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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) 38240
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49658
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7600
84 Efficient Frontier 25439
85 Engineer-to-Order 31711
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16416
87 Erlang B Formula 9329
88 ETD 8314
89 Ex Works 7823
90 Exception Rate 13466
91 Exponential smoothing 9815
92 External Growth 10056
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9430
94 Field Services 7731
95 Field Warehouse 10391
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8739
97 Fishbone Diagram 14585
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26992
99 Flow Through Distribution 12293
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8161
101 FOB Destination 13004
102 Forward buying 30067
103 Freight Charge 10328
104 Freight Consolidation 7513
105 Gantt Chart 8278
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11714
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29558
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12663
109 Hub 23396
110 Idle Time 8055
111 Import/Export License 8699
112 In Bond Shipment 13926
113 Inbound Logistics 13561
114 Interstate System 10988
115 Inventory Costs 53561
116 Inventory in Transit 16444
117 Inventory Management 54683
118 Inventory Planning System 9788
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22270
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42611
121 JIT 2 18419
122 Job Production 27588
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9060
124 Kanban Squares 6815
125 Laid-Down Cost 10153
126 Lean Office 6044
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10845
128 Lee's Notation 8552
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14201
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37176
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9245
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7444
133 Logistics Channel 22877
134 Logistics Costs 26641
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6679
136 Manifest 10514
137 Marks and Numbers 12585
138 Material Planning 35066
139 Materials Management 26346
140 Milk Run 43073
141 Mini Land Bridge 14404
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9531
143 Modal Split 15395
144 Movement of Goods 19453
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31590
146 North West Corner Method 16849
147 Numeric Distribution 14201
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28523
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48392
150 Operational Efficiency 9928
151 Operational Objectives 13338
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18112
153 Operational Sustainability 27924
154 Operations Management 20651
155 Order Cancellation 10805
156 Order Cycle 18429
157 Order Cycle Time 23492
158 Order Fill Rate 33998
159 Order Fulfillment 6464
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10296
161 Parts Standardization 9300
162 PDCA Cycle 7981
163 Peak Load Pricing 13356
164 Perfect Order 13204
165 Physical Distribution 24912
166 Pick List 9829
167 Pipeline inventory 42342
168 Postponement 15278
169 Process Bottleneck 6277
170 Process Checklist Template 6918
171 Process Yield 20144
172 Product ID 15889
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10357
174 Production Capacity 27673
175 Production Orientation 25635
176 Production Planning 36537
177 Production Related Materials 7679
178 Production Scheduling 36002
179 Purchasing 22771
180 Quality Audit 7149
 
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