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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) 49897
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7663
84 Efficient Frontier 25581
85 Engineer-to-Order 31842
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16623
87 Erlang B Formula 9395
88 ETD 8372
89 Ex Works 7872
90 Exception Rate 13556
91 Exponential smoothing 9866
92 External Growth 10137
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9566
94 Field Services 7776
95 Field Warehouse 10655
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8849
97 Fishbone Diagram 14667
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27159
99 Flow Through Distribution 12371
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8231
101 FOB Destination 13112
102 Forward buying 30277
103 Freight Charge 10454
104 Freight Consolidation 7577
105 Gantt Chart 8329
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11792
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29660
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12746
109 Hub 23515
110 Idle Time 8112
111 Import/Export License 8776
112 In Bond Shipment 14027
113 Inbound Logistics 13650
114 Interstate System 11059
115 Inventory Costs 53835
116 Inventory in Transit 16595
117 Inventory Management 54984
118 Inventory Planning System 9914
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22370
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43061
121 JIT 2 18496
122 Job Production 27894
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9189
124 Kanban Squares 6884
125 Laid-Down Cost 10265
126 Lean Office 6168
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10887
128 Lee's Notation 8608
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14327
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37425
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9341
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7564
133 Logistics Channel 22976
134 Logistics Costs 26751
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6720
136 Manifest 10597
137 Marks and Numbers 12689
138 Material Planning 35218
139 Materials Management 26445
140 Milk Run 43216
141 Mini Land Bridge 14471
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9631
143 Modal Split 15499
144 Movement of Goods 19553
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31781
146 North West Corner Method 16910
147 Numeric Distribution 14295
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28636
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48587
150 Operational Efficiency 9990
151 Operational Objectives 13414
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18163
153 Operational Sustainability 28151
154 Operations Management 20939
155 Order Cancellation 10892
156 Order Cycle 18505
157 Order Cycle Time 23583
158 Order Fill Rate 34116
159 Order Fulfillment 6511
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10380
161 Parts Standardization 9367
162 PDCA Cycle 8091
163 Peak Load Pricing 13411
164 Perfect Order 13318
165 Physical Distribution 25039
166 Pick List 9900
167 Pipeline inventory 42461
168 Postponement 15346
169 Process Bottleneck 6345
170 Process Checklist Template 6970
171 Process Yield 20287
172 Product ID 15976
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10411
174 Production Capacity 27836
175 Production Orientation 25752
176 Production Planning 36816
177 Production Related Materials 7754
178 Production Scheduling 36234
179 Purchasing 23009
180 Quality Audit 7228
 
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