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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) 38434
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50137
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7726
84 Efficient Frontier 25715
85 Engineer-to-Order 31957
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16777
87 Erlang B Formula 9463
88 ETD 8435
89 Ex Works 7926
90 Exception Rate 13659
91 Exponential smoothing 9930
92 External Growth 10218
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9641
94 Field Services 7823
95 Field Warehouse 10945
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8955
97 Fishbone Diagram 14752
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27302
99 Flow Through Distribution 12463
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8314
101 FOB Destination 13204
102 Forward buying 30397
103 Freight Charge 10514
104 Freight Consolidation 7622
105 Gantt Chart 8373
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11898
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29755
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12821
109 Hub 23616
110 Idle Time 8169
111 Import/Export License 8836
112 In Bond Shipment 14115
113 Inbound Logistics 13737
114 Interstate System 11122
115 Inventory Costs 54056
116 Inventory in Transit 16711
117 Inventory Management 55224
118 Inventory Planning System 9981
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22491
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43361
121 JIT 2 18561
122 Job Production 28207
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9261
124 Kanban Squares 6963
125 Laid-Down Cost 10365
126 Lean Office 6241
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10917
128 Lee's Notation 8653
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14446
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37626
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9426
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7613
133 Logistics Channel 23063
134 Logistics Costs 26871
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6762
136 Manifest 10682
137 Marks and Numbers 12788
138 Material Planning 35350
139 Materials Management 26547
140 Milk Run 43361
141 Mini Land Bridge 14554
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9726
143 Modal Split 15591
144 Movement of Goods 19682
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31918
146 North West Corner Method 16968
147 Numeric Distribution 14386
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28742
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48795
150 Operational Efficiency 10052
151 Operational Objectives 13483
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18211
153 Operational Sustainability 28282
154 Operations Management 21090
155 Order Cancellation 10972
156 Order Cycle 18575
157 Order Cycle Time 23673
158 Order Fill Rate 34221
159 Order Fulfillment 6571
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10466
161 Parts Standardization 9420
162 PDCA Cycle 8132
163 Peak Load Pricing 13471
164 Perfect Order 13422
165 Physical Distribution 25159
166 Pick List 9967
167 Pipeline inventory 42578
168 Postponement 15436
169 Process Bottleneck 6412
170 Process Checklist Template 7016
171 Process Yield 20368
172 Product ID 16058
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10474
174 Production Capacity 28009
175 Production Orientation 25887
176 Production Planning 37065
177 Production Related Materials 7883
178 Production Scheduling 36428
179 Purchasing 23184
180 Quality Audit 7304
 
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