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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) 38286
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49766
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7627
84 Efficient Frontier 25501
85 Engineer-to-Order 31764
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16538
87 Erlang B Formula 9356
88 ETD 8342
89 Ex Works 7843
90 Exception Rate 13505
91 Exponential smoothing 9838
92 External Growth 10087
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9529
94 Field Services 7748
95 Field Warehouse 10499
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8780
97 Fishbone Diagram 14619
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27052
99 Flow Through Distribution 12320
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8188
101 FOB Destination 13042
102 Forward buying 30179
103 Freight Charge 10419
104 Freight Consolidation 7538
105 Gantt Chart 8297
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11744
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29601
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12695
109 Hub 23447
110 Idle Time 8076
111 Import/Export License 8731
112 In Bond Shipment 13967
113 Inbound Logistics 13596
114 Interstate System 11017
115 Inventory Costs 53678
116 Inventory in Transit 16545
117 Inventory Management 54837
118 Inventory Planning System 9882
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22314
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42774
121 JIT 2 18451
122 Job Production 27719
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9156
124 Kanban Squares 6848
125 Laid-Down Cost 10204
126 Lean Office 6132
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10865
128 Lee's Notation 8577
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14253
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37308
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9284
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7538
133 Logistics Channel 22929
134 Logistics Costs 26700
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6699
136 Manifest 10549
137 Marks and Numbers 12620
138 Material Planning 35120
139 Materials Management 26387
140 Milk Run 43133
141 Mini Land Bridge 14430
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9576
143 Modal Split 15443
144 Movement of Goods 19500
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31673
146 North West Corner Method 16879
147 Numeric Distribution 14242
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28568
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48479
150 Operational Efficiency 9956
151 Operational Objectives 13362
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18132
153 Operational Sustainability 28045
154 Operations Management 20819
155 Order Cancellation 10843
156 Order Cycle 18458
157 Order Cycle Time 23530
158 Order Fill Rate 34052
159 Order Fulfillment 6483
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10332
161 Parts Standardization 9329
162 PDCA Cycle 8061
163 Peak Load Pricing 13378
164 Perfect Order 13248
165 Physical Distribution 24958
166 Pick List 9855
167 Pipeline inventory 42387
168 Postponement 15303
169 Process Bottleneck 6311
170 Process Checklist Template 6939
171 Process Yield 20245
172 Product ID 15928
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10376
174 Production Capacity 27740
175 Production Orientation 25684
176 Production Planning 36656
177 Production Related Materials 7711
178 Production Scheduling 36091
179 Purchasing 22899
180 Quality Audit 7184
 
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