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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) 38371
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49997
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7690
84 Efficient Frontier 25632
85 Engineer-to-Order 31890
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16679
87 Erlang B Formula 9424
88 ETD 8400
89 Ex Works 7890
90 Exception Rate 13605
91 Exponential smoothing 9898
92 External Growth 10173
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9597
94 Field Services 7796
95 Field Warehouse 10777
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8895
97 Fishbone Diagram 14699
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27220
99 Flow Through Distribution 12411
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8267
101 FOB Destination 13150
102 Forward buying 30340
103 Freight Charge 10486
104 Freight Consolidation 7594
105 Gantt Chart 8349
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11834
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29705
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12776
109 Hub 23562
110 Idle Time 8140
111 Import/Export License 8808
112 In Bond Shipment 14074
113 Inbound Logistics 13688
114 Interstate System 11092
115 Inventory Costs 53946
116 Inventory in Transit 16644
117 Inventory Management 55078
118 Inventory Planning System 9946
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22418
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43176
121 JIT 2 18525
122 Job Production 28030
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9219
124 Kanban Squares 6921
125 Laid-Down Cost 10306
126 Lean Office 6204
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10900
128 Lee's Notation 8632
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14377
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37499
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9376
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7585
133 Logistics Channel 23016
134 Logistics Costs 26808
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6739
136 Manifest 10636
137 Marks and Numbers 12729
138 Material Planning 35282
139 Materials Management 26488
140 Milk Run 43280
141 Mini Land Bridge 14510
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9677
143 Modal Split 15544
144 Movement of Goods 19598
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31842
146 North West Corner Method 16937
147 Numeric Distribution 14336
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28678
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48676
150 Operational Efficiency 10020
151 Operational Objectives 13450
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18187
153 Operational Sustainability 28200
154 Operations Management 20999
155 Order Cancellation 10926
156 Order Cycle 18536
157 Order Cycle Time 23622
158 Order Fill Rate 34159
159 Order Fulfillment 6541
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10417
161 Parts Standardization 9394
162 PDCA Cycle 8113
163 Peak Load Pricing 13440
164 Perfect Order 13359
165 Physical Distribution 25092
166 Pick List 9925
167 Pipeline inventory 42516
168 Postponement 15376
169 Process Bottleneck 6379
170 Process Checklist Template 6995
171 Process Yield 20325
172 Product ID 16015
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10437
174 Production Capacity 27914
175 Production Orientation 25800
176 Production Planning 36929
177 Production Related Materials 7809
178 Production Scheduling 36310
179 Purchasing 23084
180 Quality Audit 7255
 
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