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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) 38404
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50074
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7714
84 Efficient Frontier 25676
85 Engineer-to-Order 31930
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16729
87 Erlang B Formula 9448
88 ETD 8421
89 Ex Works 7914
90 Exception Rate 13641
91 Exponential smoothing 9919
92 External Growth 10199
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9623
94 Field Services 7809
95 Field Warehouse 10882
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8930
97 Fishbone Diagram 14729
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27273
99 Flow Through Distribution 12438
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8294
101 FOB Destination 13173
102 Forward buying 30368
103 Freight Charge 10501
104 Freight Consolidation 7607
105 Gantt Chart 8360
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11867
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29730
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12802
109 Hub 23588
110 Idle Time 8158
111 Import/Export License 8822
112 In Bond Shipment 14092
113 Inbound Logistics 13713
114 Interstate System 11109
115 Inventory Costs 54011
116 Inventory in Transit 16683
117 Inventory Management 55161
118 Inventory Planning System 9963
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22462
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43267
121 JIT 2 18546
122 Job Production 28127
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9245
124 Kanban Squares 6947
125 Laid-Down Cost 10339
126 Lean Office 6223
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10909
128 Lee's Notation 8642
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14418
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37568
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9407
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7600
133 Logistics Channel 23042
134 Logistics Costs 26844
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6751
136 Manifest 10667
137 Marks and Numbers 12771
138 Material Planning 35321
139 Materials Management 26521
140 Milk Run 43328
141 Mini Land Bridge 14536
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9704
143 Modal Split 15569
144 Movement of Goods 19632
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31887
146 North West Corner Method 16954
147 Numeric Distribution 14363
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28719
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48751
150 Operational Efficiency 10040
151 Operational Objectives 13470
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18198
153 Operational Sustainability 28245
154 Operations Management 21049
155 Order Cancellation 10951
156 Order Cycle 18558
157 Order Cycle Time 23648
158 Order Fill Rate 34190
159 Order Fulfillment 6561
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10448
161 Parts Standardization 9411
162 PDCA Cycle 8123
163 Peak Load Pricing 13459
164 Perfect Order 13395
165 Physical Distribution 25130
166 Pick List 9949
167 Pipeline inventory 42547
168 Postponement 15405
169 Process Bottleneck 6397
170 Process Checklist Template 7007
171 Process Yield 20349
172 Product ID 16041
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10453
174 Production Capacity 27961
175 Production Orientation 25851
176 Production Planning 37006
177 Production Related Materials 7853
178 Production Scheduling 36380
179 Purchasing 23136
180 Quality Audit 7280
 
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