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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 44304
62 Date Code 18338
63 Days of Supply 19918
64 Dead on Arrival 9403
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7357
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8174
67 Detective Control 8967
68 Devanning 14273
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11026
70 Dispatching 24638
71 Distributed Inventory 8410
72 Distribution Channel Management 34931
73 Distribution Metrics 9209
74 Distribution Planning 24275
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15306
76 Double Marginalization 52864
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22466
78 Dual 5480
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20684
80 Echelon Inventory 26282
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38335
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49923
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7669
84 Efficient Frontier 25588
85 Engineer-to-Order 31852
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16635
87 Erlang B Formula 9402
88 ETD 8377
89 Ex Works 7879
90 Exception Rate 13569
91 Exponential smoothing 9872
92 External Growth 10145
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9574
94 Field Services 7782
95 Field Warehouse 10682
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8860
97 Fishbone Diagram 14677
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27167
99 Flow Through Distribution 12380
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8240
101 FOB Destination 13120
102 Forward buying 30294
103 Freight Charge 10461
104 Freight Consolidation 7581
105 Gantt Chart 8334
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11802
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29669
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12753
109 Hub 23526
110 Idle Time 8120
111 Import/Export License 8783
112 In Bond Shipment 14039
113 Inbound Logistics 13659
114 Interstate System 11068
115 Inventory Costs 53859
116 Inventory in Transit 16607
117 Inventory Management 55005
118 Inventory Planning System 9920
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22382
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43095
121 JIT 2 18503
122 Job Production 27927
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9198
124 Kanban Squares 6894
125 Laid-Down Cost 10282
126 Lean Office 6179
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10892
128 Lee's Notation 8618
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14338
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37441
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9348
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7571
133 Logistics Channel 22984
134 Logistics Costs 26764
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6722
136 Manifest 10607
137 Marks and Numbers 12697
138 Material Planning 35237
139 Materials Management 26459
140 Milk Run 43233
141 Mini Land Bridge 14481
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9643
143 Modal Split 15504
144 Movement of Goods 19564
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31802
146 North West Corner Method 16913
147 Numeric Distribution 14305
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28646
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48607
150 Operational Efficiency 9999
151 Operational Objectives 13419
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18173
153 Operational Sustainability 28163
154 Operations Management 20956
155 Order Cancellation 10901
156 Order Cycle 18514
157 Order Cycle Time 23590
158 Order Fill Rate 34129
159 Order Fulfillment 6520
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10388
 
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