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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 43206
62 Date Code 17684
63 Days of Supply 19421
64 Dead on Arrival 8887
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7055
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7821
67 Detective Control 8668
68 Devanning 13955
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10560
70 Dispatching 23549
71 Distributed Inventory 8145
72 Distribution Channel Management 33964
73 Distribution Metrics 8664
74 Distribution Planning 23850
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14807
76 Double Marginalization 52123
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21955
78 Dual 5230
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20277
80 Echelon Inventory 25826
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37916
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48748
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7380
84 Efficient Frontier 24905
85 Engineer-to-Order 31203
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15879
87 Erlang B Formula 9053
88 ETD 8058
89 Ex Works 7655
90 Exception Rate 13101
91 Exponential smoothing 9584
92 External Growth 9791
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9180
94 Field Services 7568
95 Field Warehouse 9653
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8387
97 Fishbone Diagram 14277
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26468
99 Flow Through Distribution 12007
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7891
101 FOB Destination 12642
102 Forward buying 29672
103 Freight Charge 10069
104 Freight Consolidation 7291
105 Gantt Chart 8090
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11368
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29125
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12402
109 Hub 22999
110 Idle Time 7839
111 Import/Export License 8451
112 In Bond Shipment 13572
113 Inbound Logistics 13173
114 Interstate System 10759
115 Inventory Costs 52639
116 Inventory in Transit 16052
117 Inventory Management 53749
118 Inventory Planning System 9552
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21861
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41215
121 JIT 2 18185
122 Job Production 26508
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8729
124 Kanban Squares 6590
125 Laid-Down Cost 9868
126 Lean Office 5776
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10717
128 Lee's Notation 8328
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13770
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36194
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8929
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7223
133 Logistics Channel 22522
134 Logistics Costs 26236
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6520
136 Manifest 10200
137 Marks and Numbers 12231
138 Material Planning 34509
139 Materials Management 25989
140 Milk Run 42346
141 Mini Land Bridge 14096
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9143
143 Modal Split 14922
144 Movement of Goods 19081
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31015
146 North West Corner Method 16621
147 Numeric Distribution 13807
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28102
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47791
150 Operational Efficiency 9649
151 Operational Objectives 13085
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17914
153 Operational Sustainability 27428
154 Operations Management 19782
155 Order Cancellation 10374
156 Order Cycle 18133
157 Order Cycle Time 23145
158 Order Fill Rate 33573
159 Order Fulfillment 6260
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10017
 
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