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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 44163
62 Date Code 18235
63 Days of Supply 19840
64 Dead on Arrival 9327
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7314
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8112
67 Detective Control 8915
68 Devanning 14216
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10963
70 Dispatching 24526
71 Distributed Inventory 8360
72 Distribution Channel Management 34755
73 Distribution Metrics 9121
74 Distribution Planning 24202
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15219
76 Double Marginalization 52749
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22382
78 Dual 5444
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20617
80 Echelon Inventory 26211
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38274
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49738
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7620
84 Efficient Frontier 25491
85 Engineer-to-Order 31756
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16526
87 Erlang B Formula 9349
88 ETD 8336
89 Ex Works 7837
90 Exception Rate 13496
91 Exponential smoothing 9834
92 External Growth 10078
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9525
94 Field Services 7744
95 Field Warehouse 10467
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8768
97 Fishbone Diagram 14611
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27041
99 Flow Through Distribution 12312
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8184
101 FOB Destination 13035
102 Forward buying 30169
103 Freight Charge 10412
104 Freight Consolidation 7534
105 Gantt Chart 8290
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11737
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29594
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12685
109 Hub 23436
110 Idle Time 8071
111 Import/Export License 8724
112 In Bond Shipment 13960
113 Inbound Logistics 13588
114 Interstate System 11009
115 Inventory Costs 53640
116 Inventory in Transit 16536
117 Inventory Management 54810
118 Inventory Planning System 9874
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22307
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42739
121 JIT 2 18444
122 Job Production 27688
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9150
124 Kanban Squares 6840
125 Laid-Down Cost 10191
126 Lean Office 6128
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10861
128 Lee's Notation 8572
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14237
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37291
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9275
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7532
133 Logistics Channel 22918
134 Logistics Costs 26691
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6693
136 Manifest 10540
137 Marks and Numbers 12610
138 Material Planning 35109
139 Materials Management 26379
140 Milk Run 43117
141 Mini Land Bridge 14423
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9570
143 Modal Split 15429
144 Movement of Goods 19487
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31656
146 North West Corner Method 16873
147 Numeric Distribution 14235
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28556
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48456
150 Operational Efficiency 9948
151 Operational Objectives 13356
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18126
153 Operational Sustainability 28027
154 Operations Management 20791
155 Order Cancellation 10831
156 Order Cycle 18451
157 Order Cycle Time 23523
158 Order Fill Rate 34039
159 Order Fulfillment 6477
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10322
 
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