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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 43438
62 Date Code 17793
63 Days of Supply 19521
64 Dead on Arrival 8966
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7100
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7890
67 Detective Control 8712
68 Devanning 14015
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10629
70 Dispatching 23742
71 Distributed Inventory 8185
72 Distribution Channel Management 34136
73 Distribution Metrics 8761
74 Distribution Planning 23936
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14894
76 Double Marginalization 52273
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22027
78 Dual 5297
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20334
80 Echelon Inventory 25891
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37989
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48982
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7433
84 Efficient Frontier 25041
85 Engineer-to-Order 31316
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16006
87 Erlang B Formula 9133
88 ETD 8112
89 Ex Works 7689
90 Exception Rate 13188
91 Exponential smoothing 9634
92 External Growth 9848
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9233
94 Field Services 7600
95 Field Warehouse 9716
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8480
97 Fishbone Diagram 14350
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26587
99 Flow Through Distribution 12080
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7957
101 FOB Destination 12721
102 Forward buying 29777
103 Freight Charge 10126
104 Freight Consolidation 7353
105 Gantt Chart 8133
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11479
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29229
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12454
109 Hub 23099
110 Idle Time 7890
111 Import/Export License 8511
112 In Bond Shipment 13653
113 Inbound Logistics 13256
114 Interstate System 10798
115 Inventory Costs 52870
116 Inventory in Transit 16140
117 Inventory Management 53958
118 Inventory Planning System 9611
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21982
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41556
121 JIT 2 18247
122 Job Production 26777
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8805
124 Kanban Squares 6654
125 Laid-Down Cost 9918
126 Lean Office 5838
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10759
128 Lee's Notation 8387
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13878
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36414
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8987
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7298
133 Logistics Channel 22605
134 Logistics Costs 26335
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6559
136 Manifest 10278
137 Marks and Numbers 12290
138 Material Planning 34651
139 Materials Management 26064
140 Milk Run 42552
141 Mini Land Bridge 14174
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9245
143 Modal Split 15047
144 Movement of Goods 19171
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31142
146 North West Corner Method 16669
147 Numeric Distribution 13891
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28189
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47932
150 Operational Efficiency 9728
151 Operational Objectives 13142
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17958
153 Operational Sustainability 27553
154 Operations Management 20001
155 Order Cancellation 10468
156 Order Cycle 18199
157 Order Cycle Time 23246
158 Order Fill Rate 33690
159 Order Fulfillment 6315
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10063
 
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