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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 43808
62 Date Code 18029
63 Days of Supply 19674
64 Dead on Arrival 9092
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7208
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7994
67 Detective Control 8806
68 Devanning 14115
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10744
70 Dispatching 24156
71 Distributed Inventory 8260
72 Distribution Channel Management 34434
73 Distribution Metrics 8938
74 Distribution Planning 24060
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15054
76 Double Marginalization 52440
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22156
78 Dual 5368
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20463
80 Echelon Inventory 26013
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38123
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49328
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7517
84 Efficient Frontier 25259
85 Engineer-to-Order 31529
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16216
87 Erlang B Formula 9238
88 ETD 8221
89 Ex Works 7758
90 Exception Rate 13326
91 Exponential smoothing 9736
92 External Growth 9950
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9329
94 Field Services 7667
95 Field Warehouse 9876
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8624
97 Fishbone Diagram 14487
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26804
99 Flow Through Distribution 12190
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8058
101 FOB Destination 12893
102 Forward buying 29905
103 Freight Charge 10226
104 Freight Consolidation 7437
105 Gantt Chart 8210
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11595
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29388
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12564
109 Hub 23251
110 Idle Time 7972
111 Import/Export License 8609
112 In Bond Shipment 13775
113 Inbound Logistics 13424
114 Interstate System 10894
115 Inventory Costs 53227
116 Inventory in Transit 16292
117 Inventory Management 54360
118 Inventory Planning System 9698
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22134
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42121
121 JIT 2 18331
122 Job Production 27202
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8933
124 Kanban Squares 6746
125 Laid-Down Cost 10033
126 Lean Office 5936
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10798
128 Lee's Notation 8472
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14046
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36831
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9115
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7365
133 Logistics Channel 22750
134 Logistics Costs 26485
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6616
136 Manifest 10414
137 Marks and Numbers 12450
138 Material Planning 34906
139 Materials Management 26219
140 Milk Run 42842
141 Mini Land Bridge 14294
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9392
143 Modal Split 15254
144 Movement of Goods 19306
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31354
146 North West Corner Method 16769
147 Numeric Distribution 14037
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28375
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48167
150 Operational Efficiency 9838
151 Operational Objectives 13241
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18043
153 Operational Sustainability 27720
154 Operations Management 20380
155 Order Cancellation 10670
156 Order Cycle 18328
157 Order Cycle Time 23386
158 Order Fill Rate 33857
159 Order Fulfillment 6389
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10177
 
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