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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 43833
62 Date Code 18044
63 Days of Supply 19680
64 Dead on Arrival 9098
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7214
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8001
67 Detective Control 8811
68 Devanning 14120
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10751
70 Dispatching 24179
71 Distributed Inventory 8265
72 Distribution Channel Management 34455
73 Distribution Metrics 8950
74 Distribution Planning 24069
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15063
76 Double Marginalization 52457
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22161
78 Dual 5369
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20472
80 Echelon Inventory 26024
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38131
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49349
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7522
84 Efficient Frontier 25272
85 Engineer-to-Order 31547
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16227
87 Erlang B Formula 9244
88 ETD 8229
89 Ex Works 7763
90 Exception Rate 13337
91 Exponential smoothing 9740
92 External Growth 9955
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9334
94 Field Services 7673
95 Field Warehouse 9903
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8637
97 Fishbone Diagram 14497
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26816
99 Flow Through Distribution 12197
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8064
101 FOB Destination 12903
102 Forward buying 29913
103 Freight Charge 10229
104 Freight Consolidation 7440
105 Gantt Chart 8212
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11602
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29400
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12572
109 Hub 23259
110 Idle Time 7977
111 Import/Export License 8614
112 In Bond Shipment 13781
113 Inbound Logistics 13431
114 Interstate System 10902
115 Inventory Costs 53254
116 Inventory in Transit 16300
117 Inventory Management 54386
118 Inventory Planning System 9700
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22148
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42158
121 JIT 2 18338
122 Job Production 27230
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8941
124 Kanban Squares 6749
125 Laid-Down Cost 10041
126 Lean Office 5939
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8481
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14061
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36852
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9122
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7369
133 Logistics Channel 22757
134 Logistics Costs 26494
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6618
136 Manifest 10423
137 Marks and Numbers 12464
138 Material Planning 34923
139 Materials Management 26226
140 Milk Run 42858
141 Mini Land Bridge 14305
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9399
143 Modal Split 15261
144 Movement of Goods 19319
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31371
146 North West Corner Method 16773
147 Numeric Distribution 14056
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28388
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48182
150 Operational Efficiency 9845
151 Operational Objectives 13246
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18049
153 Operational Sustainability 27735
154 Operations Management 20403
155 Order Cancellation 10678
156 Order Cycle 18333
157 Order Cycle Time 23396
158 Order Fill Rate 33865
159 Order Fulfillment 6394
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10185
 
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