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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) 38329
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49902
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7664
84 Efficient Frontier 25581
85 Engineer-to-Order 31842
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16624
87 Erlang B Formula 9397
88 ETD 8373
89 Ex Works 7873
90 Exception Rate 13558
91 Exponential smoothing 9867
92 External Growth 10139
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9569
94 Field Services 7777
95 Field Warehouse 10657
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8851
97 Fishbone Diagram 14668
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27159
99 Flow Through Distribution 12371
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8231
101 FOB Destination 13114
102 Forward buying 30280
103 Freight Charge 10455
104 Freight Consolidation 7578
105 Gantt Chart 8329
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11795
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29661
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12746
109 Hub 23517
110 Idle Time 8114
111 Import/Export License 8777
112 In Bond Shipment 14027
113 Inbound Logistics 13652
114 Interstate System 11059
115 Inventory Costs 53839
116 Inventory in Transit 16597
117 Inventory Management 54986
118 Inventory Planning System 9915
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22373
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43069
121 JIT 2 18496
122 Job Production 27901
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9191
124 Kanban Squares 6884
125 Laid-Down Cost 10267
126 Lean Office 6169
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10888
128 Lee's Notation 8608
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14330
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37426
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9343
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7564
133 Logistics Channel 22977
134 Logistics Costs 26753
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6720
136 Manifest 10598
137 Marks and Numbers 12689
138 Material Planning 35220
139 Materials Management 26446
140 Milk Run 43219
141 Mini Land Bridge 14474
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9632
143 Modal Split 15500
144 Movement of Goods 19554
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31783
146 North West Corner Method 16910
147 Numeric Distribution 14296
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28636
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48593
150 Operational Efficiency 9992
151 Operational Objectives 13414
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18166
153 Operational Sustainability 28152
154 Operations Management 20943
155 Order Cancellation 10894
156 Order Cycle 18506
157 Order Cycle Time 23584
158 Order Fill Rate 34118
159 Order Fulfillment 6513
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10381
161 Parts Standardization 9369
162 PDCA Cycle 8092
163 Peak Load Pricing 13411
164 Perfect Order 13319
165 Physical Distribution 25039
166 Pick List 9900
167 Pipeline inventory 42463
168 Postponement 15347
169 Process Bottleneck 6347
170 Process Checklist Template 6970
171 Process Yield 20288
172 Product ID 15977
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10413
174 Production Capacity 27837
175 Production Orientation 25754
176 Production Planning 36820
177 Production Related Materials 7755
178 Production Scheduling 36237
179 Purchasing 23012
180 Quality Audit 7230
 
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