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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) 38144
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49376
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7530
84 Efficient Frontier 25285
85 Engineer-to-Order 31563
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16248
87 Erlang B Formula 9252
88 ETD 8239
89 Ex Works 7770
90 Exception Rate 13347
91 Exponential smoothing 9750
92 External Growth 9963
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9340
94 Field Services 7676
95 Field Warehouse 9936
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8643
97 Fishbone Diagram 14504
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26832
99 Flow Through Distribution 12204
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8074
101 FOB Destination 12917
102 Forward buying 29927
103 Freight Charge 10235
104 Freight Consolidation 7447
105 Gantt Chart 8217
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11614
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29411
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12577
109 Hub 23273
110 Idle Time 7981
111 Import/Export License 8622
112 In Bond Shipment 13795
113 Inbound Logistics 13443
114 Interstate System 10908
115 Inventory Costs 53283
116 Inventory in Transit 16309
117 Inventory Management 54421
118 Inventory Planning System 9709
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22157
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42199
121 JIT 2 18345
122 Job Production 27262
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8951
124 Kanban Squares 6753
125 Laid-Down Cost 10050
126 Lean Office 5945
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10804
128 Lee's Notation 8489
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14074
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36889
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9139
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7372
133 Logistics Channel 22768
134 Logistics Costs 26501
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6625
136 Manifest 10433
137 Marks and Numbers 12476
138 Material Planning 34931
139 Materials Management 26237
140 Milk Run 42879
141 Mini Land Bridge 14315
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9410
143 Modal Split 15276
144 Movement of Goods 19332
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31386
146 North West Corner Method 16777
147 Numeric Distribution 14068
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28400
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48206
150 Operational Efficiency 9851
151 Operational Objectives 13253
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18054
153 Operational Sustainability 27750
154 Operations Management 20428
155 Order Cancellation 10696
156 Order Cycle 18341
157 Order Cycle Time 23404
158 Order Fill Rate 33879
159 Order Fulfillment 6399
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10196
161 Parts Standardization 9221
162 PDCA Cycle 7916
163 Peak Load Pricing 13285
164 Perfect Order 13061
165 Physical Distribution 24801
166 Pick List 9753
167 Pipeline inventory 42217
168 Postponement 15191
169 Process Bottleneck 6201
170 Process Checklist Template 6844
171 Process Yield 20042
172 Product ID 15799
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10306
174 Production Capacity 27467
175 Production Orientation 25489
176 Production Planning 36230
177 Production Related Materials 7574
178 Production Scheduling 35646
179 Purchasing 22558
180 Quality Audit 7067
 
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