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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) 38202
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49531
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7571
84 Efficient Frontier 25379
85 Engineer-to-Order 31649
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16333
87 Erlang B Formula 9305
88 ETD 8285
89 Ex Works 7800
90 Exception Rate 13421
91 Exponential smoothing 9785
92 External Growth 10019
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9379
94 Field Services 7710
95 Field Warehouse 10249
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8705
97 Fishbone Diagram 14555
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26926
99 Flow Through Distribution 12258
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8123
101 FOB Destination 12968
102 Forward buying 30006
103 Freight Charge 10277
104 Freight Consolidation 7487
105 Gantt Chart 8256
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11672
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29500
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12629
109 Hub 23347
110 Idle Time 8024
111 Import/Export License 8665
112 In Bond Shipment 13875
113 Inbound Logistics 13517
114 Interstate System 10957
115 Inventory Costs 53435
116 Inventory in Transit 16376
117 Inventory Management 54569
118 Inventory Planning System 9743
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22230
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42465
121 JIT 2 18391
122 Job Production 27447
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9005
124 Kanban Squares 6794
125 Laid-Down Cost 10108
126 Lean Office 5987
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10831
128 Lee's Notation 8527
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14152
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37074
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9203
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7403
133 Logistics Channel 22831
134 Logistics Costs 26580
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6650
136 Manifest 10486
137 Marks and Numbers 12555
138 Material Planning 35008
139 Materials Management 26304
140 Milk Run 43006
141 Mini Land Bridge 14372
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9489
143 Modal Split 15353
144 Movement of Goods 19396
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31502
146 North West Corner Method 16823
147 Numeric Distribution 14149
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28471
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48319
150 Operational Efficiency 9901
151 Operational Objectives 13299
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18090
153 Operational Sustainability 27848
154 Operations Management 20574
155 Order Cancellation 10760
156 Order Cycle 18392
157 Order Cycle Time 23452
158 Order Fill Rate 33951
159 Order Fulfillment 6437
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10260
161 Parts Standardization 9271
162 PDCA Cycle 7940
163 Peak Load Pricing 13326
164 Perfect Order 13146
165 Physical Distribution 24862
166 Pick List 9796
167 Pipeline inventory 42294
168 Postponement 15247
169 Process Bottleneck 6249
170 Process Checklist Template 6888
171 Process Yield 20093
172 Product ID 15852
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10337
174 Production Capacity 27600
175 Production Orientation 25572
176 Production Planning 36427
177 Production Related Materials 7638
178 Production Scheduling 35893
179 Purchasing 22680
180 Quality Audit 7113
 
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