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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) 38102
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49270
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7505
84 Efficient Frontier 25222
85 Engineer-to-Order 31501
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16182
87 Erlang B Formula 9220
88 ETD 8205
89 Ex Works 7745
90 Exception Rate 13308
91 Exponential smoothing 9724
92 External Growth 9935
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9313
94 Field Services 7655
95 Field Warehouse 9822
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8602
97 Fishbone Diagram 14462
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26776
99 Flow Through Distribution 12168
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8042
101 FOB Destination 12868
102 Forward buying 29888
103 Freight Charge 10207
104 Freight Consolidation 7423
105 Gantt Chart 8201
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11575
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29367
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12547
109 Hub 23228
110 Idle Time 7957
111 Import/Export License 8595
112 In Bond Shipment 13756
113 Inbound Logistics 13398
114 Interstate System 10877
115 Inventory Costs 53176
116 Inventory in Transit 16276
117 Inventory Management 54301
118 Inventory Planning System 9682
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22114
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42023
121 JIT 2 18318
122 Job Production 27139
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8918
124 Kanban Squares 6735
125 Laid-Down Cost 10012
126 Lean Office 5920
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10790
128 Lee's Notation 8461
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14025
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36759
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9095
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7352
133 Logistics Channel 22729
134 Logistics Costs 26461
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6608
136 Manifest 10397
137 Marks and Numbers 12425
138 Material Planning 34873
139 Materials Management 26201
140 Milk Run 42805
141 Mini Land Bridge 14272
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9369
143 Modal Split 15219
144 Movement of Goods 19284
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31324
146 North West Corner Method 16753
147 Numeric Distribution 14011
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28342
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48133
150 Operational Efficiency 9823
151 Operational Objectives 13228
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18024
153 Operational Sustainability 27694
154 Operations Management 20307
155 Order Cancellation 10644
156 Order Cycle 18306
157 Order Cycle Time 23368
158 Order Fill Rate 33825
159 Order Fulfillment 6379
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10159
161 Parts Standardization 9193
162 PDCA Cycle 7897
163 Peak Load Pricing 13253
164 Perfect Order 13004
165 Physical Distribution 24760
166 Pick List 9722
167 Pipeline inventory 42169
168 Postponement 15149
169 Process Bottleneck 6171
170 Process Checklist Template 6822
171 Process Yield 20010
172 Product ID 15770
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10283
174 Production Capacity 27403
175 Production Orientation 25431
176 Production Planning 36128
177 Production Related Materials 7516
178 Production Scheduling 35537
179 Purchasing 22479
180 Quality Audit 7042
 
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