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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) 38080
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49212
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7494
84 Efficient Frontier 25194
85 Engineer-to-Order 31468
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16141
87 Erlang B Formula 9204
88 ETD 8185
89 Ex Works 7737
90 Exception Rate 13283
91 Exponential smoothing 9706
92 External Growth 9916
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9294
94 Field Services 7646
95 Field Warehouse 9784
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8578
97 Fishbone Diagram 14448
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26742
99 Flow Through Distribution 12153
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8029
101 FOB Destination 12844
102 Forward buying 29859
103 Freight Charge 10194
104 Freight Consolidation 7414
105 Gantt Chart 8188
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11555
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29344
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12531
109 Hub 23203
110 Idle Time 7943
111 Import/Export License 8583
112 In Bond Shipment 13741
113 Inbound Logistics 13371
114 Interstate System 10859
115 Inventory Costs 53126
116 Inventory in Transit 16250
117 Inventory Management 54229
118 Inventory Planning System 9669
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22095
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41936
121 JIT 2 18308
122 Job Production 27063
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8898
124 Kanban Squares 6720
125 Laid-Down Cost 9999
126 Lean Office 5902
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10784
128 Lee's Notation 8446
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13995
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36686
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9071
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7343
133 Logistics Channel 22708
134 Logistics Costs 26434
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6597
136 Manifest 10376
137 Marks and Numbers 12390
138 Material Planning 34832
139 Materials Management 26174
140 Milk Run 42765
141 Mini Land Bridge 14256
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9342
143 Modal Split 15186
144 Movement of Goods 19261
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31295
146 North West Corner Method 16739
147 Numeric Distribution 13989
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28313
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48091
150 Operational Efficiency 9803
151 Operational Objectives 13209
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18010
153 Operational Sustainability 27662
154 Operations Management 20252
155 Order Cancellation 10612
156 Order Cycle 18284
157 Order Cycle Time 23343
158 Order Fill Rate 33795
159 Order Fulfillment 6367
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10140
161 Parts Standardization 9179
162 PDCA Cycle 7883
163 Peak Load Pricing 13243
164 Perfect Order 12976
165 Physical Distribution 24738
166 Pick List 9707
167 Pipeline inventory 42142
168 Postponement 15133
169 Process Bottleneck 6149
170 Process Checklist Template 6801
171 Process Yield 19993
172 Product ID 15756
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10270
174 Production Capacity 27374
175 Production Orientation 25408
176 Production Planning 36067
177 Production Related Materials 7477
178 Production Scheduling 35474
179 Purchasing 22445
180 Quality Audit 7028
 
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