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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 43391
62 Date Code 17765
63 Days of Supply 19498
64 Dead on Arrival 8948
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7090
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7875
67 Detective Control 8699
68 Devanning 14001
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10615
70 Dispatching 23693
71 Distributed Inventory 8177
72 Distribution Channel Management 34103
73 Distribution Metrics 8739
74 Distribution Planning 23923
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14875
76 Double Marginalization 52248
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22012
78 Dual 5284
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20316
80 Echelon Inventory 25878
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37974
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48924
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7424
84 Efficient Frontier 25009
85 Engineer-to-Order 31288
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15981
87 Erlang B Formula 9117
88 ETD 8103
89 Ex Works 7680
90 Exception Rate 13170
91 Exponential smoothing 9625
92 External Growth 9838
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9222
94 Field Services 7591
95 Field Warehouse 9703
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8459
97 Fishbone Diagram 14328
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26561
99 Flow Through Distribution 12066
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7944
101 FOB Destination 12701
102 Forward buying 29746
103 Freight Charge 10114
104 Freight Consolidation 7341
105 Gantt Chart 8123
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11452
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29213
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12443
109 Hub 23076
110 Idle Time 7877
111 Import/Export License 8499
112 In Bond Shipment 13636
113 Inbound Logistics 13240
114 Interstate System 10788
115 Inventory Costs 52822
116 Inventory in Transit 16121
117 Inventory Management 53913
118 Inventory Planning System 9599
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21959
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41492
121 JIT 2 18228
122 Job Production 26726
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8786
124 Kanban Squares 6637
125 Laid-Down Cost 9908
126 Lean Office 5819
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10751
128 Lee's Notation 8373
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13857
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36356
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8976
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7285
133 Logistics Channel 22587
134 Logistics Costs 26310
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6550
136 Manifest 10260
137 Marks and Numbers 12274
138 Material Planning 34613
139 Materials Management 26048
140 Milk Run 42501
141 Mini Land Bridge 14155
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9224
143 Modal Split 15014
144 Movement of Goods 19150
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31110
146 North West Corner Method 16660
147 Numeric Distribution 13876
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28173
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47893
150 Operational Efficiency 9709
151 Operational Objectives 13129
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17947
153 Operational Sustainability 27529
154 Operations Management 19953
155 Order Cancellation 10446
156 Order Cycle 18188
157 Order Cycle Time 23219
158 Order Fill Rate 33664
159 Order Fulfillment 6300
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10054
 
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