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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) 38437
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50140
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7727
84 Efficient Frontier 25716
85 Engineer-to-Order 31958
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16778
87 Erlang B Formula 9464
88 ETD 8439
89 Ex Works 7926
90 Exception Rate 13660
91 Exponential smoothing 9931
92 External Growth 10220
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9644
94 Field Services 7824
95 Field Warehouse 10951
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8957
97 Fishbone Diagram 14753
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27307
99 Flow Through Distribution 12465
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8315
101 FOB Destination 13206
102 Forward buying 30398
103 Freight Charge 10515
104 Freight Consolidation 7624
105 Gantt Chart 8373
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11898
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29756
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12823
109 Hub 23617
110 Idle Time 8170
111 Import/Export License 8839
112 In Bond Shipment 14115
113 Inbound Logistics 13738
114 Interstate System 11124
115 Inventory Costs 54062
116 Inventory in Transit 16713
117 Inventory Management 55227
118 Inventory Planning System 9981
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22492
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43371
121 JIT 2 18561
122 Job Production 28212
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9264
124 Kanban Squares 6964
125 Laid-Down Cost 10365
126 Lean Office 6241
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10917
128 Lee's Notation 8653
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14446
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37629
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9428
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7614
133 Logistics Channel 23063
134 Logistics Costs 26873
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6762
136 Manifest 10683
137 Marks and Numbers 12792
138 Material Planning 35353
139 Materials Management 26547
140 Milk Run 43361
141 Mini Land Bridge 14556
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9728
143 Modal Split 15593
144 Movement of Goods 19685
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31921
146 North West Corner Method 16971
147 Numeric Distribution 14386
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28744
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48797
150 Operational Efficiency 10055
151 Operational Objectives 13484
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18211
153 Operational Sustainability 28282
154 Operations Management 21093
155 Order Cancellation 10976
156 Order Cycle 18577
157 Order Cycle Time 23673
158 Order Fill Rate 34222
159 Order Fulfillment 6571
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10468
161 Parts Standardization 9422
162 PDCA Cycle 8132
163 Peak Load Pricing 13472
164 Perfect Order 13423
165 Physical Distribution 25160
166 Pick List 9968
167 Pipeline inventory 42581
168 Postponement 15440
169 Process Bottleneck 6413
170 Process Checklist Template 7017
171 Process Yield 20369
172 Product ID 16060
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10475
174 Production Capacity 28012
175 Production Orientation 25889
176 Production Planning 37068
177 Production Related Materials 7884
178 Production Scheduling 36429
179 Purchasing 23186
180 Quality Audit 7306
 
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