1. Business Concepts
    2. ›
  2. Operations and Supply Chain

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.

Title Filter 
# Name Hits
71 Distributed Inventory 7811
72 Distribution Channel Management 32583
73 Distribution Metrics 8005
74 Distribution Planning 23324
75 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP-II) 14199
76 Double Marginalization 51167
77 DRP (Distribution Requirements Planning) 21411
78 Dual 4879
79 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) 19917
80 Echelon Inventory 25397
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37124
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 47018
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 6972
84 Efficient Frontier 24085
85 Engineer-to-Order 30358
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15052
87 Erlang B Formula 8584
88 ETD 7680
89 Ex Works 7331
90 Exception Rate 12465
91 Exponential smoothing 9191
92 External Growth 9368
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 8795
94 Field Services 7294
95 Field Warehouse 9281
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 7713
97 Fishbone Diagram 13769
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 25593
99 Flow Through Distribution 11526
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7461
101 FOB Destination 12079
102 Forward buying 28967
103 Freight Charge 9647
104 Freight Consolidation 6894
105 Gantt Chart 7758
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 10828
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 28111
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 11982
109 Hub 22305
110 Idle Time 7461
111 Import/Export License 8011
112 In Bond Shipment 12896
113 Inbound Logistics 12522
114 Interstate System 10446
115 Inventory Costs 50811
116 Inventory in Transit 15344
117 Inventory Management 52239
118 Inventory Planning System 9029
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21048
120 JIT (Just In Time) 38459
121 JIT 2 17823
122 Job Production 24975
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8261
124 Kanban Squares 6277
125 Laid-Down Cost 9297
126 Lean Office 5471
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10505
128 Lee's Notation 7927
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13058
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 34740
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8414
132 Linear and Logistics Model 6838
133 Logistics Channel 21949
134 Logistics Costs 25487
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6179
136 Manifest 9624
137 Marks and Numbers 11717
138 Material Planning 33403
139 Materials Management 25322
140 Milk Run 40719
141 Mini Land Bridge 13630
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 8656
143 Modal Split 14267
144 Movement of Goods 18391
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30164
146 North West Corner Method 16239
147 Numeric Distribution 13126
148 One Level Distribution Channel 27545
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 46866
150 Operational Efficiency 9165
151 Operational Objectives 12587
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17537
153 Operational Sustainability 26614
154 Operations Management 18228
155 Order Cancellation 9750
156 Order Cycle 17687
157 Order Cycle Time 22504
158 Order Fill Rate 32843
159 Order Fulfillment 5905
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9634
161 Parts Standardization 8641
162 PDCA Cycle 7534
163 Peak Load Pricing 12683
164 Perfect Order 12137
165 Physical Distribution 23864
166 Pick List 9112
167 Pipeline inventory 41034
168 Postponement 14490
169 Process Bottleneck 5659
170 Process Checklist Template 6378
 
Page 1 of 3