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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) 37903
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48704
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7372
84 Efficient Frontier 24885
85 Engineer-to-Order 31189
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15856
87 Erlang B Formula 9044
88 ETD 8052
89 Ex Works 7649
90 Exception Rate 13089
91 Exponential smoothing 9576
92 External Growth 9785
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9172
94 Field Services 7565
95 Field Warehouse 9642
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8370
97 Fishbone Diagram 14262
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26455
99 Flow Through Distribution 11997
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7882
101 FOB Destination 12631
102 Forward buying 29657
103 Freight Charge 10062
104 Freight Consolidation 7281
105 Gantt Chart 8086
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11355
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29112
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12394
109 Hub 22987
110 Idle Time 7830
111 Import/Export License 8438
112 In Bond Shipment 13559
113 Inbound Logistics 13166
114 Interstate System 10755
115 Inventory Costs 52594
116 Inventory in Transit 16042
117 Inventory Management 53709
118 Inventory Planning System 9544
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21839
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41146
121 JIT 2 18180
122 Job Production 26462
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8716
124 Kanban Squares 6581
125 Laid-Down Cost 9859
126 Lean Office 5771
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10716
128 Lee's Notation 8324
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13754
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36161
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8923
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7217
133 Logistics Channel 22512
134 Logistics Costs 26226
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6514
136 Manifest 10191
137 Marks and Numbers 12221
138 Material Planning 34488
139 Materials Management 25980
140 Milk Run 42322
141 Mini Land Bridge 14088
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9136
143 Modal Split 14908
144 Movement of Goods 19069
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30999
146 North West Corner Method 16614
147 Numeric Distribution 13793
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28084
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47768
150 Operational Efficiency 9634
151 Operational Objectives 13069
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17906
153 Operational Sustainability 27411
154 Operations Management 19753
155 Order Cancellation 10359
156 Order Cycle 18123
157 Order Cycle Time 23136
158 Order Fill Rate 33559
159 Order Fulfillment 6255
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10009
161 Parts Standardization 9041
162 PDCA Cycle 7793
163 Peak Load Pricing 13073
164 Perfect Order 12754
165 Physical Distribution 24493
166 Pick List 9565
167 Pipeline inventory 41867
168 Postponement 14979
169 Process Bottleneck 6003
170 Process Checklist Template 6687
171 Process Yield 19831
172 Product ID 15587
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10172
174 Production Capacity 26960
175 Production Orientation 25225
176 Production Planning 35445
177 Production Related Materials 7264
178 Production Scheduling 34939
179 Purchasing 22121
180 Quality Audit 6853
 
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