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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) 38359
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49978
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7684
84 Efficient Frontier 25618
85 Engineer-to-Order 31876
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16671
87 Erlang B Formula 9418
88 ETD 8393
89 Ex Works 7887
90 Exception Rate 13594
91 Exponential smoothing 9891
92 External Growth 10167
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9590
94 Field Services 7792
95 Field Warehouse 10748
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8883
97 Fishbone Diagram 14692
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27203
99 Flow Through Distribution 12402
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8260
101 FOB Destination 13143
102 Forward buying 30329
103 Freight Charge 10481
104 Freight Consolidation 7592
105 Gantt Chart 8345
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11825
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29692
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12771
109 Hub 23553
110 Idle Time 8134
111 Import/Export License 8803
112 In Bond Shipment 14067
113 Inbound Logistics 13680
114 Interstate System 11085
115 Inventory Costs 53927
116 Inventory in Transit 16633
117 Inventory Management 55060
118 Inventory Planning System 9939
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22409
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43155
121 JIT 2 18517
122 Job Production 28008
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9213
124 Kanban Squares 6916
125 Laid-Down Cost 10300
126 Lean Office 6198
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10898
128 Lee's Notation 8627
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14366
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37484
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9368
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7580
133 Logistics Channel 23010
134 Logistics Costs 26800
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6733
136 Manifest 10630
137 Marks and Numbers 12720
138 Material Planning 35269
139 Materials Management 26481
140 Milk Run 43273
141 Mini Land Bridge 14499
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9663
143 Modal Split 15532
144 Movement of Goods 19590
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31832
146 North West Corner Method 16930
147 Numeric Distribution 14326
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28674
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48662
150 Operational Efficiency 10013
151 Operational Objectives 13442
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18182
153 Operational Sustainability 28192
154 Operations Management 20985
155 Order Cancellation 10920
156 Order Cycle 18528
157 Order Cycle Time 23615
158 Order Fill Rate 34149
159 Order Fulfillment 6533
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10411
161 Parts Standardization 9389
162 PDCA Cycle 8107
163 Peak Load Pricing 13432
164 Perfect Order 13352
165 Physical Distribution 25082
166 Pick List 9922
167 Pipeline inventory 42506
168 Postponement 15369
169 Process Bottleneck 6373
170 Process Checklist Template 6991
171 Process Yield 20316
172 Product ID 16008
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10432
174 Production Capacity 27900
175 Production Orientation 25790
176 Production Planning 36909
177 Production Related Materials 7799
178 Production Scheduling 36294
179 Purchasing 23075
180 Quality Audit 7249
 
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