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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) 38258
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49709
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7611
84 Efficient Frontier 25472
85 Engineer-to-Order 31731
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16497
87 Erlang B Formula 9343
88 ETD 8326
89 Ex Works 7832
90 Exception Rate 13486
91 Exponential smoothing 9828
92 External Growth 10072
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9500
94 Field Services 7742
95 Field Warehouse 10439
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8755
97 Fishbone Diagram 14603
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27019
99 Flow Through Distribution 12305
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8172
101 FOB Destination 13027
102 Forward buying 30143
103 Freight Charge 10398
104 Freight Consolidation 7528
105 Gantt Chart 8288
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11729
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29578
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12678
109 Hub 23423
110 Idle Time 8067
111 Import/Export License 8715
112 In Bond Shipment 13943
113 Inbound Logistics 13578
114 Interstate System 10999
115 Inventory Costs 53613
116 Inventory in Transit 16520
117 Inventory Management 54780
118 Inventory Planning System 9857
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22289
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42695
121 JIT 2 18437
122 Job Production 27650
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9131
124 Kanban Squares 6829
125 Laid-Down Cost 10181
126 Lean Office 6116
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10857
128 Lee's Notation 8567
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14221
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37262
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9267
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7516
133 Logistics Channel 22902
134 Logistics Costs 26671
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6685
136 Manifest 10529
137 Marks and Numbers 12599
138 Material Planning 35098
139 Materials Management 26368
140 Milk Run 43100
141 Mini Land Bridge 14416
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9558
143 Modal Split 15416
144 Movement of Goods 19475
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31628
146 North West Corner Method 16861
147 Numeric Distribution 14221
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28545
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48435
150 Operational Efficiency 9943
151 Operational Objectives 13353
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18124
153 Operational Sustainability 28000
154 Operations Management 20749
155 Order Cancellation 10819
156 Order Cycle 18445
157 Order Cycle Time 23512
158 Order Fill Rate 34025
159 Order Fulfillment 6471
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10313
161 Parts Standardization 9314
162 PDCA Cycle 8049
163 Peak Load Pricing 13370
164 Perfect Order 13228
165 Physical Distribution 24942
166 Pick List 9843
167 Pipeline inventory 42361
168 Postponement 15292
169 Process Bottleneck 6297
170 Process Checklist Template 6929
171 Process Yield 20224
172 Product ID 15910
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10369
174 Production Capacity 27702
175 Production Orientation 25665
176 Production Planning 36599
177 Production Related Materials 7696
178 Production Scheduling 36047
179 Purchasing 22854
180 Quality Audit 7164
 
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