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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) 38276
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49743
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7622
84 Efficient Frontier 25495
85 Engineer-to-Order 31759
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16529
87 Erlang B Formula 9351
88 ETD 8338
89 Ex Works 7839
90 Exception Rate 13500
91 Exponential smoothing 9835
92 External Growth 10079
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9526
94 Field Services 7745
95 Field Warehouse 10476
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8770
97 Fishbone Diagram 14613
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27045
99 Flow Through Distribution 12315
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8186
101 FOB Destination 13037
102 Forward buying 30173
103 Freight Charge 10415
104 Freight Consolidation 7536
105 Gantt Chart 8292
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11739
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29596
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12688
109 Hub 23439
110 Idle Time 8074
111 Import/Export License 8727
112 In Bond Shipment 13963
113 Inbound Logistics 13591
114 Interstate System 11011
115 Inventory Costs 53645
116 Inventory in Transit 16538
117 Inventory Management 54819
118 Inventory Planning System 9876
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22310
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42748
121 JIT 2 18446
122 Job Production 27695
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9152
124 Kanban Squares 6842
125 Laid-Down Cost 10195
126 Lean Office 6130
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10863
128 Lee's Notation 8574
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14239
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37296
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9278
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7533
133 Logistics Channel 22923
134 Logistics Costs 26694
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6694
136 Manifest 10542
137 Marks and Numbers 12613
138 Material Planning 35113
139 Materials Management 26383
140 Milk Run 43121
141 Mini Land Bridge 14426
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9572
143 Modal Split 15430
144 Movement of Goods 19489
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31661
146 North West Corner Method 16875
147 Numeric Distribution 14237
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28560
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48460
150 Operational Efficiency 9949
151 Operational Objectives 13360
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18128
153 Operational Sustainability 28035
154 Operations Management 20798
155 Order Cancellation 10834
156 Order Cycle 18453
157 Order Cycle Time 23526
158 Order Fill Rate 34041
159 Order Fulfillment 6481
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10325
161 Parts Standardization 9326
162 PDCA Cycle 8060
163 Peak Load Pricing 13375
164 Perfect Order 13242
165 Physical Distribution 24953
166 Pick List 9848
167 Pipeline inventory 42378
168 Postponement 15298
169 Process Bottleneck 6306
170 Process Checklist Template 6938
171 Process Yield 20239
172 Product ID 15923
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10373
174 Production Capacity 27724
175 Production Orientation 25682
176 Production Planning 36634
177 Production Related Materials 7704
178 Production Scheduling 36075
179 Purchasing 22884
180 Quality Audit 7178
 
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