
76 Double Marginalization 52407
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22133
78 Dual 5351
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20440
80 Echelon Inventory 25982
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38099
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49262
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7504
84 Efficient Frontier 25218
85 Engineer-to-Order 31499
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16176
87 Erlang B Formula 9220
88 ETD 8203
89 Ex Works 7744
90 Exception Rate 13303
91 Exponential smoothing 9724
92 External Growth 9932
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9310
94 Field Services 7655
95 Field Warehouse 9816
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8599
97 Fishbone Diagram 14460
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26771
99 Flow Through Distribution 12166
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8041
101 FOB Destination 12865
102 Forward buying 29882
103 Freight Charge 10206
104 Freight Consolidation 7420
105 Gantt Chart 8199
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11573
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29366
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12543
109 Hub 23225
110 Idle Time 7956
111 Import/Export License 8591
112 In Bond Shipment 13753
113 Inbound Logistics 13394
114 Interstate System 10875
115 Inventory Costs 53169
116 Inventory in Transit 16271
117 Inventory Management 54292
118 Inventory Planning System 9681
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22110
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42014
121 JIT 2 18317
122 Job Production 27132
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8916
124 Kanban Squares 6735
125 Laid-Down Cost 10009
126 Lean Office 5917
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10790
128 Lee's Notation 8459
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14020
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36749
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9092
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7351
133 Logistics Channel 22729
134 Logistics Costs 26458
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6605
136 Manifest 10392
137 Marks and Numbers 12422
138 Material Planning 34869
139 Materials Management 26197
140 Milk Run 42798
141 Mini Land Bridge 14269
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9367
143 Modal Split 15214
144 Movement of Goods 19279
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31318
146 North West Corner Method 16751
147 Numeric Distribution 14009
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28339
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48126
150 Operational Efficiency 9823
151 Operational Objectives 13226
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18021
153 Operational Sustainability 27689
154 Operations Management 20304
155 Order Cancellation 10637
156 Order Cycle 18304
157 Order Cycle Time 23363
158 Order Fill Rate 33822
159 Order Fulfillment 6378
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10156
 
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