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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) 37950
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48847
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7401
84 Efficient Frontier 24965
85 Engineer-to-Order 31254
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15943
87 Erlang B Formula 9092
88 ETD 8082
89 Ex Works 7668
90 Exception Rate 13140
91 Exponential smoothing 9608
92 External Growth 9820
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9206
94 Field Services 7580
95 Field Warehouse 9684
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8427
97 Fishbone Diagram 14302
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26514
99 Flow Through Distribution 12040
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7922
101 FOB Destination 12676
102 Forward buying 29713
103 Freight Charge 10095
104 Freight Consolidation 7321
105 Gantt Chart 8112
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11414
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29174
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12423
109 Hub 23047
110 Idle Time 7862
111 Import/Export License 8477
112 In Bond Shipment 13610
113 Inbound Logistics 13211
114 Interstate System 10773
115 Inventory Costs 52749
116 Inventory in Transit 16097
117 Inventory Management 53837
118 Inventory Planning System 9580
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21920
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41373
121 JIT 2 18207
122 Job Production 26629
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8760
124 Kanban Squares 6617
125 Laid-Down Cost 9886
126 Lean Office 5800
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10734
128 Lee's Notation 8352
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13820
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36281
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8953
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7263
133 Logistics Channel 22563
134 Logistics Costs 26277
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6535
136 Manifest 10235
137 Marks and Numbers 12259
138 Material Planning 34573
139 Materials Management 26025
140 Milk Run 42431
141 Mini Land Bridge 14127
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9184
143 Modal Split 14979
144 Movement of Goods 19125
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31066
146 North West Corner Method 16644
147 Numeric Distribution 13845
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28141
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47850
150 Operational Efficiency 9678
151 Operational Objectives 13109
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17929
153 Operational Sustainability 27484
154 Operations Management 19873
155 Order Cancellation 10412
156 Order Cycle 18165
157 Order Cycle Time 23186
158 Order Fill Rate 33628
159 Order Fulfillment 6283
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10041
161 Parts Standardization 9074
162 PDCA Cycle 7817
163 Peak Load Pricing 13125
164 Perfect Order 12819
165 Physical Distribution 24555
166 Pick List 9603
167 Pipeline inventory 41942
168 Postponement 15021
169 Process Bottleneck 6048
170 Process Checklist Template 6715
171 Process Yield 19864
172 Product ID 15628
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10189
174 Production Capacity 27092
175 Production Orientation 25262
176 Production Planning 35626
177 Production Related Materials 7313
178 Production Scheduling 35083
179 Purchasing 22214
180 Quality Audit 6907
 
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