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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) 37140
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 47043
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 6979
84 Efficient Frontier 24098
85 Engineer-to-Order 30368
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15059
87 Erlang B Formula 8594
88 ETD 7687
89 Ex Works 7338
90 Exception Rate 12472
91 Exponential smoothing 9198
92 External Growth 9375
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 8809
94 Field Services 7296
95 Field Warehouse 9284
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 7726
97 Fishbone Diagram 13773
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 25603
99 Flow Through Distribution 11535
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7471
101 FOB Destination 12093
102 Forward buying 28981
103 Freight Charge 9653
104 Freight Consolidation 6900
105 Gantt Chart 7762
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 10838
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 28125
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 11990
109 Hub 22316
110 Idle Time 7468
111 Import/Export License 8018
112 In Bond Shipment 12910
113 Inbound Logistics 12530
114 Interstate System 10451
115 Inventory Costs 50843
116 Inventory in Transit 15361
117 Inventory Management 52269
118 Inventory Planning System 9043
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21062
120 JIT (Just In Time) 38512
121 JIT 2 17824
122 Job Production 25002
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8263
124 Kanban Squares 6281
125 Laid-Down Cost 9303
126 Lean Office 5473
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10507
128 Lee's Notation 7930
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13068
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 34765
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8426
132 Linear and Logistics Model 6845
133 Logistics Channel 21957
134 Logistics Costs 25501
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6182
136 Manifest 9633
137 Marks and Numbers 11727
138 Material Planning 33423
139 Materials Management 25334
140 Milk Run 40743
141 Mini Land Bridge 13634
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 8665
143 Modal Split 14273
144 Movement of Goods 18403
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30182
146 North West Corner Method 16245
147 Numeric Distribution 13134
148 One Level Distribution Channel 27551
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 46878
150 Operational Efficiency 9169
151 Operational Objectives 12591
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17539
153 Operational Sustainability 26627
154 Operations Management 18254
155 Order Cancellation 9759
156 Order Cycle 17698
157 Order Cycle Time 22512
158 Order Fill Rate 32850
159 Order Fulfillment 5912
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9640
161 Parts Standardization 8646
162 PDCA Cycle 7539
163 Peak Load Pricing 12689
164 Perfect Order 12147
165 Physical Distribution 23874
166 Pick List 9121
167 Pipeline inventory 41044
168 Postponement 14495
169 Process Bottleneck 5661
170 Process Checklist Template 6380
171 Process Yield 19279
172 Product ID 15091
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 9904
174 Production Capacity 25557
175 Production Orientation 24631
176 Production Planning 33291
177 Production Related Materials 6776
178 Production Scheduling 33250
179 Purchasing 20880
180 Quality Audit 6402
 
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