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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) 38003
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49010
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7440
84 Efficient Frontier 25056
85 Engineer-to-Order 31336
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16014
87 Erlang B Formula 9141
88 ETD 8118
89 Ex Works 7693
90 Exception Rate 13199
91 Exponential smoothing 9644
92 External Growth 9856
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9237
94 Field Services 7605
95 Field Warehouse 9726
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8491
97 Fishbone Diagram 14360
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26604
99 Flow Through Distribution 12089
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7961
101 FOB Destination 12735
102 Forward buying 29786
103 Freight Charge 10132
104 Freight Consolidation 7358
105 Gantt Chart 8137
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11482
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29238
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12465
109 Hub 23110
110 Idle Time 7894
111 Import/Export License 8517
112 In Bond Shipment 13666
113 Inbound Logistics 13265
114 Interstate System 10801
115 Inventory Costs 52895
116 Inventory in Transit 16154
117 Inventory Management 53987
118 Inventory Planning System 9616
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22000
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41600
121 JIT 2 18251
122 Job Production 26806
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8813
124 Kanban Squares 6661
125 Laid-Down Cost 9926
126 Lean Office 5844
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10759
128 Lee's Notation 8393
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13892
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36455
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8990
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7302
133 Logistics Channel 22612
134 Logistics Costs 26345
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6561
136 Manifest 10289
137 Marks and Numbers 12300
138 Material Planning 34671
139 Materials Management 26074
140 Milk Run 42579
141 Mini Land Bridge 14186
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9256
143 Modal Split 15060
144 Movement of Goods 19181
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31162
146 North West Corner Method 16673
147 Numeric Distribution 13903
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28202
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47948
150 Operational Efficiency 9737
151 Operational Objectives 13149
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17962
153 Operational Sustainability 27565
154 Operations Management 20031
155 Order Cancellation 10484
156 Order Cycle 18208
157 Order Cycle Time 23260
158 Order Fill Rate 33700
159 Order Fulfillment 6321
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10069
161 Parts Standardization 9116
162 PDCA Cycle 7840
163 Peak Load Pricing 13180
164 Perfect Order 12885
165 Physical Distribution 24632
166 Pick List 9651
167 Pipeline inventory 42027
168 Postponement 15073
169 Process Bottleneck 6088
170 Process Checklist Template 6735
171 Process Yield 19910
172 Product ID 15676
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10222
174 Production Capacity 27222
175 Production Orientation 25320
176 Production Planning 35796
177 Production Related Materials 7365
178 Production Scheduling 35243
179 Purchasing 22315
180 Quality Audit 6957
 
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