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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) 37909
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48725
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7375
84 Efficient Frontier 24894
85 Engineer-to-Order 31197
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15869
87 Erlang B Formula 9047
88 ETD 8054
89 Ex Works 7650
90 Exception Rate 13092
91 Exponential smoothing 9579
92 External Growth 9787
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9176
94 Field Services 7567
95 Field Warehouse 9649
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8375
97 Fishbone Diagram 14270
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26461
99 Flow Through Distribution 12000
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7889
101 FOB Destination 12637
102 Forward buying 29663
103 Freight Charge 10064
104 Freight Consolidation 7285
105 Gantt Chart 8088
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11361
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29120
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12397
109 Hub 22994
110 Idle Time 7834
111 Import/Export License 8445
112 In Bond Shipment 13565
113 Inbound Logistics 13169
114 Interstate System 10757
115 Inventory Costs 52615
116 Inventory in Transit 16047
117 Inventory Management 53725
118 Inventory Planning System 9548
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21849
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41170
121 JIT 2 18181
122 Job Production 26483
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8722
124 Kanban Squares 6584
125 Laid-Down Cost 9862
126 Lean Office 5773
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10717
128 Lee's Notation 8326
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13761
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36174
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8926
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7221
133 Logistics Channel 22518
134 Logistics Costs 26231
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6516
136 Manifest 10194
137 Marks and Numbers 12224
138 Material Planning 34501
139 Materials Management 25983
140 Milk Run 42332
141 Mini Land Bridge 14094
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9141
143 Modal Split 14914
144 Movement of Goods 19076
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31007
146 North West Corner Method 16618
147 Numeric Distribution 13800
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28091
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47779
150 Operational Efficiency 9640
151 Operational Objectives 13075
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17911
153 Operational Sustainability 27420
154 Operations Management 19764
155 Order Cancellation 10367
156 Order Cycle 18128
157 Order Cycle Time 23141
158 Order Fill Rate 33566
159 Order Fulfillment 6258
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10013
161 Parts Standardization 9045
162 PDCA Cycle 7796
163 Peak Load Pricing 13077
164 Perfect Order 12763
165 Physical Distribution 24499
166 Pick List 9567
167 Pipeline inventory 41874
168 Postponement 14985
169 Process Bottleneck 6008
170 Process Checklist Template 6691
171 Process Yield 19833
172 Product ID 15590
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10175
174 Production Capacity 26970
175 Production Orientation 25229
176 Production Planning 35464
177 Production Related Materials 7273
178 Production Scheduling 34952
179 Purchasing 22136
180 Quality Audit 6859
 
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