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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) 38180
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49476
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7558
84 Efficient Frontier 25346
85 Engineer-to-Order 31616
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16302
87 Erlang B Formula 9286
88 ETD 8269
89 Ex Works 7789
90 Exception Rate 13400
91 Exponential smoothing 9771
92 External Growth 10001
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9365
94 Field Services 7700
95 Field Warehouse 10141
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8685
97 Fishbone Diagram 14532
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26885
99 Flow Through Distribution 12243
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8104
101 FOB Destination 12951
102 Forward buying 29977
103 Freight Charge 10262
104 Freight Consolidation 7476
105 Gantt Chart 8239
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11650
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29467
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12613
109 Hub 23320
110 Idle Time 8006
111 Import/Export License 8653
112 In Bond Shipment 13842
113 Inbound Logistics 13486
114 Interstate System 10940
115 Inventory Costs 53375
116 Inventory in Transit 16350
117 Inventory Management 54511
118 Inventory Planning System 9730
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22207
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42364
121 JIT 2 18376
122 Job Production 27375
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8984
124 Kanban Squares 6779
125 Laid-Down Cost 10087
126 Lean Office 5969
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10824
128 Lee's Notation 8514
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14120
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37006
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9178
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7394
133 Logistics Channel 22810
134 Logistics Costs 26552
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6640
136 Manifest 10466
137 Marks and Numbers 12528
138 Material Planning 34986
139 Materials Management 26282
140 Milk Run 42955
141 Mini Land Bridge 14348
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9462
143 Modal Split 15331
144 Movement of Goods 19369
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31450
146 North West Corner Method 16807
147 Numeric Distribution 14121
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28445
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48281
150 Operational Efficiency 9882
151 Operational Objectives 13284
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18079
153 Operational Sustainability 27812
154 Operations Management 20518
155 Order Cancellation 10738
156 Order Cycle 18373
157 Order Cycle Time 23431
158 Order Fill Rate 33923
159 Order Fulfillment 6425
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10230
161 Parts Standardization 9253
162 PDCA Cycle 7933
163 Peak Load Pricing 13309
164 Perfect Order 13119
165 Physical Distribution 24841
166 Pick List 9781
167 Pipeline inventory 42266
168 Postponement 15226
169 Process Bottleneck 6233
170 Process Checklist Template 6876
171 Process Yield 20073
172 Product ID 15831
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10330
174 Production Capacity 27549
175 Production Orientation 25544
176 Production Planning 36357
177 Production Related Materials 7612
178 Production Scheduling 35821
179 Purchasing 22626
180 Quality Audit 7098
 
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