Supply Chain Acronyms
OOPS
What is Out of Process Sourcing?
sqrt( (2xDxK) / (IxC) )
What is economic order quantity?
Safety stock
What is an extra quantity of an item kept in inventory to protect against stockouts caused by unexpected increases in demand or delays in supply
LPA
What is the toughest job you'll ever love?
A piece part within a purchase part
What is a P00 part?
DDP
What is delivered duty paid?
50% / 75% / 133%
What is going on with tariffs???
PFEP workbook
What helps evaluate TCO for NSI's or PFEP changes (and will crash your computer)?
Buried, and hole is getting deeper
What is our email inbox while on vacation?
Number one oxygen production site in office
What is Erica's desk?
SIOP
What is Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning?
CoGS / avg inventory
What is inventory turns?
Time horizon after the "frozen period" and before the "liquid period," where some flexibility is allowed in the production plan, but changes require negotiation and consideration of impacts on capacity and materials
What is the slushy period?
Highly flexible planning system
What is MAMM (not)? I mean, who needs make and buy at the same time???
When empty, produces tribal unrest
What is Mandy's candy bowl?
WTF
What is Where's The Food? (first Tuesday carry-in??)
14,000
What is number of steps Neelika takes every day to the south dock?
Use of containers and standardized equipment across multiple transportation types
What is intermodal?
Erik Kiger
Who is LJ's assistnant?
State that is the outer radius for sounds emanating from the OOPS personnel cubicle.
What is Montana?
FIMP
What is Firm , In process, Material acquisition, Planning horizon
1:3,000,000 or .000000033
What is the probability of identical twins within triplets?
Phenomenon where orders to suppliers tend to have a larger variability than sales to buyers, which results in an amplified demand variability upstream
What is bullwhip effect?
Vines, river otters, rust and various nesting birds
What are things found on radiators stored outside?
Number 1 thing no one wants in SC planning staff meeting
What is win a s/c planning staff game?