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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 44201
62 Date Code 18259
63 Days of Supply 19859
64 Dead on Arrival 9341
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7326
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8127
67 Detective Control 8926
68 Devanning 14225
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10981
70 Dispatching 24552
71 Distributed Inventory 8372
72 Distribution Channel Management 34789
73 Distribution Metrics 9134
74 Distribution Planning 24224
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15238
76 Double Marginalization 52779
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22402
78 Dual 5453
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20630
80 Echelon Inventory 26233
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38292
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49781
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7631
84 Efficient Frontier 25512
85 Engineer-to-Order 31778
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16551
87 Erlang B Formula 9362
88 ETD 8344
89 Ex Works 7848
90 Exception Rate 13510
91 Exponential smoothing 9842
92 External Growth 10093
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9534
94 Field Services 7753
95 Field Warehouse 10531
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8788
97 Fishbone Diagram 14626
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27067
99 Flow Through Distribution 12330
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8197
101 FOB Destination 13055
102 Forward buying 30194
103 Freight Charge 10423
104 Freight Consolidation 7541
105 Gantt Chart 8302
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11749
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29611
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12700
109 Hub 23459
110 Idle Time 8082
111 Import/Export License 8736
112 In Bond Shipment 13980
113 Inbound Logistics 13610
114 Interstate System 11023
115 Inventory Costs 53706
116 Inventory in Transit 16555
117 Inventory Management 54862
118 Inventory Planning System 9887
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22323
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42819
121 JIT 2 18458
122 Job Production 27747
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9162
124 Kanban Squares 6854
125 Laid-Down Cost 10208
126 Lean Office 6138
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10867
128 Lee's Notation 8580
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14262
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37327
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9292
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7543
133 Logistics Channel 22936
134 Logistics Costs 26707
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6702
136 Manifest 10558
137 Marks and Numbers 12628
138 Material Planning 35141
139 Materials Management 26392
140 Milk Run 43141
141 Mini Land Bridge 14436
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9584
143 Modal Split 15453
144 Movement of Goods 19505
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31692
146 North West Corner Method 16882
147 Numeric Distribution 14248
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28582
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48491
150 Operational Efficiency 9961
151 Operational Objectives 13371
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18135
153 Operational Sustainability 28063
154 Operations Management 20841
155 Order Cancellation 10849
156 Order Cycle 18465
157 Order Cycle Time 23540
158 Order Fill Rate 34057
159 Order Fulfillment 6488
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10338
 
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