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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) 38410
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50093
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7717
84 Efficient Frontier 25683
85 Engineer-to-Order 31940
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16744
87 Erlang B Formula 9451
88 ETD 8424
89 Ex Works 7917
90 Exception Rate 13647
91 Exponential smoothing 9919
92 External Growth 10201
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9628
94 Field Services 7811
95 Field Warehouse 10897
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8939
97 Fishbone Diagram 14733
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27281
99 Flow Through Distribution 12445
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8300
101 FOB Destination 13179
102 Forward buying 30377
103 Freight Charge 10506
104 Freight Consolidation 7612
105 Gantt Chart 8365
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11875
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29739
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12804
109 Hub 23591
110 Idle Time 8159
111 Import/Export License 8827
112 In Bond Shipment 14097
113 Inbound Logistics 13717
114 Interstate System 11110
115 Inventory Costs 54022
116 Inventory in Transit 16689
117 Inventory Management 55183
118 Inventory Planning System 9966
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22473
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43287
121 JIT 2 18551
122 Job Production 28153
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9247
124 Kanban Squares 6949
125 Laid-Down Cost 10347
126 Lean Office 6228
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10910
128 Lee's Notation 8645
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14424
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37585
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9411
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7603
133 Logistics Channel 23047
134 Logistics Costs 26850
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6753
136 Manifest 10672
137 Marks and Numbers 12774
138 Material Planning 35329
139 Materials Management 26530
140 Milk Run 43338
141 Mini Land Bridge 14539
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9707
143 Modal Split 15574
144 Movement of Goods 19645
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31897
146 North West Corner Method 16956
147 Numeric Distribution 14368
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28725
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48765
150 Operational Efficiency 10044
151 Operational Objectives 13473
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18202
153 Operational Sustainability 28256
154 Operations Management 21062
155 Order Cancellation 10956
156 Order Cycle 18562
157 Order Cycle Time 23654
158 Order Fill Rate 34199
159 Order Fulfillment 6564
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10452
161 Parts Standardization 9415
162 PDCA Cycle 8124
163 Peak Load Pricing 13461
164 Perfect Order 13402
165 Physical Distribution 25138
166 Pick List 9955
167 Pipeline inventory 42556
168 Postponement 15413
169 Process Bottleneck 6399
170 Process Checklist Template 7011
171 Process Yield 20356
172 Product ID 16046
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10456
174 Production Capacity 27978
175 Production Orientation 25859
176 Production Planning 37021
177 Production Related Materials 7860
178 Production Scheduling 36398
179 Purchasing 23157
180 Quality Audit 7286
 
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