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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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51 Container Freight Station 8661
52 Continuous Replenishment 16883
53 Continuous Replenishment Program 10211
54 Contract Carrier 5936
55 Contract of Affreightment 9559
56 Control Charts 6391
57 Cost Flow 8463
58 Courier Service 12356
59 CPFR 6418
60 Cumulative Lead Time 9898
61 Customer Supplier Relationship 35921
62 Date Code 14583
63 Days of Supply 17259
64 Dead on Arrival 6932
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 5751
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 6143
67 Detective Control 6962
68 Devanning 12244
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 8386
70 Dispatching 19218
71 Distributed Inventory 6821
72 Distribution Channel Management 28409
73 Distribution Metrics 6351
74 Distribution Planning 21523
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 12449
76 Double Marginalization 48037
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 19859
78 Dual 3887
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 18405
80 Echelon Inventory 23894
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 34811
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 42444
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 5897
84 Efficient Frontier 21498
85 Engineer-to-Order 27585
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 13394
87 Erlang B Formula 7210
88 ETD 6467
89 Ex Works 6209
90 Exception Rate 10394
91 Exponential smoothing 8056
92 External Growth 8166
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 7584
94 Field Services 6198
95 Field Warehouse 7867
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 5531
97 Fishbone Diagram 12434
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 22261
99 Flow Through Distribution 10160
100 FOB (Free On Board) 6184
101 FOB Destination 10114
102 Forward buying 27103
103 Freight Charge 8784
104 Freight Consolidation 5895
105 Gantt Chart 6947
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 9123
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 26140
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 10819
109 Hub 20479
110 Idle Time 6521
111 Import/Export License 6753
112 In Bond Shipment 11608
113 Inbound Logistics 11393
114 Interstate System 9437
115 Inventory Costs 45472
116 Inventory in Transit 13386
117 Inventory Management 45731
118 Inventory Planning System 7624
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 19249
120 JIT (Just In Time) 32246
121 JIT 2 16766
122 Job Production 19506
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 7198
124 Kanban Squares 5341
125 Laid-Down Cost 8175
126 Lean Office 4763
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 9751
128 Lee's Notation 6571
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 11004
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 32169
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 7087
132 Linear and Logistics Model 5940
133 Logistics Channel 20135
134 Logistics Costs 23666
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 5360
136 Manifest 8107
137 Marks and Numbers 9957
138 Material Planning 29109
139 Materials Management 23058
140 Milk Run 37126
141 Mini Land Bridge 12451
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 7786
143 Modal Split 12601
144 Movement of Goods 15953
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 27575
146 North West Corner Method 15165
147 Numeric Distribution 11126
148 One Level Distribution Channel 25295
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 44020
150 Operational Efficiency 8287
 
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