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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) 37820
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48482
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7332
84 Efficient Frontier 24774
85 Engineer-to-Order 31071
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15738
87 Erlang B Formula 8983
88 ETD 8007
89 Ex Works 7613
90 Exception Rate 13001
91 Exponential smoothing 9516
92 External Growth 9736
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9129
94 Field Services 7523
95 Field Warehouse 9583
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8300
97 Fishbone Diagram 14199
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26348
99 Flow Through Distribution 11946
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7831
101 FOB Destination 12546
102 Forward buying 29554
103 Freight Charge 10019
104 Freight Consolidation 7226
105 Gantt Chart 8048
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11297
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 28938
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12357
109 Hub 22906
110 Idle Time 7780
111 Import/Export License 8381
112 In Bond Shipment 13468
113 Inbound Logistics 13079
114 Interstate System 10724
115 Inventory Costs 52361
116 Inventory in Transit 15969
117 Inventory Management 53534
118 Inventory Planning System 9497
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21752
120 JIT (Just In Time) 40782
121 JIT 2 18123
122 Job Production 26272
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8656
124 Kanban Squares 6531
125 Laid-Down Cost 9799
126 Lean Office 5719
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10686
128 Lee's Notation 8255
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13666
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 35927
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8863
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7175
133 Logistics Channel 22449
134 Logistics Costs 26125
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6487
136 Manifest 10121
137 Marks and Numbers 12149
138 Material Planning 34332
139 Materials Management 25910
140 Milk Run 42130
141 Mini Land Bridge 14032
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9060
143 Modal Split 14821
144 Movement of Goods 18964
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30896
146 North West Corner Method 16563
147 Numeric Distribution 13698
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28003
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47650
150 Operational Efficiency 9582
151 Operational Objectives 13016
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17872
153 Operational Sustainability 27293
154 Operations Management 19552
155 Order Cancellation 10284
156 Order Cycle 18069
157 Order Cycle Time 22996
158 Order Fill Rate 33482
159 Order Fulfillment 6205
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9956
161 Parts Standardization 9000
162 PDCA Cycle 7767
163 Peak Load Pricing 13020
164 Perfect Order 12675
165 Physical Distribution 24385
166 Pick List 9514
167 Pipeline inventory 41735
168 Postponement 14908
169 Process Bottleneck 5951
170 Process Checklist Template 6650
171 Process Yield 19754
172 Product ID 15524
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10138
174 Production Capacity 26794
175 Production Orientation 25156
176 Production Planning 35180
177 Production Related Materials 7200
178 Production Scheduling 34704
179 Purchasing 21988
180 Quality Audit 6792
 
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