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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 43249
62 Date Code 17704
63 Days of Supply 19437
64 Dead on Arrival 8902
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7065
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7833
67 Detective Control 8677
68 Devanning 13968
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10573
70 Dispatching 23584
71 Distributed Inventory 8153
72 Distribution Channel Management 33995
73 Distribution Metrics 8683
74 Distribution Planning 23877
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14822
76 Double Marginalization 52149
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21969
78 Dual 5243
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20282
80 Echelon Inventory 25840
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37930
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48794
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7392
84 Efficient Frontier 24927
85 Engineer-to-Order 31223
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15908
87 Erlang B Formula 9071
88 ETD 8069
89 Ex Works 7662
90 Exception Rate 13117
91 Exponential smoothing 9594
92 External Growth 9809
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9190
94 Field Services 7574
95 Field Warehouse 9669
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8400
97 Fishbone Diagram 14286
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26488
99 Flow Through Distribution 12022
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7903
101 FOB Destination 12658
102 Forward buying 29684
103 Freight Charge 10081
104 Freight Consolidation 7301
105 Gantt Chart 8100
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11386
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29143
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12407
109 Hub 23018
110 Idle Time 7851
111 Import/Export License 8462
112 In Bond Shipment 13587
113 Inbound Logistics 13189
114 Interstate System 10766
115 Inventory Costs 52687
116 Inventory in Transit 16067
117 Inventory Management 53786
118 Inventory Planning System 9561
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21883
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41285
121 JIT 2 18194
122 Job Production 26558
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8741
124 Kanban Squares 6601
125 Laid-Down Cost 9877
126 Lean Office 5787
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10724
128 Lee's Notation 8337
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13791
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36227
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8939
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7240
133 Logistics Channel 22538
134 Logistics Costs 26258
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6524
136 Manifest 10216
137 Marks and Numbers 12245
138 Material Planning 34528
139 Materials Management 26005
140 Milk Run 42387
141 Mini Land Bridge 14110
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9163
143 Modal Split 14951
144 Movement of Goods 19100
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31036
146 North West Corner Method 16630
147 Numeric Distribution 13819
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28118
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47818
150 Operational Efficiency 9661
151 Operational Objectives 13093
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17922
153 Operational Sustainability 27452
154 Operations Management 19823
155 Order Cancellation 10390
156 Order Cycle 18153
157 Order Cycle Time 23165
158 Order Fill Rate 33600
159 Order Fulfillment 6272
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10028
 
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