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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) 38375
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50017
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7692
84 Efficient Frontier 25640
85 Engineer-to-Order 31900
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16687
87 Erlang B Formula 9426
88 ETD 8407
89 Ex Works 7896
90 Exception Rate 13613
91 Exponential smoothing 9901
92 External Growth 10176
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9604
94 Field Services 7797
95 Field Warehouse 10802
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8900
97 Fishbone Diagram 14705
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27232
99 Flow Through Distribution 12417
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8276
101 FOB Destination 13157
102 Forward buying 30347
103 Freight Charge 10492
104 Freight Consolidation 7599
105 Gantt Chart 8351
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11841
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29708
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12785
109 Hub 23568
110 Idle Time 8145
111 Import/Export License 8810
112 In Bond Shipment 14078
113 Inbound Logistics 13693
114 Interstate System 11095
115 Inventory Costs 53961
116 Inventory in Transit 16651
117 Inventory Management 55100
118 Inventory Planning System 9947
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22426
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43200
121 JIT 2 18533
122 Job Production 28043
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9227
124 Kanban Squares 6929
125 Laid-Down Cost 10314
126 Lean Office 6209
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10903
128 Lee's Notation 8632
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14385
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37518
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9383
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7591
133 Logistics Channel 23024
134 Logistics Costs 26817
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6739
136 Manifest 10646
137 Marks and Numbers 12738
138 Material Planning 35291
139 Materials Management 26499
140 Milk Run 43294
141 Mini Land Bridge 14515
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9685
143 Modal Split 15551
144 Movement of Goods 19604
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31851
146 North West Corner Method 16942
147 Numeric Distribution 14347
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28689
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48690
150 Operational Efficiency 10023
151 Operational Objectives 13456
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18192
153 Operational Sustainability 28209
154 Operations Management 21013
155 Order Cancellation 10930
156 Order Cycle 18544
157 Order Cycle Time 23627
158 Order Fill Rate 34168
159 Order Fulfillment 6547
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10420
161 Parts Standardization 9399
162 PDCA Cycle 8114
163 Peak Load Pricing 13444
164 Perfect Order 13370
165 Physical Distribution 25100
166 Pick List 9928
167 Pipeline inventory 42521
168 Postponement 15387
169 Process Bottleneck 6385
170 Process Checklist Template 6999
171 Process Yield 20331
172 Product ID 16021
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10440
174 Production Capacity 27921
175 Production Orientation 25811
176 Production Planning 36941
177 Production Related Materials 7817
178 Production Scheduling 36329
179 Purchasing 23095
180 Quality Audit 7261
 
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