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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 43822
62 Date Code 18036
63 Days of Supply 19675
64 Dead on Arrival 9094
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7209
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7998
67 Detective Control 8807
68 Devanning 14117
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10746
70 Dispatching 24169
71 Distributed Inventory 8261
72 Distribution Channel Management 34445
73 Distribution Metrics 8944
74 Distribution Planning 24063
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15057
76 Double Marginalization 52451
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22156
78 Dual 5368
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20468
80 Echelon Inventory 26021
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38127
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49338
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7519
84 Efficient Frontier 25266
85 Engineer-to-Order 31539
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16224
87 Erlang B Formula 9241
88 ETD 8225
89 Ex Works 7760
90 Exception Rate 13333
91 Exponential smoothing 9738
92 External Growth 9953
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9331
94 Field Services 7671
95 Field Warehouse 9892
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8630
97 Fishbone Diagram 14493
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26811
99 Flow Through Distribution 12193
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8062
101 FOB Destination 12896
102 Forward buying 29908
103 Freight Charge 10228
104 Freight Consolidation 7437
105 Gantt Chart 8211
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11598
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29391
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12567
109 Hub 23257
110 Idle Time 7973
111 Import/Export License 8611
112 In Bond Shipment 13778
113 Inbound Logistics 13425
114 Interstate System 10896
115 Inventory Costs 53238
116 Inventory in Transit 16295
117 Inventory Management 54374
118 Inventory Planning System 9699
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22141
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42141
121 JIT 2 18332
122 Job Production 27217
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8936
124 Kanban Squares 6746
125 Laid-Down Cost 10039
126 Lean Office 5938
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8473
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14054
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36844
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9117
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7365
133 Logistics Channel 22752
134 Logistics Costs 26491
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6617
136 Manifest 10418
137 Marks and Numbers 12456
138 Material Planning 34916
139 Materials Management 26223
140 Milk Run 42849
141 Mini Land Bridge 14298
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9393
143 Modal Split 15258
144 Movement of Goods 19314
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31364
146 North West Corner Method 16770
147 Numeric Distribution 14044
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28381
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48173
150 Operational Efficiency 9841
151 Operational Objectives 13243
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18046
153 Operational Sustainability 27728
154 Operations Management 20394
155 Order Cancellation 10673
156 Order Cycle 18332
157 Order Cycle Time 23391
158 Order Fill Rate 33861
159 Order Fulfillment 6390
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10183
 
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