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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) 38208
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49565
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7575
84 Efficient Frontier 25396
85 Engineer-to-Order 31666
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16355
87 Erlang B Formula 9310
88 ETD 8292
89 Ex Works 7804
90 Exception Rate 13433
91 Exponential smoothing 9792
92 External Growth 10027
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9390
94 Field Services 7715
95 Field Warehouse 10301
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8713
97 Fishbone Diagram 14563
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26944
99 Flow Through Distribution 12269
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8131
101 FOB Destination 12978
102 Forward buying 30020
103 Freight Charge 10281
104 Freight Consolidation 7491
105 Gantt Chart 8262
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11685
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29517
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12638
109 Hub 23358
110 Idle Time 8028
111 Import/Export License 8674
112 In Bond Shipment 13888
113 Inbound Logistics 13532
114 Interstate System 10963
115 Inventory Costs 53470
116 Inventory in Transit 16387
117 Inventory Management 54596
118 Inventory Planning System 9747
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22243
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42506
121 JIT 2 18397
122 Job Production 27495
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9013
124 Kanban Squares 6802
125 Laid-Down Cost 10119
126 Lean Office 5997
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10833
128 Lee's Notation 8536
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14166
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37103
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9213
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7406
133 Logistics Channel 22847
134 Logistics Costs 26602
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6656
136 Manifest 10492
137 Marks and Numbers 12563
138 Material Planning 35024
139 Materials Management 26312
140 Milk Run 43029
141 Mini Land Bridge 14379
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9499
143 Modal Split 15367
144 Movement of Goods 19413
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31527
146 North West Corner Method 16827
147 Numeric Distribution 14160
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28489
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48339
150 Operational Efficiency 9906
151 Operational Objectives 13308
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18096
153 Operational Sustainability 27867
154 Operations Management 20590
155 Order Cancellation 10769
156 Order Cycle 18403
157 Order Cycle Time 23461
158 Order Fill Rate 33961
159 Order Fulfillment 6445
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10273
161 Parts Standardization 9276
162 PDCA Cycle 7942
163 Peak Load Pricing 13331
164 Perfect Order 13165
165 Physical Distribution 24875
166 Pick List 9805
167 Pipeline inventory 42310
168 Postponement 15253
169 Process Bottleneck 6253
170 Process Checklist Template 6892
171 Process Yield 20100
172 Product ID 15862
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10342
174 Production Capacity 27623
175 Production Orientation 25584
176 Production Planning 36462
177 Production Related Materials 7650
178 Production Scheduling 35925
179 Purchasing 22703
180 Quality Audit 7123
 
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