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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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71 Distributed Inventory 8372
72 Distribution Channel Management 34790
73 Distribution Metrics 9134
74 Distribution Planning 24225
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15239
76 Double Marginalization 52780
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22403
78 Dual 5454
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20631
80 Echelon Inventory 26234
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38292
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49782
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7632
84 Efficient Frontier 25513
85 Engineer-to-Order 31781
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16552
87 Erlang B Formula 9362
88 ETD 8345
89 Ex Works 7848
90 Exception Rate 13511
91 Exponential smoothing 9843
92 External Growth 10093
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9534
94 Field Services 7754
95 Field Warehouse 10534
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8789
97 Fishbone Diagram 14627
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27068
99 Flow Through Distribution 12330
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8197
101 FOB Destination 13056
102 Forward buying 30196
103 Freight Charge 10424
104 Freight Consolidation 7542
105 Gantt Chart 8303
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11751
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29613
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12700
109 Hub 23459
110 Idle Time 8083
111 Import/Export License 8737
112 In Bond Shipment 13981
113 Inbound Logistics 13613
114 Interstate System 11023
115 Inventory Costs 53709
116 Inventory in Transit 16556
117 Inventory Management 54867
118 Inventory Planning System 9887
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22325
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42824
121 JIT 2 18459
122 Job Production 27751
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9162
124 Kanban Squares 6855
125 Laid-Down Cost 10209
126 Lean Office 6140
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10868
128 Lee's Notation 8581
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14264
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37330
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9293
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7544
133 Logistics Channel 22937
134 Logistics Costs 26709
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6702
136 Manifest 10558
137 Marks and Numbers 12629
138 Material Planning 35144
139 Materials Management 26394
140 Milk Run 43142
141 Mini Land Bridge 14436
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9585
143 Modal Split 15453
144 Movement of Goods 19507
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31693
146 North West Corner Method 16882
147 Numeric Distribution 14249
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28584
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48493
150 Operational Efficiency 9963
151 Operational Objectives 13373
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18136
153 Operational Sustainability 28063
154 Operations Management 20842
155 Order Cancellation 10850
156 Order Cycle 18465
157 Order Cycle Time 23542
158 Order Fill Rate 34058
159 Order Fulfillment 6488
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10338
161 Parts Standardization 9339
162 PDCA Cycle 8068
163 Peak Load Pricing 13385
164 Perfect Order 13263
165 Physical Distribution 24974
166 Pick List 9861
167 Pipeline inventory 42400
168 Postponement 15310
169 Process Bottleneck 6318
170 Process Checklist Template 6944
 
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