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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) 37882
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48648
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7363
84 Efficient Frontier 24849
85 Engineer-to-Order 31157
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15820
87 Erlang B Formula 9030
88 ETD 8041
89 Ex Works 7640
90 Exception Rate 13069
91 Exponential smoothing 9567
92 External Growth 9766
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9161
94 Field Services 7556
95 Field Warehouse 9630
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8351
97 Fishbone Diagram 14241
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26428
99 Flow Through Distribution 11986
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7868
101 FOB Destination 12609
102 Forward buying 29629
103 Freight Charge 10051
104 Freight Consolidation 7270
105 Gantt Chart 8073
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11342
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29044
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12382
109 Hub 22961
110 Idle Time 7819
111 Import/Export License 8420
112 In Bond Shipment 13538
113 Inbound Logistics 13146
114 Interstate System 10747
115 Inventory Costs 52516
116 Inventory in Transit 16022
117 Inventory Management 53661
118 Inventory Planning System 9536
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21821
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41042
121 JIT 2 18168
122 Job Production 26401
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8702
124 Kanban Squares 6571
125 Laid-Down Cost 9842
126 Lean Office 5760
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10709
128 Lee's Notation 8302
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13730
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36083
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8915
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7212
133 Logistics Channel 22492
134 Logistics Costs 26203
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6509
136 Manifest 10174
137 Marks and Numbers 12202
138 Material Planning 34448
139 Materials Management 25963
140 Milk Run 42273
141 Mini Land Bridge 14069
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9115
143 Modal Split 14884
144 Movement of Goods 19053
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30969
146 North West Corner Method 16603
147 Numeric Distribution 13764
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28064
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47736
150 Operational Efficiency 9621
151 Operational Objectives 13057
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17898
153 Operational Sustainability 27383
154 Operations Management 19698
155 Order Cancellation 10342
156 Order Cycle 18111
157 Order Cycle Time 23089
158 Order Fill Rate 33540
159 Order Fulfillment 6242
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 9998
161 Parts Standardization 9031
162 PDCA Cycle 7789
163 Peak Load Pricing 13062
164 Perfect Order 12741
165 Physical Distribution 24467
166 Pick List 9553
167 Pipeline inventory 41833
168 Postponement 14960
169 Process Bottleneck 5988
170 Process Checklist Template 6675
171 Process Yield 19808
172 Product ID 15573
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10162
174 Production Capacity 26909
175 Production Orientation 25205
176 Production Planning 35370
177 Production Related Materials 7250
178 Production Scheduling 34872
179 Purchasing 22086
180 Quality Audit 6841
 
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