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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) 38465
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50199
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7743
84 Efficient Frontier 25747
85 Engineer-to-Order 31989
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16819
87 Erlang B Formula 9475
88 ETD 8456
89 Ex Works 7941
90 Exception Rate 13684
91 Exponential smoothing 9946
92 External Growth 10241
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9672
94 Field Services 7834
95 Field Warehouse 11034
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8992
97 Fishbone Diagram 14778
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27355
99 Flow Through Distribution 12488
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8344
101 FOB Destination 13227
102 Forward buying 30434
103 Freight Charge 10529
104 Freight Consolidation 7634
105 Gantt Chart 8386
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11933
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29778
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12849
109 Hub 23652
110 Idle Time 8196
111 Import/Export License 8856
112 In Bond Shipment 14141
113 Inbound Logistics 13760
114 Interstate System 11139
115 Inventory Costs 54109
116 Inventory in Transit 16749
117 Inventory Management 55301
118 Inventory Planning System 10004
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22521
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43471
121 JIT 2 18583
122 Job Production 28286
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9280
124 Kanban Squares 6982
125 Laid-Down Cost 10394
126 Lean Office 6258
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10926
128 Lee's Notation 8670
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14479
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37677
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9447
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7622
133 Logistics Channel 23084
134 Logistics Costs 26896
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6772
136 Manifest 10709
137 Marks and Numbers 12825
138 Material Planning 35388
139 Materials Management 26574
140 Milk Run 43401
141 Mini Land Bridge 14568
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9747
143 Modal Split 15617
144 Movement of Goods 19725
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31955
146 North West Corner Method 16985
147 Numeric Distribution 14409
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28772
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48836
150 Operational Efficiency 10071
151 Operational Objectives 13500
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18226
153 Operational Sustainability 28310
154 Operations Management 21122
155 Order Cancellation 10997
156 Order Cycle 18593
157 Order Cycle Time 23698
158 Order Fill Rate 34254
159 Order Fulfillment 6590
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10488
161 Parts Standardization 9438
162 PDCA Cycle 8141
163 Peak Load Pricing 13486
164 Perfect Order 13441
165 Physical Distribution 25185
166 Pick List 9986
167 Pipeline inventory 42609
168 Postponement 15464
169 Process Bottleneck 6433
170 Process Checklist Template 7027
171 Process Yield 20384
172 Product ID 16078
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10494
174 Production Capacity 28048
175 Production Orientation 25918
176 Production Planning 37125
177 Production Related Materials 7902
178 Production Scheduling 36478
179 Purchasing 23231
180 Quality Audit 7328
 
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