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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 43774
62 Date Code 18010
63 Days of Supply 19664
64 Dead on Arrival 9082
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7196
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7983
67 Detective Control 8793
68 Devanning 14108
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10735
70 Dispatching 24096
71 Distributed Inventory 8253
72 Distribution Channel Management 34402
73 Distribution Metrics 8922
74 Distribution Planning 24047
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15033
76 Double Marginalization 52422
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22143
78 Dual 5359
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20448
80 Echelon Inventory 25996
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38111
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49287
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7507
84 Efficient Frontier 25230
85 Engineer-to-Order 31512
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16192
87 Erlang B Formula 9223
88 ETD 8211
89 Ex Works 7748
90 Exception Rate 13316
91 Exponential smoothing 9729
92 External Growth 9940
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9316
94 Field Services 7658
95 Field Warehouse 9840
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8610
97 Fishbone Diagram 14473
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26785
99 Flow Through Distribution 12172
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8044
101 FOB Destination 12875
102 Forward buying 29891
103 Freight Charge 10213
104 Freight Consolidation 7428
105 Gantt Chart 8202
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11581
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29373
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12553
109 Hub 23234
110 Idle Time 7962
111 Import/Export License 8600
112 In Bond Shipment 13759
113 Inbound Logistics 13406
114 Interstate System 10883
115 Inventory Costs 53190
116 Inventory in Transit 16279
117 Inventory Management 54321
118 Inventory Planning System 9685
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22120
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42052
121 JIT 2 18321
122 Job Production 27159
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8923
124 Kanban Squares 6739
125 Laid-Down Cost 10022
126 Lean Office 5923
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10793
128 Lee's Notation 8464
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14032
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36779
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9102
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7355
133 Logistics Channel 22737
134 Logistics Costs 26465
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6611
136 Manifest 10401
137 Marks and Numbers 12434
138 Material Planning 34880
139 Materials Management 26209
140 Milk Run 42818
141 Mini Land Bridge 14280
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9375
143 Modal Split 15232
144 Movement of Goods 19296
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31332
146 North West Corner Method 16760
147 Numeric Distribution 14018
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28352
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48145
150 Operational Efficiency 9828
151 Operational Objectives 13231
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18028
153 Operational Sustainability 27702
154 Operations Management 20332
155 Order Cancellation 10655
156 Order Cycle 18313
157 Order Cycle Time 23374
158 Order Fill Rate 33831
159 Order Fulfillment 6381
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10170
 
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