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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) 7631
84 Efficient Frontier 25510
85 Engineer-to-Order 31778
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16550
87 Erlang B Formula 9362
88 ETD 8344
89 Ex Works 7847
90 Exception Rate 13510
91 Exponential smoothing 9842
92 External Growth 10093
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9533
94 Field Services 7752
95 Field Warehouse 10529
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8788
97 Fishbone Diagram 14625
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27066
99 Flow Through Distribution 12329
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8196
101 FOB Destination 13053
102 Forward buying 30192
103 Freight Charge 10423
104 Freight Consolidation 7541
105 Gantt Chart 8302
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11748
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29610
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12700
109 Hub 23458
110 Idle Time 8082
111 Import/Export License 8736
112 In Bond Shipment 13980
113 Inbound Logistics 13609
114 Interstate System 11023
115 Inventory Costs 53705
116 Inventory in Transit 16554
117 Inventory Management 54858
118 Inventory Planning System 9886
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22322
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42815
121 JIT 2 18458
122 Job Production 27747
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9161
124 Kanban Squares 6854
125 Laid-Down Cost 10208
126 Lean Office 6138
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10867
128 Lee's Notation 8580
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14262
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37326
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9291
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7543
133 Logistics Channel 22935
134 Logistics Costs 26707
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6702
136 Manifest 10556
137 Marks and Numbers 12627
138 Material Planning 35140
139 Materials Management 26391
140 Milk Run 43141
141 Mini Land Bridge 14435
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9583
143 Modal Split 15453
144 Movement of Goods 19505
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31692
146 North West Corner Method 16882
147 Numeric Distribution 14248
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28582
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48489
150 Operational Efficiency 9961
151 Operational Objectives 13371
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18135
153 Operational Sustainability 28058
154 Operations Management 20837
155 Order Cancellation 10849
156 Order Cycle 18463
157 Order Cycle Time 23539
158 Order Fill Rate 34057
159 Order Fulfillment 6487
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10337
161 Parts Standardization 9336
162 PDCA Cycle 8066
163 Peak Load Pricing 13383
164 Perfect Order 13260
165 Physical Distribution 24971
166 Pick List 9860
167 Pipeline inventory 42398
168 Postponement 15309
169 Process Bottleneck 6316
170 Process Checklist Template 6943
171 Process Yield 20251
172 Product ID 15935
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10379
174 Production Capacity 27752
175 Production Orientation 25691
176 Production Planning 36680
177 Production Related Materials 7718
178 Production Scheduling 36115
179 Purchasing 22918
180 Quality Audit 7189
 
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