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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 44568
62 Date Code 18552
63 Days of Supply 20028
64 Dead on Arrival 9507
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7438
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8266
67 Detective Control 9066
68 Devanning 14354
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11127
70 Dispatching 24833
71 Distributed Inventory 8477
72 Distribution Channel Management 35161
73 Distribution Metrics 9345
74 Distribution Planning 24394
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15437
76 Double Marginalization 53042
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22585
78 Dual 5543
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20775
80 Echelon Inventory 26461
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38468
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50205
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7745
84 Efficient Frontier 25751
85 Engineer-to-Order 31996
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16822
87 Erlang B Formula 9477
88 ETD 8459
89 Ex Works 7945
90 Exception Rate 13686
91 Exponential smoothing 9948
92 External Growth 10243
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9673
94 Field Services 7837
95 Field Warehouse 11045
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8994
97 Fishbone Diagram 14781
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27359
99 Flow Through Distribution 12491
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8346
101 FOB Destination 13231
102 Forward buying 30438
103 Freight Charge 10532
104 Freight Consolidation 7636
105 Gantt Chart 8387
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11937
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29780
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12851
109 Hub 23655
110 Idle Time 8196
111 Import/Export License 8858
112 In Bond Shipment 14141
113 Inbound Logistics 13760
114 Interstate System 11143
115 Inventory Costs 54120
116 Inventory in Transit 16754
117 Inventory Management 55308
118 Inventory Planning System 10006
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22523
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43481
121 JIT 2 18584
122 Job Production 28296
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9283
124 Kanban Squares 6982
125 Laid-Down Cost 10394
126 Lean Office 6260
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10927
128 Lee's Notation 8674
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14482
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37681
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9454
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7628
133 Logistics Channel 23087
134 Logistics Costs 26898
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6773
136 Manifest 10711
137 Marks and Numbers 12825
138 Material Planning 35393
139 Materials Management 26577
140 Milk Run 43403
141 Mini Land Bridge 14572
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9748
143 Modal Split 15620
144 Movement of Goods 19732
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31958
146 North West Corner Method 16985
147 Numeric Distribution 14414
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28775
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48844
150 Operational Efficiency 10073
151 Operational Objectives 13500
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18229
153 Operational Sustainability 28316
154 Operations Management 21125
155 Order Cancellation 11000
156 Order Cycle 18597
157 Order Cycle Time 23700
158 Order Fill Rate 34258
159 Order Fulfillment 6592
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10490
 
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