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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 43386
62 Date Code 17765
63 Days of Supply 19497
64 Dead on Arrival 8947
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7089
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7875
67 Detective Control 8699
68 Devanning 14001
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10614
70 Dispatching 23691
71 Distributed Inventory 8175
72 Distribution Channel Management 34103
73 Distribution Metrics 8739
74 Distribution Planning 23922
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14873
76 Double Marginalization 52246
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22012
78 Dual 5281
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20316
80 Echelon Inventory 25878
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37972
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48923
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7423
84 Efficient Frontier 25005
85 Engineer-to-Order 31288
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15981
87 Erlang B Formula 9115
88 ETD 8102
89 Ex Works 7680
90 Exception Rate 13168
91 Exponential smoothing 9625
92 External Growth 9837
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9221
94 Field Services 7591
95 Field Warehouse 9702
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8459
97 Fishbone Diagram 14325
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26560
99 Flow Through Distribution 12066
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7943
101 FOB Destination 12701
102 Forward buying 29745
103 Freight Charge 10113
104 Freight Consolidation 7341
105 Gantt Chart 8123
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11448
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29210
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12443
109 Hub 23075
110 Idle Time 7877
111 Import/Export License 8499
112 In Bond Shipment 13636
113 Inbound Logistics 13240
114 Interstate System 10788
115 Inventory Costs 52819
116 Inventory in Transit 16121
117 Inventory Management 53911
118 Inventory Planning System 9599
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21955
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41488
121 JIT 2 18227
122 Job Production 26723
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8784
124 Kanban Squares 6637
125 Laid-Down Cost 9907
126 Lean Office 5818
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10749
128 Lee's Notation 8373
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13855
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36355
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8974
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7284
133 Logistics Channel 22587
134 Logistics Costs 26308
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6550
136 Manifest 10259
137 Marks and Numbers 12274
138 Material Planning 34613
139 Materials Management 26047
140 Milk Run 42499
141 Mini Land Bridge 14153
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9222
143 Modal Split 15010
144 Movement of Goods 19150
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31107
146 North West Corner Method 16660
147 Numeric Distribution 13876
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28171
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47893
150 Operational Efficiency 9704
151 Operational Objectives 13128
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17946
153 Operational Sustainability 27529
154 Operations Management 19952
155 Order Cancellation 10445
156 Order Cycle 18187
157 Order Cycle Time 23219
158 Order Fill Rate 33663
159 Order Fulfillment 6299
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10054
 
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