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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 44351
62 Date Code 18368
63 Days of Supply 19938
64 Dead on Arrival 9421
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7375
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8192
67 Detective Control 8982
68 Devanning 14290
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11049
70 Dispatching 24680
71 Distributed Inventory 8425
72 Distribution Channel Management 34984
73 Distribution Metrics 9234
74 Distribution Planning 24299
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15329
76 Double Marginalization 52895
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22483
78 Dual 5487
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20703
80 Echelon Inventory 26303
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38359
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49976
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7683
84 Efficient Frontier 25615
85 Engineer-to-Order 31874
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16668
87 Erlang B Formula 9417
88 ETD 8392
89 Ex Works 7886
90 Exception Rate 13591
91 Exponential smoothing 9890
92 External Growth 10166
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9587
94 Field Services 7791
95 Field Warehouse 10743
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8880
97 Fishbone Diagram 14690
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27202
99 Flow Through Distribution 12400
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8259
101 FOB Destination 13139
102 Forward buying 30326
103 Freight Charge 10481
104 Freight Consolidation 7591
105 Gantt Chart 8343
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11824
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29691
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12770
109 Hub 23549
110 Idle Time 8134
111 Import/Export License 8801
112 In Bond Shipment 14065
113 Inbound Logistics 13679
114 Interstate System 11084
115 Inventory Costs 53917
116 Inventory in Transit 16630
117 Inventory Management 55057
118 Inventory Planning System 9937
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22408
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43153
121 JIT 2 18516
122 Job Production 28002
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9213
124 Kanban Squares 6914
125 Laid-Down Cost 10298
126 Lean Office 6196
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10898
128 Lee's Notation 8627
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14365
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37482
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9367
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7579
133 Logistics Channel 23008
134 Logistics Costs 26798
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6733
136 Manifest 10630
137 Marks and Numbers 12718
138 Material Planning 35264
139 Materials Management 26480
140 Milk Run 43270
141 Mini Land Bridge 14498
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9663
143 Modal Split 15532
144 Movement of Goods 19589
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31830
146 North West Corner Method 16930
147 Numeric Distribution 14325
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28671
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48658
150 Operational Efficiency 10012
151 Operational Objectives 13441
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18182
153 Operational Sustainability 28191
154 Operations Management 20983
155 Order Cancellation 10919
156 Order Cycle 18527
157 Order Cycle Time 23614
158 Order Fill Rate 34147
159 Order Fulfillment 6533
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10409
 
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