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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) 38247
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49684
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7607
84 Efficient Frontier 25449
85 Engineer-to-Order 31717
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16453
87 Erlang B Formula 9336
88 ETD 8321
89 Ex Works 7827
90 Exception Rate 13476
91 Exponential smoothing 9821
92 External Growth 10061
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9462
94 Field Services 7738
95 Field Warehouse 10411
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8743
97 Fishbone Diagram 14596
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27004
99 Flow Through Distribution 12299
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8166
101 FOB Destination 13011
102 Forward buying 30103
103 Freight Charge 10361
104 Freight Consolidation 7518
105 Gantt Chart 8280
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11720
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29569
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12670
109 Hub 23406
110 Idle Time 8060
111 Import/Export License 8709
112 In Bond Shipment 13935
113 Inbound Logistics 13569
114 Interstate System 10991
115 Inventory Costs 53578
116 Inventory in Transit 16477
117 Inventory Management 54724
118 Inventory Planning System 9819
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22283
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42646
121 JIT 2 18428
122 Job Production 27621
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9092
124 Kanban Squares 6822
125 Laid-Down Cost 10167
126 Lean Office 6078
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10847
128 Lee's Notation 8560
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14209
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37214
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9253
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7478
133 Logistics Channel 22883
134 Logistics Costs 26650
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6681
136 Manifest 10523
137 Marks and Numbers 12593
138 Material Planning 35080
139 Materials Management 26356
140 Milk Run 43083
141 Mini Land Bridge 14409
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9543
143 Modal Split 15403
144 Movement of Goods 19466
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31609
146 North West Corner Method 16855
147 Numeric Distribution 14214
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28537
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48421
150 Operational Efficiency 9935
151 Operational Objectives 13342
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18116
153 Operational Sustainability 27959
154 Operations Management 20694
155 Order Cancellation 10812
156 Order Cycle 18440
157 Order Cycle Time 23503
158 Order Fill Rate 34012
159 Order Fulfillment 6470
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10307
161 Parts Standardization 9307
162 PDCA Cycle 8011
163 Peak Load Pricing 13359
164 Perfect Order 13216
165 Physical Distribution 24922
166 Pick List 9835
167 Pipeline inventory 42352
168 Postponement 15282
169 Process Bottleneck 6288
170 Process Checklist Template 6922
171 Process Yield 20179
172 Product ID 15896
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10361
174 Production Capacity 27687
175 Production Orientation 25650
176 Production Planning 36570
177 Production Related Materials 7687
178 Production Scheduling 36024
179 Purchasing 22809
180 Quality Audit 7155
 
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