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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) 38184
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49481
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7560
84 Efficient Frontier 25348
85 Engineer-to-Order 31623
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16308
87 Erlang B Formula 9291
88 ETD 8271
89 Ex Works 7790
90 Exception Rate 13402
91 Exponential smoothing 9773
92 External Growth 10004
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9370
94 Field Services 7701
95 Field Warehouse 10156
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8687
97 Fishbone Diagram 14534
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26893
99 Flow Through Distribution 12243
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8107
101 FOB Destination 12956
102 Forward buying 29979
103 Freight Charge 10265
104 Freight Consolidation 7478
105 Gantt Chart 8241
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11653
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29470
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12614
109 Hub 23321
110 Idle Time 8008
111 Import/Export License 8655
112 In Bond Shipment 13849
113 Inbound Logistics 13491
114 Interstate System 10943
115 Inventory Costs 53385
116 Inventory in Transit 16354
117 Inventory Management 54516
118 Inventory Planning System 9733
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22211
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42380
121 JIT 2 18379
122 Job Production 27387
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8987
124 Kanban Squares 6782
125 Laid-Down Cost 10092
126 Lean Office 5970
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10826
128 Lee's Notation 8515
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14123
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37016
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9180
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7394
133 Logistics Channel 22814
134 Logistics Costs 26554
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6642
136 Manifest 10470
137 Marks and Numbers 12536
138 Material Planning 34988
139 Materials Management 26284
140 Milk Run 42963
141 Mini Land Bridge 14350
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9466
143 Modal Split 15334
144 Movement of Goods 19375
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31457
146 North West Corner Method 16809
147 Numeric Distribution 14126
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28452
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48287
150 Operational Efficiency 9886
151 Operational Objectives 13285
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18082
153 Operational Sustainability 27816
154 Operations Management 20522
155 Order Cancellation 10740
156 Order Cycle 18375
157 Order Cycle Time 23433
158 Order Fill Rate 33929
159 Order Fulfillment 6430
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10237
161 Parts Standardization 9256
162 PDCA Cycle 7934
163 Peak Load Pricing 13311
164 Perfect Order 13126
165 Physical Distribution 24841
166 Pick List 9783
167 Pipeline inventory 42272
168 Postponement 15229
169 Process Bottleneck 6235
170 Process Checklist Template 6877
171 Process Yield 20075
172 Product ID 15833
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10333
174 Production Capacity 27556
175 Production Orientation 25547
176 Production Planning 36370
177 Production Related Materials 7616
178 Production Scheduling 35837
179 Purchasing 22632
180 Quality Audit 7101
 
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