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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 44187
62 Date Code 18252
63 Days of Supply 19852
64 Dead on Arrival 9336
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7319
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8121
67 Detective Control 8922
68 Devanning 14221
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10974
70 Dispatching 24539
71 Distributed Inventory 8366
72 Distribution Channel Management 34776
73 Distribution Metrics 9130
74 Distribution Planning 24213
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15229
76 Double Marginalization 52766
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22395
78 Dual 5449
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20625
80 Echelon Inventory 26222
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38286
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49769
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7629
84 Efficient Frontier 25504
85 Engineer-to-Order 31764
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16539
87 Erlang B Formula 9358
88 ETD 8342
89 Ex Works 7843
90 Exception Rate 13506
91 Exponential smoothing 9839
92 External Growth 10089
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9530
94 Field Services 7748
95 Field Warehouse 10504
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8782
97 Fishbone Diagram 14620
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27054
99 Flow Through Distribution 12322
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8188
101 FOB Destination 13044
102 Forward buying 30182
103 Freight Charge 10421
104 Freight Consolidation 7539
105 Gantt Chart 8298
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11745
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29601
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12696
109 Hub 23451
110 Idle Time 8077
111 Import/Export License 8731
112 In Bond Shipment 13968
113 Inbound Logistics 13599
114 Interstate System 11018
115 Inventory Costs 53683
116 Inventory in Transit 16547
117 Inventory Management 54839
118 Inventory Planning System 9882
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22316
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42780
121 JIT 2 18452
122 Job Production 27724
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9157
124 Kanban Squares 6849
125 Laid-Down Cost 10206
126 Lean Office 6133
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10866
128 Lee's Notation 8578
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14253
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37313
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9284
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7539
133 Logistics Channel 22929
134 Logistics Costs 26702
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6699
136 Manifest 10550
137 Marks and Numbers 12622
138 Material Planning 35124
139 Materials Management 26387
140 Milk Run 43136
141 Mini Land Bridge 14431
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9576
143 Modal Split 15444
144 Movement of Goods 19501
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31676
146 North West Corner Method 16879
147 Numeric Distribution 14242
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28570
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48481
150 Operational Efficiency 9956
151 Operational Objectives 13362
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18132
153 Operational Sustainability 28047
154 Operations Management 20822
155 Order Cancellation 10844
156 Order Cycle 18459
157 Order Cycle Time 23532
158 Order Fill Rate 34053
159 Order Fulfillment 6483
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10333
 
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