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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) 37944
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48832
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7399
84 Efficient Frontier 24948
85 Engineer-to-Order 31247
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15933
87 Erlang B Formula 9087
88 ETD 8076
89 Ex Works 7666
90 Exception Rate 13136
91 Exponential smoothing 9602
92 External Growth 9814
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9197
94 Field Services 7578
95 Field Warehouse 9676
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8417
97 Fishbone Diagram 14297
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26505
99 Flow Through Distribution 12036
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7914
101 FOB Destination 12671
102 Forward buying 29702
103 Freight Charge 10089
104 Freight Consolidation 7313
105 Gantt Chart 8108
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11401
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29158
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12419
109 Hub 23043
110 Idle Time 7859
111 Import/Export License 8472
112 In Bond Shipment 13606
113 Inbound Logistics 13204
114 Interstate System 10770
115 Inventory Costs 52725
116 Inventory in Transit 16085
117 Inventory Management 53819
118 Inventory Planning System 9573
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21904
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41339
121 JIT 2 18202
122 Job Production 26600
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8754
124 Kanban Squares 6611
125 Laid-Down Cost 9883
126 Lean Office 5797
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10730
128 Lee's Notation 8347
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13809
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36261
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8948
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7255
133 Logistics Channel 22553
134 Logistics Costs 26272
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6531
136 Manifest 10229
137 Marks and Numbers 12253
138 Material Planning 34555
139 Materials Management 26017
140 Milk Run 42419
141 Mini Land Bridge 14123
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9177
143 Modal Split 14965
144 Movement of Goods 19118
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31055
146 North West Corner Method 16640
147 Numeric Distribution 13838
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28132
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47838
150 Operational Efficiency 9673
151 Operational Objectives 13102
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17927
153 Operational Sustainability 27475
154 Operations Management 19857
155 Order Cancellation 10405
156 Order Cycle 18161
157 Order Cycle Time 23180
158 Order Fill Rate 33619
159 Order Fulfillment 6279
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10036
161 Parts Standardization 9070
162 PDCA Cycle 7810
163 Peak Load Pricing 13119
164 Perfect Order 12806
165 Physical Distribution 24548
166 Pick List 9600
167 Pipeline inventory 41932
168 Postponement 15017
169 Process Bottleneck 6039
170 Process Checklist Template 6708
171 Process Yield 19858
172 Product ID 15624
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10185
174 Production Capacity 27059
175 Production Orientation 25258
176 Production Planning 35599
177 Production Related Materials 7308
178 Production Scheduling 35058
179 Purchasing 22201
180 Quality Audit 6897
 
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