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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) 38335
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49924
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7669
84 Efficient Frontier 25588
85 Engineer-to-Order 31853
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16635
87 Erlang B Formula 9403
88 ETD 8378
89 Ex Works 7879
90 Exception Rate 13569
91 Exponential smoothing 9874
92 External Growth 10146
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9574
94 Field Services 7782
95 Field Warehouse 10684
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8860
97 Fishbone Diagram 14677
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27167
99 Flow Through Distribution 12380
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8242
101 FOB Destination 13120
102 Forward buying 30294
103 Freight Charge 10461
104 Freight Consolidation 7581
105 Gantt Chart 8334
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11802
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29671
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12753
109 Hub 23526
110 Idle Time 8121
111 Import/Export License 8783
112 In Bond Shipment 14040
113 Inbound Logistics 13659
114 Interstate System 11068
115 Inventory Costs 53859
116 Inventory in Transit 16607
117 Inventory Management 55005
118 Inventory Planning System 9921
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22382
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43095
121 JIT 2 18503
122 Job Production 27928
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9198
124 Kanban Squares 6894
125 Laid-Down Cost 10282
126 Lean Office 6179
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10892
128 Lee's Notation 8619
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14339
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37442
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9348
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7571
133 Logistics Channel 22985
134 Logistics Costs 26766
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6722
136 Manifest 10608
137 Marks and Numbers 12697
138 Material Planning 35238
139 Materials Management 26459
140 Milk Run 43233
141 Mini Land Bridge 14482
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9644
143 Modal Split 15505
144 Movement of Goods 19564
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31802
146 North West Corner Method 16913
147 Numeric Distribution 14305
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28646
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48607
150 Operational Efficiency 9999
151 Operational Objectives 13419
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18173
153 Operational Sustainability 28165
154 Operations Management 20957
155 Order Cancellation 10901
156 Order Cycle 18514
157 Order Cycle Time 23590
158 Order Fill Rate 34129
159 Order Fulfillment 6520
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10389
161 Parts Standardization 9376
162 PDCA Cycle 8097
163 Peak Load Pricing 13420
164 Perfect Order 13327
165 Physical Distribution 25050
166 Pick List 9906
167 Pipeline inventory 42474
168 Postponement 15355
169 Process Bottleneck 6353
170 Process Checklist Template 6975
171 Process Yield 20298
172 Product ID 15988
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10420
174 Production Capacity 27855
175 Production Orientation 25764
176 Production Planning 36840
177 Production Related Materials 7764
178 Production Scheduling 36253
179 Purchasing 23024
180 Quality Audit 7237
 
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