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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 43408
62 Date Code 17776
63 Days of Supply 19508
64 Dead on Arrival 8954
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7092
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7880
67 Detective Control 8704
68 Devanning 14006
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10621
70 Dispatching 23707
71 Distributed Inventory 8181
72 Distribution Channel Management 34116
73 Distribution Metrics 8749
74 Distribution Planning 23929
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14881
76 Double Marginalization 52257
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22018
78 Dual 5292
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20320
80 Echelon Inventory 25880
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37982
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48942
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7427
84 Efficient Frontier 25018
85 Engineer-to-Order 31298
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15989
87 Erlang B Formula 9127
88 ETD 8106
89 Ex Works 7684
90 Exception Rate 13178
91 Exponential smoothing 9629
92 External Growth 9842
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9227
94 Field Services 7597
95 Field Warehouse 9709
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8467
97 Fishbone Diagram 14335
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26570
99 Flow Through Distribution 12075
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7949
101 FOB Destination 12713
102 Forward buying 29755
103 Freight Charge 10120
104 Freight Consolidation 7348
105 Gantt Chart 8128
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11467
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29221
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12447
109 Hub 23085
110 Idle Time 7881
111 Import/Export License 8503
112 In Bond Shipment 13642
113 Inbound Logistics 13245
114 Interstate System 10793
115 Inventory Costs 52833
116 Inventory in Transit 16129
117 Inventory Management 53929
118 Inventory Planning System 9603
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21968
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41516
121 JIT 2 18234
122 Job Production 26743
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8794
124 Kanban Squares 6645
125 Laid-Down Cost 9908
126 Lean Office 5828
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10756
128 Lee's Notation 8377
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13865
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36372
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8981
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7291
133 Logistics Channel 22594
134 Logistics Costs 26318
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6552
136 Manifest 10267
137 Marks and Numbers 12281
138 Material Planning 34627
139 Materials Management 26054
140 Milk Run 42516
141 Mini Land Bridge 14161
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9232
143 Modal Split 15028
144 Movement of Goods 19158
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31122
146 North West Corner Method 16666
147 Numeric Distribution 13881
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28178
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47908
150 Operational Efficiency 9720
151 Operational Objectives 13134
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17952
153 Operational Sustainability 27535
154 Operations Management 19971
155 Order Cancellation 10455
156 Order Cycle 18192
157 Order Cycle Time 23226
158 Order Fill Rate 33675
159 Order Fulfillment 6306
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10058
 
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