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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 43431
62 Date Code 17784
63 Days of Supply 19515
64 Dead on Arrival 8961
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7096
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 7888
67 Detective Control 8708
68 Devanning 14009
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10625
70 Dispatching 23729
71 Distributed Inventory 8185
72 Distribution Channel Management 34129
73 Distribution Metrics 8756
74 Distribution Planning 23935
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14891
76 Double Marginalization 52270
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22023
78 Dual 5296
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20331
80 Echelon Inventory 25889
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37986
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48970
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7433
84 Efficient Frontier 25035
85 Engineer-to-Order 31311
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16000
87 Erlang B Formula 9131
88 ETD 8109
89 Ex Works 7687
90 Exception Rate 13187
91 Exponential smoothing 9633
92 External Growth 9846
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9232
94 Field Services 7599
95 Field Warehouse 9715
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8477
97 Fishbone Diagram 14345
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26584
99 Flow Through Distribution 12079
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7955
101 FOB Destination 12720
102 Forward buying 29770
103 Freight Charge 10125
104 Freight Consolidation 7352
105 Gantt Chart 8132
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11475
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29227
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12453
109 Hub 23095
110 Idle Time 7886
111 Import/Export License 8508
112 In Bond Shipment 13648
113 Inbound Logistics 13253
114 Interstate System 10798
115 Inventory Costs 52863
116 Inventory in Transit 16135
117 Inventory Management 53949
118 Inventory Planning System 9608
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21980
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41543
121 JIT 2 18242
122 Job Production 26768
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8801
124 Kanban Squares 6652
125 Laid-Down Cost 9917
126 Lean Office 5834
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10758
128 Lee's Notation 8382
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13876
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36402
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8984
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7295
133 Logistics Channel 22601
134 Logistics Costs 26330
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6557
136 Manifest 10275
137 Marks and Numbers 12288
138 Material Planning 34644
139 Materials Management 26062
140 Milk Run 42542
141 Mini Land Bridge 14168
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9240
143 Modal Split 15042
144 Movement of Goods 19168
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31135
146 North West Corner Method 16668
147 Numeric Distribution 13888
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28186
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47923
150 Operational Efficiency 9726
151 Operational Objectives 13139
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17955
153 Operational Sustainability 27549
154 Operations Management 19994
155 Order Cancellation 10463
156 Order Cycle 18198
157 Order Cycle Time 23237
158 Order Fill Rate 33686
159 Order Fulfillment 6312
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10063
 
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