1. Business Concepts
    2. ›
  2. Operations and Supply Chain

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.

Title Filter 
# Name Hits
61 Customer Supplier Relationship 43378
62 Date Code 17761
63 Days of Supply 19495
64 Dead on Arrival 8944
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7089
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7873
67 Detective Control 8698
68 Devanning 13999
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10610
70 Dispatching 23682
71 Distributed Inventory 8174
72 Distribution Channel Management 34096
73 Distribution Metrics 8736
74 Distribution Planning 23919
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14871
76 Double Marginalization 52238
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22008
78 Dual 5278
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20313
80 Echelon Inventory 25877
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37971
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48917
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7420
84 Efficient Frontier 25001
85 Engineer-to-Order 31284
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15979
87 Erlang B Formula 9112
88 ETD 8100
89 Ex Works 7679
90 Exception Rate 13165
91 Exponential smoothing 9623
92 External Growth 9835
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9221
94 Field Services 7590
95 Field Warehouse 9700
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8455
97 Fishbone Diagram 14320
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26555
99 Flow Through Distribution 12063
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7941
101 FOB Destination 12699
102 Forward buying 29743
103 Freight Charge 10111
104 Freight Consolidation 7339
105 Gantt Chart 8122
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11443
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29208
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12441
109 Hub 23073
110 Idle Time 7875
111 Import/Export License 8496
112 In Bond Shipment 13632
113 Inbound Logistics 13236
114 Interstate System 10787
115 Inventory Costs 52807
116 Inventory in Transit 16118
117 Inventory Management 53905
118 Inventory Planning System 9598
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21951
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41476
121 JIT 2 18225
122 Job Production 26711
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8780
124 Kanban Squares 6636
125 Laid-Down Cost 9904
126 Lean Office 5815
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10748
128 Lee's Notation 8370
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13852
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36349
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8972
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7283
133 Logistics Channel 22582
134 Logistics Costs 26307
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6549
136 Manifest 10254
137 Marks and Numbers 12273
138 Material Planning 34606
139 Materials Management 26044
140 Milk Run 42492
141 Mini Land Bridge 14150
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9218
143 Modal Split 15006
144 Movement of Goods 19148
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31100
146 North West Corner Method 16660
147 Numeric Distribution 13873
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28167
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47887
150 Operational Efficiency 9702
151 Operational Objectives 13128
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17946
153 Operational Sustainability 27526
154 Operations Management 19940
155 Order Cancellation 10443
156 Order Cycle 18183
157 Order Cycle Time 23215
158 Order Fill Rate 33660
159 Order Fulfillment 6298
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10054
 
Page 1 of 3