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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 44102
62 Date Code 18194
63 Days of Supply 19808
64 Dead on Arrival 9247
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7296
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8087
67 Detective Control 8894
68 Devanning 14197
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10875
70 Dispatching 24463
71 Distributed Inventory 8341
72 Distribution Channel Management 34686
73 Distribution Metrics 9093
74 Distribution Planning 24176
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15196
76 Double Marginalization 52643
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22300
78 Dual 5431
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20587
80 Echelon Inventory 26178
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38241
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49664
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7602
84 Efficient Frontier 25440
85 Engineer-to-Order 31713
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16426
87 Erlang B Formula 9331
88 ETD 8316
89 Ex Works 7823
90 Exception Rate 13467
91 Exponential smoothing 9817
92 External Growth 10059
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9439
94 Field Services 7734
95 Field Warehouse 10394
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8741
97 Fishbone Diagram 14587
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26995
99 Flow Through Distribution 12294
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8163
101 FOB Destination 13005
102 Forward buying 30075
103 Freight Charge 10337
104 Freight Consolidation 7514
105 Gantt Chart 8278
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11716
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29561
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12665
109 Hub 23398
110 Idle Time 8057
111 Import/Export License 8700
112 In Bond Shipment 13928
113 Inbound Logistics 13564
114 Interstate System 10989
115 Inventory Costs 53565
116 Inventory in Transit 16453
117 Inventory Management 54691
118 Inventory Planning System 9795
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22273
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42618
121 JIT 2 18421
122 Job Production 27599
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9068
124 Kanban Squares 6817
125 Laid-Down Cost 10157
126 Lean Office 6053
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10846
128 Lee's Notation 8553
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14203
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37185
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9245
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7452
133 Logistics Channel 22878
134 Logistics Costs 26643
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6679
136 Manifest 10516
137 Marks and Numbers 12587
138 Material Planning 35071
139 Materials Management 26349
140 Milk Run 43076
141 Mini Land Bridge 14405
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9534
143 Modal Split 15396
144 Movement of Goods 19458
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31597
146 North West Corner Method 16850
147 Numeric Distribution 14205
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28527
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48401
150 Operational Efficiency 9929
151 Operational Objectives 13339
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18112
153 Operational Sustainability 27933
154 Operations Management 20662
155 Order Cancellation 10805
156 Order Cycle 18432
157 Order Cycle Time 23494
158 Order Fill Rate 34003
159 Order Fulfillment 6465
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10298
 
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