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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) 38296
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49789
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7636
84 Efficient Frontier 25523
85 Engineer-to-Order 31789
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16560
87 Erlang B Formula 9367
88 ETD 8347
89 Ex Works 7851
90 Exception Rate 13518
91 Exponential smoothing 9845
92 External Growth 10099
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9536
94 Field Services 7757
95 Field Warehouse 10548
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8798
97 Fishbone Diagram 14630
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27079
99 Flow Through Distribution 12336
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8199
101 FOB Destination 13062
102 Forward buying 30211
103 Freight Charge 10429
104 Freight Consolidation 7548
105 Gantt Chart 8307
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11756
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29615
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12713
109 Hub 23465
110 Idle Time 8087
111 Import/Export License 8742
112 In Bond Shipment 13992
113 Inbound Logistics 13616
114 Interstate System 11029
115 Inventory Costs 53729
116 Inventory in Transit 16563
117 Inventory Management 54889
118 Inventory Planning System 9890
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22331
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42849
121 JIT 2 18464
122 Job Production 27770
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9164
124 Kanban Squares 6857
125 Laid-Down Cost 10218
126 Lean Office 6143
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10870
128 Lee's Notation 8583
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14270
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37342
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9302
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7546
133 Logistics Channel 22944
134 Logistics Costs 26713
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6704
136 Manifest 10563
137 Marks and Numbers 12635
138 Material Planning 35159
139 Materials Management 26400
140 Milk Run 43152
141 Mini Land Bridge 14442
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9589
143 Modal Split 15457
144 Movement of Goods 19513
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31705
146 North West Corner Method 16886
147 Numeric Distribution 14253
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28586
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48503
150 Operational Efficiency 9965
151 Operational Objectives 13382
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18139
153 Operational Sustainability 28075
154 Operations Management 20860
155 Order Cancellation 10857
156 Order Cycle 18470
157 Order Cycle Time 23548
158 Order Fill Rate 34064
159 Order Fulfillment 6491
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10341
161 Parts Standardization 9341
162 PDCA Cycle 8069
163 Peak Load Pricing 13386
164 Perfect Order 13268
165 Physical Distribution 24985
166 Pick List 9868
167 Pipeline inventory 42412
168 Postponement 15313
169 Process Bottleneck 6320
170 Process Checklist Template 6948
171 Process Yield 20255
172 Product ID 15941
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10386
174 Production Capacity 27762
175 Production Orientation 25701
176 Production Planning 36703
177 Production Related Materials 7722
178 Production Scheduling 36132
179 Purchasing 22935
180 Quality Audit 7195
 
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