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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) 38146
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49380
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7530
84 Efficient Frontier 25286
85 Engineer-to-Order 31564
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16249
87 Erlang B Formula 9253
88 ETD 8239
89 Ex Works 7770
90 Exception Rate 13349
91 Exponential smoothing 9750
92 External Growth 9963
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9341
94 Field Services 7678
95 Field Warehouse 9947
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8645
97 Fishbone Diagram 14504
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26832
99 Flow Through Distribution 12205
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8075
101 FOB Destination 12918
102 Forward buying 29931
103 Freight Charge 10237
104 Freight Consolidation 7448
105 Gantt Chart 8219
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11616
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29415
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12579
109 Hub 23275
110 Idle Time 7982
111 Import/Export License 8623
112 In Bond Shipment 13798
113 Inbound Logistics 13445
114 Interstate System 10910
115 Inventory Costs 53288
116 Inventory in Transit 16310
117 Inventory Management 54424
118 Inventory Planning System 9711
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22158
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42205
121 JIT 2 18347
122 Job Production 27268
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8952
124 Kanban Squares 6756
125 Laid-Down Cost 10052
126 Lean Office 5947
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10806
128 Lee's Notation 8491
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14075
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36893
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9141
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7373
133 Logistics Channel 22768
134 Logistics Costs 26504
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6626
136 Manifest 10434
137 Marks and Numbers 12479
138 Material Planning 34932
139 Materials Management 26239
140 Milk Run 42881
141 Mini Land Bridge 14316
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9411
143 Modal Split 15278
144 Movement of Goods 19333
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31391
146 North West Corner Method 16779
147 Numeric Distribution 14069
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28402
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48209
150 Operational Efficiency 9852
151 Operational Objectives 13255
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18056
153 Operational Sustainability 27754
154 Operations Management 20434
155 Order Cancellation 10697
156 Order Cycle 18342
157 Order Cycle Time 23405
158 Order Fill Rate 33879
159 Order Fulfillment 6399
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10196
161 Parts Standardization 9223
162 PDCA Cycle 7917
163 Peak Load Pricing 13286
164 Perfect Order 13063
165 Physical Distribution 24801
166 Pick List 9754
167 Pipeline inventory 42218
168 Postponement 15192
169 Process Bottleneck 6203
170 Process Checklist Template 6845
171 Process Yield 20045
172 Product ID 15801
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10308
174 Production Capacity 27473
175 Production Orientation 25490
176 Production Planning 36234
177 Production Related Materials 7577
178 Production Scheduling 35653
179 Purchasing 22559
180 Quality Audit 7067
 
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