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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) 38088
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49235
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7497
84 Efficient Frontier 25201
85 Engineer-to-Order 31480
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16157
87 Erlang B Formula 9210
88 ETD 8192
89 Ex Works 7740
90 Exception Rate 13292
91 Exponential smoothing 9716
92 External Growth 9922
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9302
94 Field Services 7650
95 Field Warehouse 9795
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8585
97 Fishbone Diagram 14452
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26749
99 Flow Through Distribution 12157
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8034
101 FOB Destination 12851
102 Forward buying 29868
103 Freight Charge 10201
104 Freight Consolidation 7416
105 Gantt Chart 8191
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11562
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29352
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12538
109 Hub 23210
110 Idle Time 7951
111 Import/Export License 8585
112 In Bond Shipment 13747
113 Inbound Logistics 13380
114 Interstate System 10866
115 Inventory Costs 53147
116 Inventory in Transit 16257
117 Inventory Management 54248
118 Inventory Planning System 9673
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22097
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41966
121 JIT 2 18313
122 Job Production 27086
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8905
124 Kanban Squares 6725
125 Laid-Down Cost 10005
126 Lean Office 5907
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10785
128 Lee's Notation 8453
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14005
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36706
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9081
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7346
133 Logistics Channel 22717
134 Logistics Costs 26439
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6600
136 Manifest 10385
137 Marks and Numbers 12409
138 Material Planning 34840
139 Materials Management 26184
140 Milk Run 42775
141 Mini Land Bridge 14262
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9349
143 Modal Split 15196
144 Movement of Goods 19269
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31303
146 North West Corner Method 16741
147 Numeric Distribution 13996
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28320
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48104
150 Operational Efficiency 9812
151 Operational Objectives 13217
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18015
153 Operational Sustainability 27670
154 Operations Management 20275
155 Order Cancellation 10621
156 Order Cycle 18291
157 Order Cycle Time 23352
158 Order Fill Rate 33803
159 Order Fulfillment 6370
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10146
161 Parts Standardization 9185
162 PDCA Cycle 7891
163 Peak Load Pricing 13246
164 Perfect Order 12985
165 Physical Distribution 24748
166 Pick List 9713
167 Pipeline inventory 42157
168 Postponement 15138
169 Process Bottleneck 6159
170 Process Checklist Template 6813
171 Process Yield 20002
172 Product ID 15763
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10274
174 Production Capacity 27379
175 Production Orientation 25415
176 Production Planning 36081
177 Production Related Materials 7499
178 Production Scheduling 35493
179 Purchasing 22453
180 Quality Audit 7034
 
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