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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) 38358
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49975
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7683
84 Efficient Frontier 25614
85 Engineer-to-Order 31874
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16668
87 Erlang B Formula 9416
88 ETD 8392
89 Ex Works 7885
90 Exception Rate 13591
91 Exponential smoothing 9890
92 External Growth 10164
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9587
94 Field Services 7790
95 Field Warehouse 10742
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8879
97 Fishbone Diagram 14689
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27200
99 Flow Through Distribution 12398
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8258
101 FOB Destination 13139
102 Forward buying 30325
103 Freight Charge 10480
104 Freight Consolidation 7591
105 Gantt Chart 8343
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11822
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29691
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12768
109 Hub 23549
110 Idle Time 8133
111 Import/Export License 8801
112 In Bond Shipment 14064
113 Inbound Logistics 13679
114 Interstate System 11083
115 Inventory Costs 53917
116 Inventory in Transit 16630
117 Inventory Management 55056
118 Inventory Planning System 9936
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22407
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43152
121 JIT 2 18516
122 Job Production 28001
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9213
124 Kanban Squares 6913
125 Laid-Down Cost 10298
126 Lean Office 6196
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10897
128 Lee's Notation 8627
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14364
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37479
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9366
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7579
133 Logistics Channel 23007
134 Logistics Costs 26797
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6732
136 Manifest 10630
137 Marks and Numbers 12717
138 Material Planning 35264
139 Materials Management 26479
140 Milk Run 43268
141 Mini Land Bridge 14498
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9663
143 Modal Split 15532
144 Movement of Goods 19589
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31830
146 North West Corner Method 16930
147 Numeric Distribution 14325
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28671
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48656
150 Operational Efficiency 10012
151 Operational Objectives 13441
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18182
153 Operational Sustainability 28189
154 Operations Management 20982
155 Order Cancellation 10918
156 Order Cycle 18527
157 Order Cycle Time 23614
158 Order Fill Rate 34146
159 Order Fulfillment 6533
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10409
161 Parts Standardization 9389
162 PDCA Cycle 8106
163 Peak Load Pricing 13431
164 Perfect Order 13350
165 Physical Distribution 25081
166 Pick List 9918
167 Pipeline inventory 42503
168 Postponement 15368
169 Process Bottleneck 6370
170 Process Checklist Template 6990
171 Process Yield 20314
172 Product ID 16005
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10431
174 Production Capacity 27897
175 Production Orientation 25788
176 Production Planning 36902
177 Production Related Materials 7793
178 Production Scheduling 36291
179 Purchasing 23073
180 Quality Audit 7248
 
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