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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 44526
62 Date Code 18521
63 Days of Supply 20010
64 Dead on Arrival 9490
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7422
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8247
67 Detective Control 9040
68 Devanning 14345
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 11107
70 Dispatching 24797
71 Distributed Inventory 8468
72 Distribution Channel Management 35126
73 Distribution Metrics 9319
74 Distribution Planning 24375
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15410
76 Double Marginalization 53012
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22564
78 Dual 5526
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20757
80 Echelon Inventory 26426
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38443
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50156
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7731
84 Efficient Frontier 25724
85 Engineer-to-Order 31967
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16794
87 Erlang B Formula 9468
88 ETD 8442
89 Ex Works 7928
90 Exception Rate 13666
91 Exponential smoothing 9936
92 External Growth 10226
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9654
94 Field Services 7827
95 Field Warehouse 10966
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8968
97 Fishbone Diagram 14760
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27320
99 Flow Through Distribution 12469
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8324
101 FOB Destination 13212
102 Forward buying 30404
103 Freight Charge 10519
104 Freight Consolidation 7627
105 Gantt Chart 8377
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11904
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29764
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12831
109 Hub 23625
110 Idle Time 8178
111 Import/Export License 8842
112 In Bond Shipment 14123
113 Inbound Logistics 13746
114 Interstate System 11130
115 Inventory Costs 54079
116 Inventory in Transit 16721
117 Inventory Management 55245
118 Inventory Planning System 9985
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22498
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43393
121 JIT 2 18567
122 Job Production 28230
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9268
124 Kanban Squares 6968
125 Laid-Down Cost 10373
126 Lean Office 6247
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10920
128 Lee's Notation 8658
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14455
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37648
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9434
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7616
133 Logistics Channel 23070
134 Logistics Costs 26876
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6765
136 Manifest 10692
137 Marks and Numbers 12798
138 Material Planning 35366
139 Materials Management 26553
140 Milk Run 43375
141 Mini Land Bridge 14559
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9734
143 Modal Split 15601
144 Movement of Goods 19695
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31932
146 North West Corner Method 16976
147 Numeric Distribution 14395
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28755
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48806
150 Operational Efficiency 10059
151 Operational Objectives 13490
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18214
153 Operational Sustainability 28289
154 Operations Management 21099
155 Order Cancellation 10983
156 Order Cycle 18585
157 Order Cycle Time 23680
158 Order Fill Rate 34226
159 Order Fulfillment 6577
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10476
 
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