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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) 38321
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49884
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7659
84 Efficient Frontier 25576
85 Engineer-to-Order 31839
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16617
87 Erlang B Formula 9389
88 ETD 8368
89 Ex Works 7868
90 Exception Rate 13550
91 Exponential smoothing 9863
92 External Growth 10130
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9564
94 Field Services 7772
95 Field Warehouse 10641
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8843
97 Fishbone Diagram 14662
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27149
99 Flow Through Distribution 12365
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8225
101 FOB Destination 13109
102 Forward buying 30267
103 Freight Charge 10451
104 Freight Consolidation 7574
105 Gantt Chart 8328
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11786
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29654
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12741
109 Hub 23508
110 Idle Time 8108
111 Import/Export License 8770
112 In Bond Shipment 14024
113 Inbound Logistics 13643
114 Interstate System 11053
115 Inventory Costs 53822
116 Inventory in Transit 16590
117 Inventory Management 54967
118 Inventory Planning System 9910
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22362
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43041
121 JIT 2 18492
122 Job Production 27878
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9184
124 Kanban Squares 6878
125 Laid-Down Cost 10261
126 Lean Office 6162
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10885
128 Lee's Notation 8606
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14319
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37415
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9337
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7561
133 Logistics Channel 22971
134 Logistics Costs 26748
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6717
136 Manifest 10591
137 Marks and Numbers 12680
138 Material Planning 35213
139 Materials Management 26437
140 Milk Run 43206
141 Mini Land Bridge 14466
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9624
143 Modal Split 15494
144 Movement of Goods 19550
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31774
146 North West Corner Method 16907
147 Numeric Distribution 14291
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28627
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48578
150 Operational Efficiency 9987
151 Operational Objectives 13408
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18160
153 Operational Sustainability 28145
154 Operations Management 20932
155 Order Cancellation 10887
156 Order Cycle 18501
157 Order Cycle Time 23579
158 Order Fill Rate 34109
159 Order Fulfillment 6509
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10375
161 Parts Standardization 9362
162 PDCA Cycle 8085
163 Peak Load Pricing 13407
164 Perfect Order 13310
165 Physical Distribution 25032
166 Pick List 9893
167 Pipeline inventory 42455
168 Postponement 15343
169 Process Bottleneck 6340
170 Process Checklist Template 6965
171 Process Yield 20282
172 Product ID 15974
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10409
174 Production Capacity 27828
175 Production Orientation 25747
176 Production Planning 36800
177 Production Related Materials 7749
178 Production Scheduling 36225
179 Purchasing 22995
180 Quality Audit 7221
 
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