1. Business Concepts
  2. Operations and Supply Chain

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.

Title Filter 
# Name Hits
41 Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time 11969
42 Certified Supplier 8875
43 Channel Effectiveness 8836
44 Co-Destiny 9148
45 Co-managed Inventory 12314
46 Co-Packers 11638
47 Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) 6732
48 Computer-Based Training 7581
49 Consular Invoice 19515
50 Container Depot 10478
51 Container Freight Station 10201
52 Continuous Replenishment 19324
53 Continuous Replenishment Program 11935
54 Contract Carrier 7254
55 Contract of Affreightment 11287
56 Control Charts 7852
57 Cost Flow 10153
58 Courier Service 15041
59 CPFR 8100
60 Cumulative Lead Time 11645
61 Customer Supplier Relationship 43747
62 Date Code 17988
63 Days of Supply 19652
64 Dead on Arrival 9071
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7184
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7978
67 Detective Control 8784
68 Devanning 14096
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10723
70 Dispatching 24062
71 Distributed Inventory 8248
72 Distribution Channel Management 34389
73 Distribution Metrics 8906
74 Distribution Planning 24038
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15019
76 Double Marginalization 52405
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22133
78 Dual 5351
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20439
80 Echelon Inventory 25981
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38097
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49257
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7503
84 Efficient Frontier 25217
85 Engineer-to-Order 31495
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16172
87 Erlang B Formula 9218
88 ETD 8200
89 Ex Works 7743
90 Exception Rate 13303
91 Exponential smoothing 9722
92 External Growth 9931
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9308
94 Field Services 7653
95 Field Warehouse 9811
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8597
97 Fishbone Diagram 14459
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26766
99 Flow Through Distribution 12165
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8040
101 FOB Destination 12864
102 Forward buying 29881
103 Freight Charge 10205
104 Freight Consolidation 7419
105 Gantt Chart 8197
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11571
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29364
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12542
109 Hub 23222
110 Idle Time 7956
111 Import/Export License 8589
112 In Bond Shipment 13753
113 Inbound Logistics 13390
114 Interstate System 10875
115 Inventory Costs 53167
116 Inventory in Transit 16269
117 Inventory Management 54288
118 Inventory Planning System 9681
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22108
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42011
121 JIT 2 18316
122 Job Production 27124
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8914
124 Kanban Squares 6734
125 Laid-Down Cost 10009
126 Lean Office 5917
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10789
128 Lee's Notation 8458
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14017
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36741
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9090
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7351
133 Logistics Channel 22728
134 Logistics Costs 26455
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6603
136 Manifest 10391
137 Marks and Numbers 12422
138 Material Planning 34867
139 Materials Management 26197
140 Milk Run 42797
 
Page 1 of 3