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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) 38472
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50214
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7748
84 Efficient Frontier 25755
85 Engineer-to-Order 32000
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16826
87 Erlang B Formula 9480
88 ETD 8460
89 Ex Works 7947
90 Exception Rate 13690
91 Exponential smoothing 9950
92 External Growth 10247
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9678
94 Field Services 7841
95 Field Warehouse 11055
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8996
97 Fishbone Diagram 14785
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27361
99 Flow Through Distribution 12495
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8349
101 FOB Destination 13237
102 Forward buying 30442
103 Freight Charge 10534
104 Freight Consolidation 7639
105 Gantt Chart 8389
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11940
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29784
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12854
109 Hub 23658
110 Idle Time 8200
111 Import/Export License 8860
112 In Bond Shipment 14145
113 Inbound Logistics 13764
114 Interstate System 11147
115 Inventory Costs 54127
116 Inventory in Transit 16757
117 Inventory Management 55315
118 Inventory Planning System 10008
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22526
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43497
121 JIT 2 18586
122 Job Production 28307
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9288
124 Kanban Squares 6983
125 Laid-Down Cost 10397
126 Lean Office 6262
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10928
128 Lee's Notation 8676
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14484
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37685
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9459
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7631
133 Logistics Channel 23088
134 Logistics Costs 26901
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6774
136 Manifest 10712
137 Marks and Numbers 12830
138 Material Planning 35402
139 Materials Management 26584
140 Milk Run 43406
141 Mini Land Bridge 14575
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9753
143 Modal Split 15622
144 Movement of Goods 19734
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31961
146 North West Corner Method 16989
147 Numeric Distribution 14417
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28778
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48850
150 Operational Efficiency 10077
151 Operational Objectives 13501
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18230
153 Operational Sustainability 28320
154 Operations Management 21130
155 Order Cancellation 11003
156 Order Cycle 18601
157 Order Cycle Time 23702
158 Order Fill Rate 34262
159 Order Fulfillment 6594
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10493
161 Parts Standardization 9447
162 PDCA Cycle 8146
163 Peak Load Pricing 13492
164 Perfect Order 13449
165 Physical Distribution 25196
166 Pick List 9994
167 Pipeline inventory 42617
168 Postponement 15469
169 Process Bottleneck 6436
170 Process Checklist Template 7032
171 Process Yield 20388
172 Product ID 16084
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10500
174 Production Capacity 28061
175 Production Orientation 25926
176 Production Planning 37138
177 Production Related Materials 7910
178 Production Scheduling 36493
179 Purchasing 23237
180 Quality Audit 7334
 
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