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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 8376
72 Distribution Channel Management 34804
73 Distribution Metrics 9146
74 Distribution Planning 24228
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15243
76 Double Marginalization 52787
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22407
78 Dual 5459
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20638
80 Echelon Inventory 26238
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38296
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49788
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7635
84 Efficient Frontier 25522
85 Engineer-to-Order 31787
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16560
87 Erlang B Formula 9367
88 ETD 8346
89 Ex Works 7849
90 Exception Rate 13517
91 Exponential smoothing 9845
92 External Growth 10099
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9535
94 Field Services 7757
95 Field Warehouse 10544
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8795
97 Fishbone Diagram 14630
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27077
99 Flow Through Distribution 12336
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8199
101 FOB Destination 13061
102 Forward buying 30208
103 Freight Charge 10429
104 Freight Consolidation 7548
105 Gantt Chart 8307
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11756
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29615
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12712
109 Hub 23464
110 Idle Time 8086
111 Import/Export License 8742
112 In Bond Shipment 13990
113 Inbound Logistics 13616
114 Interstate System 11029
115 Inventory Costs 53725
116 Inventory in Transit 16563
117 Inventory Management 54882
118 Inventory Planning System 9890
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22331
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42840
121 JIT 2 18464
122 Job Production 27764
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9164
124 Kanban Squares 6857
125 Laid-Down Cost 10216
126 Lean Office 6143
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10870
128 Lee's Notation 8582
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14270
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37340
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9302
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7546
133 Logistics Channel 22943
134 Logistics Costs 26712
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6704
136 Manifest 10562
137 Marks and Numbers 12635
138 Material Planning 35158
139 Materials Management 26400
140 Milk Run 43151
141 Mini Land Bridge 14442
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9589
143 Modal Split 15457
144 Movement of Goods 19513
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31703
146 North West Corner Method 16884
147 Numeric Distribution 14253
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28586
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48501
150 Operational Efficiency 9965
151 Operational Objectives 13382
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18138
153 Operational Sustainability 28073
154 Operations Management 20856
155 Order Cancellation 10855
156 Order Cycle 18468
157 Order Cycle Time 23548
158 Order Fill Rate 34063
159 Order Fulfillment 6491
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10340
161 Parts Standardization 9341
162 PDCA Cycle 8069
163 Peak Load Pricing 13386
164 Perfect Order 13268
165 Physical Distribution 24983
166 Pick List 9867
167 Pipeline inventory 42410
168 Postponement 15312
169 Process Bottleneck 6320
170 Process Checklist Template 6948
 
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