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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) 38207
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49560
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7574
84 Efficient Frontier 25394
85 Engineer-to-Order 31662
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16351
87 Erlang B Formula 9309
88 ETD 8290
89 Ex Works 7803
90 Exception Rate 13432
91 Exponential smoothing 9791
92 External Growth 10025
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9390
94 Field Services 7714
95 Field Warehouse 10291
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8710
97 Fishbone Diagram 14560
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26941
99 Flow Through Distribution 12266
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8131
101 FOB Destination 12978
102 Forward buying 30017
103 Freight Charge 10281
104 Freight Consolidation 7491
105 Gantt Chart 8259
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11681
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29514
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12636
109 Hub 23356
110 Idle Time 8028
111 Import/Export License 8674
112 In Bond Shipment 13885
113 Inbound Logistics 13528
114 Interstate System 10962
115 Inventory Costs 53462
116 Inventory in Transit 16385
117 Inventory Management 54589
118 Inventory Planning System 9747
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22241
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42497
121 JIT 2 18396
122 Job Production 27487
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9012
124 Kanban Squares 6801
125 Laid-Down Cost 10118
126 Lean Office 5996
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10833
128 Lee's Notation 8534
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14162
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37098
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9212
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7406
133 Logistics Channel 22846
134 Logistics Costs 26596
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6656
136 Manifest 10491
137 Marks and Numbers 12562
138 Material Planning 35020
139 Materials Management 26310
140 Milk Run 43022
141 Mini Land Bridge 14376
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9497
143 Modal Split 15366
144 Movement of Goods 19409
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31524
146 North West Corner Method 16826
147 Numeric Distribution 14158
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28486
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48335
150 Operational Efficiency 9906
151 Operational Objectives 13308
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18095
153 Operational Sustainability 27861
154 Operations Management 20586
155 Order Cancellation 10767
156 Order Cycle 18402
157 Order Cycle Time 23459
158 Order Fill Rate 33961
159 Order Fulfillment 6444
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10273
161 Parts Standardization 9274
162 PDCA Cycle 7942
163 Peak Load Pricing 13330
164 Perfect Order 13160
165 Physical Distribution 24872
166 Pick List 9804
167 Pipeline inventory 42308
168 Postponement 15251
169 Process Bottleneck 6252
170 Process Checklist Template 6892
171 Process Yield 20099
172 Product ID 15860
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10342
174 Production Capacity 27617
175 Production Orientation 25583
176 Production Planning 36455
177 Production Related Materials 7648
178 Production Scheduling 35922
179 Purchasing 22700
180 Quality Audit 7123
 
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