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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 43742
62 Date Code 17985
63 Days of Supply 19650
64 Dead on Arrival 9071
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7183
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7977
67 Detective Control 8784
68 Devanning 14095
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10723
70 Dispatching 24060
71 Distributed Inventory 8247
72 Distribution Channel Management 34387
73 Distribution Metrics 8906
74 Distribution Planning 24038
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15016
76 Double Marginalization 52405
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22132
78 Dual 5351
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20436
80 Echelon Inventory 25981
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38093
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49252
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7501
84 Efficient Frontier 25217
85 Engineer-to-Order 31493
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16170
87 Erlang B Formula 9215
88 ETD 8198
89 Ex Works 7743
90 Exception Rate 13302
91 Exponential smoothing 9722
92 External Growth 9928
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9308
94 Field Services 7653
95 Field Warehouse 9810
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8594
97 Fishbone Diagram 14458
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26761
99 Flow Through Distribution 12165
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8040
101 FOB Destination 12863
102 Forward buying 29878
103 Freight Charge 10205
104 Freight Consolidation 7419
105 Gantt Chart 8196
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11569
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29361
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12540
109 Hub 23221
110 Idle Time 7955
111 Import/Export License 8589
112 In Bond Shipment 13750
113 Inbound Logistics 13388
114 Interstate System 10872
115 Inventory Costs 53163
116 Inventory in Transit 16266
117 Inventory Management 54278
118 Inventory Planning System 9678
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22104
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42000
121 JIT 2 18316
122 Job Production 27116
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8912
124 Kanban Squares 6733
125 Laid-Down Cost 10006
126 Lean Office 5915
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10789
128 Lee's Notation 8457
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14015
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36734
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9086
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7349
133 Logistics Channel 22727
134 Logistics Costs 26452
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6602
136 Manifest 10391
137 Marks and Numbers 12421
138 Material Planning 34860
139 Materials Management 26195
140 Milk Run 42794
141 Mini Land Bridge 14268
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9364
143 Modal Split 15206
144 Movement of Goods 19275
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31315
146 North West Corner Method 16744
147 Numeric Distribution 14003
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28333
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48121
150 Operational Efficiency 9817
151 Operational Objectives 13222
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18020
153 Operational Sustainability 27681
154 Operations Management 20298
155 Order Cancellation 10631
156 Order Cycle 18297
157 Order Cycle Time 23358
158 Order Fill Rate 33818
159 Order Fulfillment 6374
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10152
 
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