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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 35649
62 Date Code 14502
63 Days of Supply 17216
64 Dead on Arrival 6896
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 5726
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 6112
67 Detective Control 6914
68 Devanning 12213
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 8339
70 Dispatching 19126
71 Distributed Inventory 6799
72 Distribution Channel Management 28203
73 Distribution Metrics 6283
74 Distribution Planning 21443
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 12382
76 Double Marginalization 47904
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 19829
78 Dual 3870
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 18358
80 Echelon Inventory 23843
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 34722
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 42302
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 5869
84 Efficient Frontier 21406
85 Engineer-to-Order 27475
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 13328
87 Erlang B Formula 7184
88 ETD 6440
89 Ex Works 6174
90 Exception Rate 10326
91 Exponential smoothing 8018
92 External Growth 8137
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 7556
94 Field Services 6156
95 Field Warehouse 7822
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 5439
97 Fishbone Diagram 12385
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 22099
99 Flow Through Distribution 10130
100 FOB (Free On Board) 6158
101 FOB Destination 10047
102 Forward buying 27035
103 Freight Charge 8758
104 Freight Consolidation 5872
105 Gantt Chart 6926
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 9070
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 26078
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 10797
109 Hub 20421
110 Idle Time 6484
111 Import/Export License 6712
112 In Bond Shipment 11568
113 Inbound Logistics 11378
114 Interstate System 9414
115 Inventory Costs 45199
116 Inventory in Transit 13356
117 Inventory Management 45451
118 Inventory Planning System 7605
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 19219
120 JIT (Just In Time) 31991
121 JIT 2 16706
122 Job Production 19246
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 7170
124 Kanban Squares 5321
125 Laid-Down Cost 8149
126 Lean Office 4755
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 9727
128 Lee's Notation 6491
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 10917
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 32113
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 7056
132 Linear and Logistics Model 5923
133 Logistics Channel 20051
134 Logistics Costs 23607
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 5342
136 Manifest 8071
137 Marks and Numbers 9878
138 Material Planning 28899
139 Materials Management 22959
140 Milk Run 37025
141 Mini Land Bridge 12409
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 7759
143 Modal Split 12555
144 Movement of Goods 15796
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 27508
146 North West Corner Method 15110
147 Numeric Distribution 11036
148 One Level Distribution Channel 25203
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 43912
150 Operational Efficiency 8280
151 Operational Objectives 11514
152 Operational Performance Measurements 16350
153 Operational Sustainability 24383
154 Operations Management 14020
155 Order Cancellation 8302
156 Order Cycle 16597
157 Order Cycle Time 21073
158 Order Fill Rate 31324
159 Order Fulfillment 5051
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 8655
 
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