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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) 38332
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49911
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7666
84 Efficient Frontier 25586
85 Engineer-to-Order 31846
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16630
87 Erlang B Formula 9399
88 ETD 8374
89 Ex Works 7877
90 Exception Rate 13564
91 Exponential smoothing 9871
92 External Growth 10143
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9571
94 Field Services 7777
95 Field Warehouse 10667
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8854
97 Fishbone Diagram 14673
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27160
99 Flow Through Distribution 12375
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8233
101 FOB Destination 13117
102 Forward buying 30287
103 Freight Charge 10458
104 Freight Consolidation 7578
105 Gantt Chart 8331
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11799
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29664
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12750
109 Hub 23525
110 Idle Time 8118
111 Import/Export License 8780
112 In Bond Shipment 14031
113 Inbound Logistics 13656
114 Interstate System 11063
115 Inventory Costs 53848
116 Inventory in Transit 16601
117 Inventory Management 54994
118 Inventory Planning System 9917
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22378
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43084
121 JIT 2 18499
122 Job Production 27910
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9194
124 Kanban Squares 6888
125 Laid-Down Cost 10273
126 Lean Office 6174
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10890
128 Lee's Notation 8614
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14332
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37433
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9344
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7565
133 Logistics Channel 22981
134 Logistics Costs 26755
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6722
136 Manifest 10603
137 Marks and Numbers 12692
138 Material Planning 35227
139 Materials Management 26452
140 Milk Run 43225
141 Mini Land Bridge 14476
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9638
143 Modal Split 15502
144 Movement of Goods 19557
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31793
146 North West Corner Method 16912
147 Numeric Distribution 14301
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28640
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48601
150 Operational Efficiency 9996
151 Operational Objectives 13416
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18167
153 Operational Sustainability 28156
154 Operations Management 20947
155 Order Cancellation 10896
156 Order Cycle 18508
157 Order Cycle Time 23587
158 Order Fill Rate 34126
159 Order Fulfillment 6519
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10384
161 Parts Standardization 9373
162 PDCA Cycle 8094
163 Peak Load Pricing 13417
164 Perfect Order 13321
165 Physical Distribution 25043
166 Pick List 9902
167 Pipeline inventory 42465
168 Postponement 15350
169 Process Bottleneck 6349
170 Process Checklist Template 6971
171 Process Yield 20292
172 Product ID 15982
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10416
174 Production Capacity 27841
175 Production Orientation 25757
176 Production Planning 36829
177 Production Related Materials 7758
178 Production Scheduling 36244
179 Purchasing 23016
180 Quality Audit 7232
 
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