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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 44222
62 Date Code 18275
63 Days of Supply 19868
64 Dead on Arrival 9354
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7332
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8139
67 Detective Control 8931
68 Devanning 14237
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10990
70 Dispatching 24573
71 Distributed Inventory 8378
72 Distribution Channel Management 34821
73 Distribution Metrics 9151
74 Distribution Planning 24234
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15254
76 Double Marginalization 52802
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22418
78 Dual 5460
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20640
80 Echelon Inventory 26243
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38299
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49804
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7637
84 Efficient Frontier 25537
85 Engineer-to-Order 31800
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16565
87 Erlang B Formula 9370
88 ETD 8349
89 Ex Works 7855
90 Exception Rate 13523
91 Exponential smoothing 9846
92 External Growth 10107
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9540
94 Field Services 7762
95 Field Warehouse 10566
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8804
97 Fishbone Diagram 14635
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27094
99 Flow Through Distribution 12343
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8202
101 FOB Destination 13065
102 Forward buying 30228
103 Freight Charge 10431
104 Freight Consolidation 7551
105 Gantt Chart 8311
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11761
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29623
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12717
109 Hub 23471
110 Idle Time 8089
111 Import/Export License 8746
112 In Bond Shipment 13997
113 Inbound Logistics 13620
114 Interstate System 11030
115 Inventory Costs 53738
116 Inventory in Transit 16567
117 Inventory Management 54908
118 Inventory Planning System 9893
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22337
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42888
121 JIT 2 18468
122 Job Production 27796
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9166
124 Kanban Squares 6857
125 Laid-Down Cost 10226
126 Lean Office 6144
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10870
128 Lee's Notation 8585
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14278
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37359
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9306
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7547
133 Logistics Channel 22951
134 Logistics Costs 26720
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6706
136 Manifest 10565
137 Marks and Numbers 12642
138 Material Planning 35174
139 Materials Management 26406
140 Milk Run 43160
141 Mini Land Bridge 14444
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9593
143 Modal Split 15464
144 Movement of Goods 19518
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31719
146 North West Corner Method 16888
147 Numeric Distribution 14258
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28595
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48513
150 Operational Efficiency 9969
151 Operational Objectives 13384
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18142
153 Operational Sustainability 28087
154 Operations Management 20879
155 Order Cancellation 10861
156 Order Cycle 18474
157 Order Cycle Time 23551
158 Order Fill Rate 34072
159 Order Fulfillment 6494
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10345
 
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