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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) 38292
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49781
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7632
84 Efficient Frontier 25512
85 Engineer-to-Order 31779
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16551
87 Erlang B Formula 9362
88 ETD 8344
89 Ex Works 7848
90 Exception Rate 13510
91 Exponential smoothing 9843
92 External Growth 10093
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9534
94 Field Services 7753
95 Field Warehouse 10531
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8789
97 Fishbone Diagram 14626
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27068
99 Flow Through Distribution 12330
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8197
101 FOB Destination 13055
102 Forward buying 30194
103 Freight Charge 10424
104 Freight Consolidation 7541
105 Gantt Chart 8303
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11749
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29611
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12700
109 Hub 23459
110 Idle Time 8082
111 Import/Export License 8736
112 In Bond Shipment 13981
113 Inbound Logistics 13612
114 Interstate System 11023
115 Inventory Costs 53707
116 Inventory in Transit 16555
117 Inventory Management 54864
118 Inventory Planning System 9887
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22324
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42822
121 JIT 2 18459
122 Job Production 27748
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9162
124 Kanban Squares 6854
125 Laid-Down Cost 10209
126 Lean Office 6138
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10867
128 Lee's Notation 8580
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14264
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37329
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9292
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7544
133 Logistics Channel 22936
134 Logistics Costs 26707
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6702
136 Manifest 10558
137 Marks and Numbers 12628
138 Material Planning 35142
139 Materials Management 26393
140 Milk Run 43142
141 Mini Land Bridge 14436
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9585
143 Modal Split 15453
144 Movement of Goods 19506
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31692
146 North West Corner Method 16882
147 Numeric Distribution 14248
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28583
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48491
150 Operational Efficiency 9962
151 Operational Objectives 13371
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18136
153 Operational Sustainability 28063
154 Operations Management 20842
155 Order Cancellation 10849
156 Order Cycle 18465
157 Order Cycle Time 23541
158 Order Fill Rate 34057
159 Order Fulfillment 6488
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10338
161 Parts Standardization 9337
162 PDCA Cycle 8066
163 Peak Load Pricing 13384
164 Perfect Order 13262
165 Physical Distribution 24972
166 Pick List 9861
167 Pipeline inventory 42398
168 Postponement 15309
169 Process Bottleneck 6316
170 Process Checklist Template 6944
171 Process Yield 20252
172 Product ID 15936
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10380
174 Production Capacity 27754
175 Production Orientation 25691
176 Production Planning 36684
177 Production Related Materials 7719
178 Production Scheduling 36117
179 Purchasing 22920
180 Quality Audit 7190
 
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