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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) 38312
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49862
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7651
84 Efficient Frontier 25565
85 Engineer-to-Order 31826
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16602
87 Erlang B Formula 9386
88 ETD 8362
89 Ex Works 7864
90 Exception Rate 13544
91 Exponential smoothing 9857
92 External Growth 10122
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9558
94 Field Services 7768
95 Field Warehouse 10624
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8833
97 Fishbone Diagram 14655
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27132
99 Flow Through Distribution 12358
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8217
101 FOB Destination 13096
102 Forward buying 30254
103 Freight Charge 10444
104 Freight Consolidation 7567
105 Gantt Chart 8323
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11780
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29648
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12735
109 Hub 23498
110 Idle Time 8103
111 Import/Export License 8762
112 In Bond Shipment 14019
113 Inbound Logistics 13637
114 Interstate System 11046
115 Inventory Costs 53796
116 Inventory in Transit 16581
117 Inventory Management 54952
118 Inventory Planning System 9903
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22354
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43006
121 JIT 2 18488
122 Job Production 27854
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9177
124 Kanban Squares 6871
125 Laid-Down Cost 10252
126 Lean Office 6157
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10882
128 Lee's Notation 8603
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14309
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37400
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9329
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7558
133 Logistics Channel 22967
134 Logistics Costs 26739
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6715
136 Manifest 10580
137 Marks and Numbers 12670
138 Material Planning 35208
139 Materials Management 26428
140 Milk Run 43193
141 Mini Land Bridge 14459
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9614
143 Modal Split 15489
144 Movement of Goods 19543
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31759
146 North West Corner Method 16902
147 Numeric Distribution 14282
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28613
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48558
150 Operational Efficiency 9981
151 Operational Objectives 13401
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18158
153 Operational Sustainability 28130
154 Operations Management 20916
155 Order Cancellation 10880
156 Order Cycle 18494
157 Order Cycle Time 23567
158 Order Fill Rate 34099
159 Order Fulfillment 6504
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10369
161 Parts Standardization 9358
162 PDCA Cycle 8084
163 Peak Load Pricing 13403
164 Perfect Order 13303
165 Physical Distribution 25023
166 Pick List 9886
167 Pipeline inventory 42444
168 Postponement 15334
169 Process Bottleneck 6332
170 Process Checklist Template 6961
171 Process Yield 20279
172 Product ID 15964
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10405
174 Production Capacity 27809
175 Production Orientation 25738
176 Production Planning 36779
177 Production Related Materials 7743
178 Production Scheduling 36201
179 Purchasing 22981
180 Quality Audit 7215
 
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