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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) 38466
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50202
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7744
84 Efficient Frontier 25750
85 Engineer-to-Order 31993
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16821
87 Erlang B Formula 9477
88 ETD 8458
89 Ex Works 7945
90 Exception Rate 13686
91 Exponential smoothing 9947
92 External Growth 10242
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9672
94 Field Services 7836
95 Field Warehouse 11043
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8993
97 Fishbone Diagram 14781
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27358
99 Flow Through Distribution 12490
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8345
101 FOB Destination 13228
102 Forward buying 30438
103 Freight Charge 10532
104 Freight Consolidation 7636
105 Gantt Chart 8387
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11936
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29779
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12851
109 Hub 23654
110 Idle Time 8196
111 Import/Export License 8856
112 In Bond Shipment 14141
113 Inbound Logistics 13760
114 Interstate System 11141
115 Inventory Costs 54117
116 Inventory in Transit 16753
117 Inventory Management 55307
118 Inventory Planning System 10005
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22523
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43479
121 JIT 2 18584
122 Job Production 28296
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9281
124 Kanban Squares 6982
125 Laid-Down Cost 10394
126 Lean Office 6259
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10926
128 Lee's Notation 8673
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14481
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37680
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9452
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7626
133 Logistics Channel 23087
134 Logistics Costs 26897
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6772
136 Manifest 10710
137 Marks and Numbers 12825
138 Material Planning 35391
139 Materials Management 26576
140 Milk Run 43403
141 Mini Land Bridge 14571
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9748
143 Modal Split 15620
144 Movement of Goods 19729
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31958
146 North West Corner Method 16985
147 Numeric Distribution 14413
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28774
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48841
150 Operational Efficiency 10072
151 Operational Objectives 13500
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18227
153 Operational Sustainability 28316
154 Operations Management 21124
155 Order Cancellation 10998
156 Order Cycle 18596
157 Order Cycle Time 23699
158 Order Fill Rate 34256
159 Order Fulfillment 6592
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10488
161 Parts Standardization 9439
162 PDCA Cycle 8143
163 Peak Load Pricing 13487
164 Perfect Order 13444
165 Physical Distribution 25189
166 Pick List 9988
167 Pipeline inventory 42611
168 Postponement 15465
169 Process Bottleneck 6434
170 Process Checklist Template 7029
171 Process Yield 20384
172 Product ID 16080
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10496
174 Production Capacity 28054
175 Production Orientation 25920
176 Production Planning 37128
177 Production Related Materials 7905
178 Production Scheduling 36483
179 Purchasing 23232
180 Quality Audit 7329
 
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