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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 44560
62 Date Code 18544
63 Days of Supply 20025
64 Dead on Arrival 9506
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7435
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8264
67 Detective Control 9062
68 Devanning 14353
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11125
70 Dispatching 24827
71 Distributed Inventory 8476
72 Distribution Channel Management 35157
73 Distribution Metrics 9340
74 Distribution Planning 24392
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15429
76 Double Marginalization 53036
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22582
78 Dual 5538
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20771
80 Echelon Inventory 26458
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38465
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50198
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7743
84 Efficient Frontier 25746
85 Engineer-to-Order 31989
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16818
87 Erlang B Formula 9475
88 ETD 8456
89 Ex Works 7941
90 Exception Rate 13684
91 Exponential smoothing 9946
92 External Growth 10240
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9672
94 Field Services 7834
95 Field Warehouse 11032
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8991
97 Fishbone Diagram 14777
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27354
99 Flow Through Distribution 12487
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8344
101 FOB Destination 13227
102 Forward buying 30433
103 Freight Charge 10528
104 Freight Consolidation 7633
105 Gantt Chart 8386
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11933
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29777
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12849
109 Hub 23652
110 Idle Time 8194
111 Import/Export License 8855
112 In Bond Shipment 14141
113 Inbound Logistics 13760
114 Interstate System 11139
115 Inventory Costs 54109
116 Inventory in Transit 16747
117 Inventory Management 55298
118 Inventory Planning System 10003
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22520
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43470
121 JIT 2 18581
122 Job Production 28285
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9279
124 Kanban Squares 6981
125 Laid-Down Cost 10394
126 Lean Office 6258
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10926
128 Lee's Notation 8670
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14479
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37676
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9447
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7621
133 Logistics Channel 23084
134 Logistics Costs 26894
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6772
136 Manifest 10708
137 Marks and Numbers 12823
138 Material Planning 35387
139 Materials Management 26572
140 Milk Run 43400
141 Mini Land Bridge 14568
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9745
143 Modal Split 15617
144 Movement of Goods 19723
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31955
146 North West Corner Method 16985
147 Numeric Distribution 14409
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28772
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48835
150 Operational Efficiency 10071
151 Operational Objectives 13499
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18226
153 Operational Sustainability 28309
154 Operations Management 21121
155 Order Cancellation 10997
156 Order Cycle 18593
157 Order Cycle Time 23697
158 Order Fill Rate 34253
159 Order Fulfillment 6588
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10487
 
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