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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) 38051
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49147
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7465
84 Efficient Frontier 25133
85 Engineer-to-Order 31416
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16092
87 Erlang B Formula 9171
88 ETD 8158
89 Ex Works 7723
90 Exception Rate 13244
91 Exponential smoothing 9679
92 External Growth 9884
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9272
94 Field Services 7634
95 Field Warehouse 9755
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8546
97 Fishbone Diagram 14413
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26686
99 Flow Through Distribution 12128
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8003
101 FOB Destination 12804
102 Forward buying 29836
103 Freight Charge 10167
104 Freight Consolidation 7389
105 Gantt Chart 8169
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11521
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29300
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12502
109 Hub 23166
110 Idle Time 7923
111 Import/Export License 8557
112 In Bond Shipment 13711
113 Inbound Logistics 13330
114 Interstate System 10833
115 Inventory Costs 53042
116 Inventory in Transit 16211
117 Inventory Management 54126
118 Inventory Planning System 9648
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22057
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41796
121 JIT 2 18283
122 Job Production 26957
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8866
124 Kanban Squares 6698
125 Laid-Down Cost 9958
126 Lean Office 5876
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10772
128 Lee's Notation 8421
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13950
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36581
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9035
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7327
133 Logistics Channel 22663
134 Logistics Costs 26406
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6585
136 Manifest 10346
137 Marks and Numbers 12349
138 Material Planning 34767
139 Materials Management 26129
140 Milk Run 42703
141 Mini Land Bridge 14227
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9309
143 Modal Split 15130
144 Movement of Goods 19223
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31241
146 North West Corner Method 16715
147 Numeric Distribution 13957
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28270
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48038
150 Operational Efficiency 9775
151 Operational Objectives 13181
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17992
153 Operational Sustainability 27627
154 Operations Management 20164
155 Order Cancellation 10564
156 Order Cycle 18252
157 Order Cycle Time 23316
158 Order Fill Rate 33758
159 Order Fulfillment 6349
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10109
161 Parts Standardization 9151
162 PDCA Cycle 7861
163 Peak Load Pricing 13210
164 Perfect Order 12935
165 Physical Distribution 24688
166 Pick List 9685
167 Pipeline inventory 42096
168 Postponement 15107
169 Process Bottleneck 6120
170 Process Checklist Template 6770
171 Process Yield 19960
172 Product ID 15728
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10251
174 Production Capacity 27316
175 Production Orientation 25373
176 Production Planning 35962
177 Production Related Materials 7425
178 Production Scheduling 35383
179 Purchasing 22392
180 Quality Audit 7000
 
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