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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) 38286
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49768
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7629
84 Efficient Frontier 25503
85 Engineer-to-Order 31764
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16539
87 Erlang B Formula 9357
88 ETD 8342
89 Ex Works 7843
90 Exception Rate 13506
91 Exponential smoothing 9839
92 External Growth 10089
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9530
94 Field Services 7748
95 Field Warehouse 10503
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8782
97 Fishbone Diagram 14620
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27054
99 Flow Through Distribution 12322
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8188
101 FOB Destination 13044
102 Forward buying 30182
103 Freight Charge 10421
104 Freight Consolidation 7539
105 Gantt Chart 8298
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11745
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29601
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12696
109 Hub 23450
110 Idle Time 8077
111 Import/Export License 8731
112 In Bond Shipment 13968
113 Inbound Logistics 13599
114 Interstate System 11018
115 Inventory Costs 53682
116 Inventory in Transit 16547
117 Inventory Management 54838
118 Inventory Planning System 9882
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22316
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42780
121 JIT 2 18452
122 Job Production 27723
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9157
124 Kanban Squares 6849
125 Laid-Down Cost 10206
126 Lean Office 6132
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10866
128 Lee's Notation 8578
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14253
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37313
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9284
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7538
133 Logistics Channel 22929
134 Logistics Costs 26702
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6699
136 Manifest 10550
137 Marks and Numbers 12622
138 Material Planning 35123
139 Materials Management 26387
140 Milk Run 43136
141 Mini Land Bridge 14431
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9576
143 Modal Split 15444
144 Movement of Goods 19501
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31676
146 North West Corner Method 16879
147 Numeric Distribution 14242
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28570
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48481
150 Operational Efficiency 9956
151 Operational Objectives 13362
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18132
153 Operational Sustainability 28046
154 Operations Management 20822
155 Order Cancellation 10844
156 Order Cycle 18459
157 Order Cycle Time 23532
158 Order Fill Rate 34052
159 Order Fulfillment 6483
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10333
161 Parts Standardization 9330
162 PDCA Cycle 8062
163 Peak Load Pricing 13380
164 Perfect Order 13250
165 Physical Distribution 24959
166 Pick List 9856
167 Pipeline inventory 42388
168 Postponement 15304
169 Process Bottleneck 6311
170 Process Checklist Template 6940
171 Process Yield 20246
172 Product ID 15929
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10376
174 Production Capacity 27741
175 Production Orientation 25684
176 Production Planning 36657
177 Production Related Materials 7713
178 Production Scheduling 36095
179 Purchasing 22901
180 Quality Audit 7185
 
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