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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 43511
62 Date Code 17833
63 Days of Supply 19544
64 Dead on Arrival 8991
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7120
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7902
67 Detective Control 8729
68 Devanning 14032
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10648
70 Dispatching 23801
71 Distributed Inventory 8199
72 Distribution Channel Management 34195
73 Distribution Metrics 8795
74 Distribution Planning 23958
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14925
76 Double Marginalization 52301
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22049
78 Dual 5310
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20357
80 Echelon Inventory 25906
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38014
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49045
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7446
84 Efficient Frontier 25074
85 Engineer-to-Order 31352
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16038
87 Erlang B Formula 9148
88 ETD 8126
89 Ex Works 7702
90 Exception Rate 13207
91 Exponential smoothing 9654
92 External Growth 9863
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9249
94 Field Services 7614
95 Field Warehouse 9733
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8506
97 Fishbone Diagram 14373
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26624
99 Flow Through Distribution 12098
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7974
101 FOB Destination 12751
102 Forward buying 29798
103 Freight Charge 10139
104 Freight Consolidation 7366
105 Gantt Chart 8146
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11492
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29248
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12471
109 Hub 23124
110 Idle Time 7902
111 Import/Export License 8527
112 In Bond Shipment 13679
113 Inbound Logistics 13280
114 Interstate System 10812
115 Inventory Costs 52931
116 Inventory in Transit 16169
117 Inventory Management 54015
118 Inventory Planning System 9622
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22013
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41647
121 JIT 2 18260
122 Job Production 26852
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8829
124 Kanban Squares 6672
125 Laid-Down Cost 9932
126 Lean Office 5853
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10764
128 Lee's Notation 8400
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13903
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36487
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9000
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7309
133 Logistics Channel 22621
134 Logistics Costs 26353
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6565
136 Manifest 10303
137 Marks and Numbers 12311
138 Material Planning 34700
139 Materials Management 26085
140 Milk Run 42616
141 Mini Land Bridge 14200
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9273
143 Modal Split 15072
144 Movement of Goods 19193
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31179
146 North West Corner Method 16682
147 Numeric Distribution 13913
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28220
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47971
150 Operational Efficiency 9747
151 Operational Objectives 13159
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17970
153 Operational Sustainability 27575
154 Operations Management 20066
155 Order Cancellation 10501
156 Order Cycle 18220
157 Order Cycle Time 23272
158 Order Fill Rate 33719
159 Order Fulfillment 6328
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10077
 
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