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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) 38044
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49134
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7459
84 Efficient Frontier 25121
85 Engineer-to-Order 31403
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16083
87 Erlang B Formula 9164
88 ETD 8150
89 Ex Works 7716
90 Exception Rate 13236
91 Exponential smoothing 9672
92 External Growth 9879
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9265
94 Field Services 7627
95 Field Warehouse 9748
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8537
97 Fishbone Diagram 14407
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26672
99 Flow Through Distribution 12120
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7996
101 FOB Destination 12793
102 Forward buying 29827
103 Freight Charge 10160
104 Freight Consolidation 7385
105 Gantt Chart 8164
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11516
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29287
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12492
109 Hub 23157
110 Idle Time 7920
111 Import/Export License 8551
112 In Bond Shipment 13707
113 Inbound Logistics 13317
114 Interstate System 10827
115 Inventory Costs 53016
116 Inventory in Transit 16198
117 Inventory Management 54101
118 Inventory Planning System 9642
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22045
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41758
121 JIT 2 18277
122 Job Production 26932
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8856
124 Kanban Squares 6690
125 Laid-Down Cost 9954
126 Lean Office 5873
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10770
128 Lee's Notation 8417
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13938
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36559
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9024
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7323
133 Logistics Channel 22655
134 Logistics Costs 26396
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6581
136 Manifest 10337
137 Marks and Numbers 12340
138 Material Planning 34750
139 Materials Management 26119
140 Milk Run 42683
141 Mini Land Bridge 14220
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9301
143 Modal Split 15119
144 Movement of Goods 19218
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31223
146 North West Corner Method 16708
147 Numeric Distribution 13949
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28262
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48021
150 Operational Efficiency 9771
151 Operational Objectives 13176
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17985
153 Operational Sustainability 27613
154 Operations Management 20141
155 Order Cancellation 10556
156 Order Cycle 18245
157 Order Cycle Time 23309
158 Order Fill Rate 33754
159 Order Fulfillment 6344
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10101
161 Parts Standardization 9147
162 PDCA Cycle 7859
163 Peak Load Pricing 13201
164 Perfect Order 12930
165 Physical Distribution 24681
166 Pick List 9680
167 Pipeline inventory 42083
168 Postponement 15103
169 Process Bottleneck 6116
170 Process Checklist Template 6766
171 Process Yield 19950
172 Product ID 15720
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10247
174 Production Capacity 27305
175 Production Orientation 25366
176 Production Planning 35935
177 Production Related Materials 7414
178 Production Scheduling 35358
179 Purchasing 22378
180 Quality Audit 6995
 
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