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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 44434
62 Date Code 18468
63 Days of Supply 19980
64 Dead on Arrival 9461
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7400
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8225
67 Detective Control 9015
68 Devanning 14323
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11081
70 Dispatching 24741
71 Distributed Inventory 8452
72 Distribution Channel Management 35068
73 Distribution Metrics 9279
74 Distribution Planning 24346
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15377
76 Double Marginalization 52965
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22526
78 Dual 5506
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20736
80 Echelon Inventory 26366
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38403
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50073
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7713
84 Efficient Frontier 25675
85 Engineer-to-Order 31927
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16727
87 Erlang B Formula 9445
88 ETD 8420
89 Ex Works 7912
90 Exception Rate 13640
91 Exponential smoothing 9919
92 External Growth 10198
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9621
94 Field Services 7808
95 Field Warehouse 10880
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8928
97 Fishbone Diagram 14728
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27272
99 Flow Through Distribution 12436
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8293
101 FOB Destination 13172
102 Forward buying 30368
103 Freight Charge 10500
104 Freight Consolidation 7607
105 Gantt Chart 8360
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11867
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29729
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12802
109 Hub 23587
110 Idle Time 8158
111 Import/Export License 8821
112 In Bond Shipment 14092
113 Inbound Logistics 13712
114 Interstate System 11109
115 Inventory Costs 54009
116 Inventory in Transit 16682
117 Inventory Management 55160
118 Inventory Planning System 9962
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22461
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43266
121 JIT 2 18546
122 Job Production 28123
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9245
124 Kanban Squares 6947
125 Laid-Down Cost 10339
126 Lean Office 6222
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10909
128 Lee's Notation 8642
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14417
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37568
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9407
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7600
133 Logistics Channel 23042
134 Logistics Costs 26844
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6751
136 Manifest 10667
137 Marks and Numbers 12771
138 Material Planning 35319
139 Materials Management 26520
140 Milk Run 43328
141 Mini Land Bridge 14536
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9704
143 Modal Split 15569
144 Movement of Goods 19632
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31886
146 North West Corner Method 16953
147 Numeric Distribution 14363
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28718
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48751
150 Operational Efficiency 10040
151 Operational Objectives 13470
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18198
153 Operational Sustainability 28244
154 Operations Management 21047
155 Order Cancellation 10951
156 Order Cycle 18558
157 Order Cycle Time 23647
158 Order Fill Rate 34190
159 Order Fulfillment 6561
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10448
 
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