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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) 38303
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49822
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7641
84 Efficient Frontier 25549
85 Engineer-to-Order 31806
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16578
87 Erlang B Formula 9376
88 ETD 8354
89 Ex Works 7857
90 Exception Rate 13533
91 Exponential smoothing 9848
92 External Growth 10109
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9545
94 Field Services 7763
95 Field Warehouse 10580
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8814
97 Fishbone Diagram 14641
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27106
99 Flow Through Distribution 12347
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8204
101 FOB Destination 13078
102 Forward buying 30240
103 Freight Charge 10435
104 Freight Consolidation 7557
105 Gantt Chart 8314
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11766
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29630
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12724
109 Hub 23480
110 Idle Time 8096
111 Import/Export License 8749
112 In Bond Shipment 14003
113 Inbound Logistics 13625
114 Interstate System 11034
115 Inventory Costs 53754
116 Inventory in Transit 16571
117 Inventory Management 54918
118 Inventory Planning System 9897
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22343
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42935
121 JIT 2 18474
122 Job Production 27816
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9169
124 Kanban Squares 6861
125 Laid-Down Cost 10236
126 Lean Office 6146
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10873
128 Lee's Notation 8590
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14287
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37375
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9312
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7549
133 Logistics Channel 22955
134 Logistics Costs 26728
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6711
136 Manifest 10570
137 Marks and Numbers 12649
138 Material Planning 35184
139 Materials Management 26412
140 Milk Run 43173
141 Mini Land Bridge 14449
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9602
143 Modal Split 15475
144 Movement of Goods 19527
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31735
146 North West Corner Method 16895
147 Numeric Distribution 14267
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28601
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48525
150 Operational Efficiency 9973
151 Operational Objectives 13388
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18149
153 Operational Sustainability 28103
154 Operations Management 20894
155 Order Cancellation 10865
156 Order Cycle 18480
157 Order Cycle Time 23555
158 Order Fill Rate 34082
159 Order Fulfillment 6496
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10352
161 Parts Standardization 9349
162 PDCA Cycle 8074
163 Peak Load Pricing 13394
164 Perfect Order 13285
165 Physical Distribution 25006
166 Pick List 9875
167 Pipeline inventory 42426
168 Postponement 15324
169 Process Bottleneck 6323
170 Process Checklist Template 6952
171 Process Yield 20266
172 Product ID 15951
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10395
174 Production Capacity 27786
175 Production Orientation 25716
176 Production Planning 36740
177 Production Related Materials 7732
178 Production Scheduling 36169
179 Purchasing 22956
180 Quality Audit 7203
 
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