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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) 37940
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48816
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7396
84 Efficient Frontier 24945
85 Engineer-to-Order 31237
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15920
87 Erlang B Formula 9081
88 ETD 8072
89 Ex Works 7662
90 Exception Rate 13126
91 Exponential smoothing 9597
92 External Growth 9812
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9191
94 Field Services 7578
95 Field Warehouse 9674
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8409
97 Fishbone Diagram 14295
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26499
99 Flow Through Distribution 12031
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7910
101 FOB Destination 12668
102 Forward buying 29695
103 Freight Charge 10086
104 Freight Consolidation 7311
105 Gantt Chart 8103
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11398
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29153
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12413
109 Hub 23035
110 Idle Time 7855
111 Import/Export License 8467
112 In Bond Shipment 13596
113 Inbound Logistics 13200
114 Interstate System 10770
115 Inventory Costs 52714
116 Inventory in Transit 16075
117 Inventory Management 53810
118 Inventory Planning System 9570
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21898
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41318
121 JIT 2 18197
122 Job Production 26583
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8748
124 Kanban Squares 6608
125 Laid-Down Cost 9879
126 Lean Office 5790
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10728
128 Lee's Notation 8343
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13803
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36250
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8943
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7252
133 Logistics Channel 22548
134 Logistics Costs 26267
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6527
136 Manifest 10224
137 Marks and Numbers 12250
138 Material Planning 34543
139 Materials Management 26012
140 Milk Run 42403
141 Mini Land Bridge 14118
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9167
143 Modal Split 14959
144 Movement of Goods 19109
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31046
146 North West Corner Method 16636
147 Numeric Distribution 13830
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28125
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47831
150 Operational Efficiency 9667
151 Operational Objectives 13098
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17924
153 Operational Sustainability 27463
154 Operations Management 19842
155 Order Cancellation 10399
156 Order Cycle 18156
157 Order Cycle Time 23175
158 Order Fill Rate 33611
159 Order Fulfillment 6275
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10033
161 Parts Standardization 9064
162 PDCA Cycle 7809
163 Peak Load Pricing 13110
164 Perfect Order 12799
165 Physical Distribution 24539
166 Pick List 9595
167 Pipeline inventory 41924
168 Postponement 15015
169 Process Bottleneck 6035
170 Process Checklist Template 6706
171 Process Yield 19853
172 Product ID 15619
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10183
174 Production Capacity 27045
175 Production Orientation 25254
176 Production Planning 35581
177 Production Related Materials 7303
178 Production Scheduling 35048
179 Purchasing 22190
180 Quality Audit 6891
 
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