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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) 38205
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49554
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7574
84 Efficient Frontier 25390
85 Engineer-to-Order 31657
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16349
87 Erlang B Formula 9308
88 ETD 8289
89 Ex Works 7803
90 Exception Rate 13428
91 Exponential smoothing 9789
92 External Growth 10023
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9386
94 Field Services 7713
95 Field Warehouse 10283
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8708
97 Fishbone Diagram 14559
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26936
99 Flow Through Distribution 12265
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8130
101 FOB Destination 12976
102 Forward buying 30016
103 Freight Charge 10280
104 Freight Consolidation 7491
105 Gantt Chart 8258
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11679
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29508
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12634
109 Hub 23353
110 Idle Time 8026
111 Import/Export License 8671
112 In Bond Shipment 13883
113 Inbound Logistics 13522
114 Interstate System 10961
115 Inventory Costs 53455
116 Inventory in Transit 16383
117 Inventory Management 54584
118 Inventory Planning System 9747
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22237
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42489
121 JIT 2 18394
122 Job Production 27476
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9009
124 Kanban Squares 6799
125 Laid-Down Cost 10115
126 Lean Office 5993
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10833
128 Lee's Notation 8530
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14158
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37094
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9211
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7406
133 Logistics Channel 22842
134 Logistics Costs 26591
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6653
136 Manifest 10489
137 Marks and Numbers 12560
138 Material Planning 35015
139 Materials Management 26309
140 Milk Run 43020
141 Mini Land Bridge 14374
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9496
143 Modal Split 15364
144 Movement of Goods 19405
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31521
146 North West Corner Method 16825
147 Numeric Distribution 14155
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28483
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48330
150 Operational Efficiency 9905
151 Operational Objectives 13305
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18095
153 Operational Sustainability 27858
154 Operations Management 20584
155 Order Cancellation 10764
156 Order Cycle 18399
157 Order Cycle Time 23456
158 Order Fill Rate 33958
159 Order Fulfillment 6443
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10271
161 Parts Standardization 9273
162 PDCA Cycle 7942
163 Peak Load Pricing 13329
164 Perfect Order 13155
165 Physical Distribution 24869
166 Pick List 9803
167 Pipeline inventory 42303
168 Postponement 15250
169 Process Bottleneck 6251
170 Process Checklist Template 6892
171 Process Yield 20097
172 Product ID 15858
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10342
174 Production Capacity 27614
175 Production Orientation 25580
176 Production Planning 36451
177 Production Related Materials 7644
178 Production Scheduling 35916
179 Purchasing 22695
180 Quality Audit 7123
 
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