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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 43211
62 Date Code 17686
63 Days of Supply 19422
64 Dead on Arrival 8887
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7055
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7821
67 Detective Control 8670
68 Devanning 13955
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10561
70 Dispatching 23556
71 Distributed Inventory 8147
72 Distribution Channel Management 33969
73 Distribution Metrics 8667
74 Distribution Planning 23852
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14807
76 Double Marginalization 52126
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21957
78 Dual 5231
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20277
80 Echelon Inventory 25827
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37916
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48751
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7381
84 Efficient Frontier 24908
85 Engineer-to-Order 31205
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15882
87 Erlang B Formula 9056
88 ETD 8059
89 Ex Works 7655
90 Exception Rate 13103
91 Exponential smoothing 9585
92 External Growth 9793
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9181
94 Field Services 7568
95 Field Warehouse 9653
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8389
97 Fishbone Diagram 14277
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26470
99 Flow Through Distribution 12009
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7891
101 FOB Destination 12644
102 Forward buying 29675
103 Freight Charge 10070
104 Freight Consolidation 7295
105 Gantt Chart 8091
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11370
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29128
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12402
109 Hub 22999
110 Idle Time 7841
111 Import/Export License 8453
112 In Bond Shipment 13576
113 Inbound Logistics 13173
114 Interstate System 10760
115 Inventory Costs 52644
116 Inventory in Transit 16053
117 Inventory Management 53753
118 Inventory Planning System 9552
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21862
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41225
121 JIT 2 18185
122 Job Production 26514
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8730
124 Kanban Squares 6591
125 Laid-Down Cost 9869
126 Lean Office 5778
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10718
128 Lee's Notation 8331
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13772
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36198
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8932
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7224
133 Logistics Channel 22523
134 Logistics Costs 26240
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6520
136 Manifest 10201
137 Marks and Numbers 12233
138 Material Planning 34512
139 Materials Management 25992
140 Milk Run 42348
141 Mini Land Bridge 14098
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9144
143 Modal Split 14925
144 Movement of Goods 19085
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31017
146 North West Corner Method 16622
147 Numeric Distribution 13808
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28103
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47792
150 Operational Efficiency 9651
151 Operational Objectives 13087
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17915
153 Operational Sustainability 27431
154 Operations Management 19788
155 Order Cancellation 10377
156 Order Cycle 18135
157 Order Cycle Time 23146
158 Order Fill Rate 33575
159 Order Fulfillment 6261
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10017
 
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