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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) 38353
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49961
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7678
84 Efficient Frontier 25605
85 Engineer-to-Order 31871
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16661
87 Erlang B Formula 9412
88 ETD 8389
89 Ex Works 7882
90 Exception Rate 13583
91 Exponential smoothing 9883
92 External Growth 10159
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9583
94 Field Services 7789
95 Field Warehouse 10724
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8873
97 Fishbone Diagram 14686
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27195
99 Flow Through Distribution 12395
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8250
101 FOB Destination 13131
102 Forward buying 30315
103 Freight Charge 10475
104 Freight Consolidation 7590
105 Gantt Chart 8341
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11816
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29685
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12764
109 Hub 23544
110 Idle Time 8130
111 Import/Export License 8796
112 In Bond Shipment 14057
113 Inbound Logistics 13671
114 Interstate System 11079
115 Inventory Costs 53900
116 Inventory in Transit 16623
117 Inventory Management 55044
118 Inventory Planning System 9933
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22401
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43141
121 JIT 2 18512
122 Job Production 27979
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9209
124 Kanban Squares 6905
125 Laid-Down Cost 10291
126 Lean Office 6190
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10896
128 Lee's Notation 8627
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14357
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37467
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9362
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7578
133 Logistics Channel 23003
134 Logistics Costs 26788
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6730
136 Manifest 10622
137 Marks and Numbers 12711
138 Material Planning 35256
139 Materials Management 26474
140 Milk Run 43256
141 Mini Land Bridge 14495
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9654
143 Modal Split 15526
144 Movement of Goods 19583
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31825
146 North West Corner Method 16925
147 Numeric Distribution 14320
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28662
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48646
150 Operational Efficiency 10006
151 Operational Objectives 13433
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18181
153 Operational Sustainability 28182
154 Operations Management 20974
155 Order Cancellation 10915
156 Order Cycle 18526
157 Order Cycle Time 23605
158 Order Fill Rate 34140
159 Order Fulfillment 6530
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10405
161 Parts Standardization 9386
162 PDCA Cycle 8103
163 Peak Load Pricing 13429
164 Perfect Order 13343
165 Physical Distribution 25072
166 Pick List 9914
167 Pipeline inventory 42493
168 Postponement 15366
169 Process Bottleneck 6366
170 Process Checklist Template 6987
171 Process Yield 20311
172 Product ID 16001
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10429
174 Production Capacity 27885
175 Production Orientation 25781
176 Production Planning 36885
177 Production Related Materials 7781
178 Production Scheduling 36278
179 Purchasing 23060
180 Quality Audit 7245
 
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