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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) 38284
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49758
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7624
84 Efficient Frontier 25500
85 Engineer-to-Order 31764
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16535
87 Erlang B Formula 9353
88 ETD 8341
89 Ex Works 7842
90 Exception Rate 13503
91 Exponential smoothing 9837
92 External Growth 10087
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9529
94 Field Services 7748
95 Field Warehouse 10491
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8775
97 Fishbone Diagram 14618
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27049
99 Flow Through Distribution 12319
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8187
101 FOB Destination 13041
102 Forward buying 30179
103 Freight Charge 10418
104 Freight Consolidation 7538
105 Gantt Chart 8294
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11741
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29599
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12694
109 Hub 23444
110 Idle Time 8076
111 Import/Export License 8730
112 In Bond Shipment 13967
113 Inbound Logistics 13593
114 Interstate System 11015
115 Inventory Costs 53664
116 Inventory in Transit 16544
117 Inventory Management 54833
118 Inventory Planning System 9879
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22314
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42764
121 JIT 2 18450
122 Job Production 27715
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9156
124 Kanban Squares 6845
125 Laid-Down Cost 10202
126 Lean Office 6132
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10863
128 Lee's Notation 8575
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14249
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37305
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9282
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7537
133 Logistics Channel 22926
134 Logistics Costs 26699
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6696
136 Manifest 10547
137 Marks and Numbers 12618
138 Material Planning 35117
139 Materials Management 26386
140 Milk Run 43132
141 Mini Land Bridge 14427
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9574
143 Modal Split 15439
144 Movement of Goods 19499
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31668
146 North West Corner Method 16879
147 Numeric Distribution 14241
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28567
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48473
150 Operational Efficiency 9954
151 Operational Objectives 13361
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18129
153 Operational Sustainability 28041
154 Operations Management 20812
155 Order Cancellation 10838
156 Order Cycle 18457
157 Order Cycle Time 23529
158 Order Fill Rate 34048
159 Order Fulfillment 6482
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10331
161 Parts Standardization 9327
162 PDCA Cycle 8061
163 Peak Load Pricing 13378
164 Perfect Order 13246
165 Physical Distribution 24955
166 Pick List 9854
167 Pipeline inventory 42382
168 Postponement 15301
169 Process Bottleneck 6309
170 Process Checklist Template 6938
171 Process Yield 20243
172 Product ID 15927
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10375
174 Production Capacity 27735
175 Production Orientation 25684
176 Production Planning 36647
177 Production Related Materials 7707
178 Production Scheduling 36086
179 Purchasing 22894
180 Quality Audit 7182
 
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