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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 43956
62 Date Code 18104
63 Days of Supply 19734
64 Dead on Arrival 9151
65 Dedicated Contract Carriage 7249
66 Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) 8043
67 Detective Control 8852
68 Devanning 14155
69 Direct Store Delivery (DSD) 10797
70 Dispatching 24310
71 Distributed Inventory 8297
72 Distribution Channel Management 34541
73 Distribution Metrics 9014
74 Distribution Planning 24115
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 15119
76 Double Marginalization 52525
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 22210
78 Dual 5392
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 20523
80 Echelon Inventory 26087
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38180
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49469
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7558
84 Efficient Frontier 25343
85 Engineer-to-Order 31615
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16300
87 Erlang B Formula 9284
88 ETD 8269
89 Ex Works 7789
90 Exception Rate 13398
91 Exponential smoothing 9771
92 External Growth 9999
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9364
94 Field Services 7699
95 Field Warehouse 10132
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8684
97 Fishbone Diagram 14530
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26883
99 Flow Through Distribution 12241
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8104
101 FOB Destination 12951
102 Forward buying 29974
103 Freight Charge 10261
104 Freight Consolidation 7474
105 Gantt Chart 8237
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11649
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29465
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12613
109 Hub 23318
110 Idle Time 8004
111 Import/Export License 8652
112 In Bond Shipment 13841
113 Inbound Logistics 13486
114 Interstate System 10938
115 Inventory Costs 53373
116 Inventory in Transit 16349
117 Inventory Management 54507
118 Inventory Planning System 9730
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22206
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42362
121 JIT 2 18375
122 Job Production 27369
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8983
124 Kanban Squares 6779
125 Laid-Down Cost 10086
126 Lean Office 5969
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10824
128 Lee's Notation 8513
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14119
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37001
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9177
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7392
133 Logistics Channel 22808
134 Logistics Costs 26552
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6640
136 Manifest 10466
137 Marks and Numbers 12528
138 Material Planning 34983
139 Materials Management 26282
140 Milk Run 42951
141 Mini Land Bridge 14347
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9460
143 Modal Split 15329
144 Movement of Goods 19369
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31447
146 North West Corner Method 16807
147 Numeric Distribution 14119
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28444
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48275
150 Operational Efficiency 9880
151 Operational Objectives 13282
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18079
153 Operational Sustainability 27809
154 Operations Management 20517
155 Order Cancellation 10736
156 Order Cycle 18373
157 Order Cycle Time 23430
158 Order Fill Rate 33923
159 Order Fulfillment 6423
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10230
 
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