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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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81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 34861
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 42516
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 5929
84 Efficient Frontier 21566
85 Engineer-to-Order 27642
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 13430
87 Erlang B Formula 7250
88 ETD 6492
89 Ex Works 6237
90 Exception Rate 10432
91 Exponential smoothing 8087
92 External Growth 8194
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 7613
94 Field Services 6234
95 Field Warehouse 7906
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 5580
97 Fishbone Diagram 12467
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 22360
99 Flow Through Distribution 10190
100 FOB (Free On Board) 6216
101 FOB Destination 10157
102 Forward buying 27146
103 Freight Charge 8806
104 Freight Consolidation 5916
105 Gantt Chart 6966
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 9151
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 26164
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 10840
109 Hub 20530
110 Idle Time 6548
111 Import/Export License 6777
112 In Bond Shipment 11631
113 Inbound Logistics 11422
114 Interstate System 9464
115 Inventory Costs 45613
116 Inventory in Transit 13410
117 Inventory Management 45895
118 Inventory Planning System 7638
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 19280
120 JIT (Just In Time) 32398
121 JIT 2 16800
122 Job Production 19673
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 7219
124 Kanban Squares 5371
125 Laid-Down Cost 8201
126 Lean Office 4780
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 9772
128 Lee's Notation 6637
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 11051
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 32213
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 7112
132 Linear and Logistics Model 5960
133 Logistics Channel 20179
134 Logistics Costs 23710
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 5377
136 Manifest 8145
137 Marks and Numbers 9996
138 Material Planning 29228
139 Materials Management 23111
140 Milk Run 37192
141 Mini Land Bridge 12488
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 7808
143 Modal Split 12636
144 Movement of Goods 16123
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 27617
146 North West Corner Method 15188
147 Numeric Distribution 11171
148 One Level Distribution Channel 25351
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 44085
150 Operational Efficiency 8305
151 Operational Objectives 11571
152 Operational Performance Measurements 16427
153 Operational Sustainability 24504
154 Operations Management 14253
155 Order Cancellation 8362
156 Order Cycle 16651
157 Order Cycle Time 21129
158 Order Fill Rate 31383
159 Order Fulfillment 5082
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 8702
161 Parts Standardization 7768
162 PDCA Cycle 6740
163 Peak Load Pricing 11886
164 Perfect Order 10739
165 Physical Distribution 21805
166 Pick List 8113
167 Pipeline inventory 38899
168 Postponement 13299
169 Process Bottleneck 4991
170 Process Checklist Template 5781
171 Process Yield 17479
172 Product ID 13830
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 9075
174 Production Capacity 21190
175 Production Orientation 22708
176 Production Planning 27397
177 Production Related Materials 5529
178 Production Scheduling 28558
179 Purchasing 17606
180 Quality Audit 5383
 
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