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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 43959
62 Date Code 18105
63 Days of Supply 19737
64 Dead on Arrival 9152
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7249
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8043
67 Detective Control 8853
68 Devanning 14155
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10799
70 Dispatching 24316
71 Distributed Inventory 8297
72 Distribution Channel Management 34543
73 Distribution Metrics 9016
74 Distribution Planning 24116
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15120
76 Double Marginalization 52527
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22210
78 Dual 5394
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20524
80 Echelon Inventory 26090
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38180
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49475
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7558
84 Efficient Frontier 25346
85 Engineer-to-Order 31616
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16302
87 Erlang B Formula 9285
88 ETD 8269
89 Ex Works 7789
90 Exception Rate 13400
91 Exponential smoothing 9771
92 External Growth 10000
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9365
94 Field Services 7700
95 Field Warehouse 10139
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8685
97 Fishbone Diagram 14531
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26885
99 Flow Through Distribution 12242
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8104
101 FOB Destination 12951
102 Forward buying 29976
103 Freight Charge 10262
104 Freight Consolidation 7475
105 Gantt Chart 8239
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11649
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29467
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12613
109 Hub 23320
110 Idle Time 8005
111 Import/Export License 8652
112 In Bond Shipment 13842
113 Inbound Logistics 13486
114 Interstate System 10940
115 Inventory Costs 53375
116 Inventory in Transit 16350
117 Inventory Management 54510
118 Inventory Planning System 9730
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22207
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42364
121 JIT 2 18376
122 Job Production 27373
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8983
124 Kanban Squares 6779
125 Laid-Down Cost 10086
126 Lean Office 5969
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10824
128 Lee's Notation 8514
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14119
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37006
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9178
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7394
133 Logistics Channel 22810
134 Logistics Costs 26552
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6640
136 Manifest 10466
137 Marks and Numbers 12528
138 Material Planning 34986
139 Materials Management 26282
140 Milk Run 42955
141 Mini Land Bridge 14348
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9462
143 Modal Split 15331
144 Movement of Goods 19369
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31450
146 North West Corner Method 16807
147 Numeric Distribution 14121
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28445
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48280
150 Operational Efficiency 9882
151 Operational Objectives 13284
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18079
153 Operational Sustainability 27812
154 Operations Management 20518
155 Order Cancellation 10736
156 Order Cycle 18373
157 Order Cycle Time 23431
158 Order Fill Rate 33923
159 Order Fulfillment 6425
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10230
 
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