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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) 38199
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49526
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7569
84 Efficient Frontier 25374
85 Engineer-to-Order 31648
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16332
87 Erlang B Formula 9305
88 ETD 8282
89 Ex Works 7800
90 Exception Rate 13418
91 Exponential smoothing 9782
92 External Growth 10017
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9377
94 Field Services 7710
95 Field Warehouse 10239
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8704
97 Fishbone Diagram 14553
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26926
99 Flow Through Distribution 12258
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8122
101 FOB Destination 12967
102 Forward buying 30004
103 Freight Charge 10277
104 Freight Consolidation 7487
105 Gantt Chart 8254
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11669
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29498
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12627
109 Hub 23345
110 Idle Time 8021
111 Import/Export License 8664
112 In Bond Shipment 13874
113 Inbound Logistics 13514
114 Interstate System 10956
115 Inventory Costs 53430
116 Inventory in Transit 16372
117 Inventory Management 54566
118 Inventory Planning System 9740
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22229
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42458
121 JIT 2 18391
122 Job Production 27438
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9002
124 Kanban Squares 6793
125 Laid-Down Cost 10107
126 Lean Office 5985
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10831
128 Lee's Notation 8526
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14150
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37068
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9202
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7401
133 Logistics Channel 22830
134 Logistics Costs 26578
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6649
136 Manifest 10486
137 Marks and Numbers 12553
138 Material Planning 35006
139 Materials Management 26301
140 Milk Run 43003
141 Mini Land Bridge 14369
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9488
143 Modal Split 15350
144 Movement of Goods 19395
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31500
146 North West Corner Method 16823
147 Numeric Distribution 14148
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28469
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48319
150 Operational Efficiency 9899
151 Operational Objectives 13297
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18089
153 Operational Sustainability 27846
154 Operations Management 20568
155 Order Cancellation 10759
156 Order Cycle 18389
157 Order Cycle Time 23450
158 Order Fill Rate 33948
159 Order Fulfillment 6436
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10257
161 Parts Standardization 9269
162 PDCA Cycle 7939
163 Peak Load Pricing 13325
164 Perfect Order 13144
165 Physical Distribution 24860
166 Pick List 9795
167 Pipeline inventory 42293
168 Postponement 15246
169 Process Bottleneck 6248
170 Process Checklist Template 6887
171 Process Yield 20092
172 Product ID 15850
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10337
174 Production Capacity 27598
175 Production Orientation 25570
176 Production Planning 36420
177 Production Related Materials 7636
178 Production Scheduling 35893
179 Purchasing 22675
180 Quality Audit 7112
 
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