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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) 38378
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50025
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7693
84 Efficient Frontier 25644
85 Engineer-to-Order 31901
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16693
87 Erlang B Formula 9427
88 ETD 8407
89 Ex Works 7897
90 Exception Rate 13615
91 Exponential smoothing 9903
92 External Growth 10177
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9605
94 Field Services 7797
95 Field Warehouse 10811
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8901
97 Fishbone Diagram 14706
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27237
99 Flow Through Distribution 12418
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8276
101 FOB Destination 13158
102 Forward buying 30348
103 Freight Charge 10492
104 Freight Consolidation 7601
105 Gantt Chart 8352
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11842
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29710
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12787
109 Hub 23569
110 Idle Time 8146
111 Import/Export License 8812
112 In Bond Shipment 14080
113 Inbound Logistics 13694
114 Interstate System 11097
115 Inventory Costs 53966
116 Inventory in Transit 16658
117 Inventory Management 55110
118 Inventory Planning System 9950
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22431
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43208
121 JIT 2 18534
122 Job Production 28050
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9227
124 Kanban Squares 6929
125 Laid-Down Cost 10321
126 Lean Office 6209
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10903
128 Lee's Notation 8632
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14387
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37527
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9385
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7591
133 Logistics Channel 23026
134 Logistics Costs 26819
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6740
136 Manifest 10649
137 Marks and Numbers 12739
138 Material Planning 35293
139 Materials Management 26499
140 Milk Run 43298
141 Mini Land Bridge 14518
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9686
143 Modal Split 15552
144 Movement of Goods 19608
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31858
146 North West Corner Method 16943
147 Numeric Distribution 14348
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28690
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48698
150 Operational Efficiency 10024
151 Operational Objectives 13457
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18194
153 Operational Sustainability 28213
154 Operations Management 21016
155 Order Cancellation 10931
156 Order Cycle 18545
157 Order Cycle Time 23631
158 Order Fill Rate 34170
159 Order Fulfillment 6549
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10423
161 Parts Standardization 9402
162 PDCA Cycle 8115
163 Peak Load Pricing 13445
164 Perfect Order 13370
165 Physical Distribution 25101
166 Pick List 9930
167 Pipeline inventory 42523
168 Postponement 15388
169 Process Bottleneck 6388
170 Process Checklist Template 6999
171 Process Yield 20332
172 Product ID 16022
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10442
174 Production Capacity 27927
175 Production Orientation 25814
176 Production Planning 36951
177 Production Related Materials 7819
178 Production Scheduling 36335
179 Purchasing 23098
180 Quality Audit 7261
 
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