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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) 37953
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48853
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7403
84 Efficient Frontier 24967
85 Engineer-to-Order 31255
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15947
87 Erlang B Formula 9093
88 ETD 8084
89 Ex Works 7669
90 Exception Rate 13142
91 Exponential smoothing 9609
92 External Growth 9821
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9206
94 Field Services 7581
95 Field Warehouse 9685
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8429
97 Fishbone Diagram 14303
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26518
99 Flow Through Distribution 12043
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7923
101 FOB Destination 12679
102 Forward buying 29714
103 Freight Charge 10097
104 Freight Consolidation 7321
105 Gantt Chart 8112
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11416
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29178
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12423
109 Hub 23048
110 Idle Time 7863
111 Import/Export License 8477
112 In Bond Shipment 13612
113 Inbound Logistics 13212
114 Interstate System 10774
115 Inventory Costs 52753
116 Inventory in Transit 16099
117 Inventory Management 53839
118 Inventory Planning System 9581
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21922
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41379
121 JIT 2 18209
122 Job Production 26630
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8761
124 Kanban Squares 6619
125 Laid-Down Cost 9887
126 Lean Office 5803
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10734
128 Lee's Notation 8352
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13823
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36284
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8954
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7264
133 Logistics Channel 22565
134 Logistics Costs 26280
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6536
136 Manifest 10236
137 Marks and Numbers 12259
138 Material Planning 34574
139 Materials Management 26027
140 Milk Run 42433
141 Mini Land Bridge 14129
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9187
143 Modal Split 14979
144 Movement of Goods 19126
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31068
146 North West Corner Method 16644
147 Numeric Distribution 13847
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28143
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47852
150 Operational Efficiency 9680
151 Operational Objectives 13110
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17929
153 Operational Sustainability 27486
154 Operations Management 19878
155 Order Cancellation 10414
156 Order Cycle 18166
157 Order Cycle Time 23189
158 Order Fill Rate 33630
159 Order Fulfillment 6285
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10041
161 Parts Standardization 9076
162 PDCA Cycle 7818
163 Peak Load Pricing 13125
164 Perfect Order 12819
165 Physical Distribution 24555
166 Pick List 9603
167 Pipeline inventory 41944
168 Postponement 15022
169 Process Bottleneck 6050
170 Process Checklist Template 6715
171 Process Yield 19867
172 Product ID 15630
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10189
174 Production Capacity 27097
175 Production Orientation 25263
176 Production Planning 35629
177 Production Related Materials 7316
178 Production Scheduling 35090
179 Purchasing 22216
180 Quality Audit 6908
 
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