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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) 38220
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49599
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7583
84 Efficient Frontier 25414
85 Engineer-to-Order 31687
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16376
87 Erlang B Formula 9319
88 ETD 8303
89 Ex Works 7811
90 Exception Rate 13441
91 Exponential smoothing 9804
92 External Growth 10035
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9397
94 Field Services 7722
95 Field Warehouse 10336
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8724
97 Fishbone Diagram 14568
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26959
99 Flow Through Distribution 12278
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8138
101 FOB Destination 12985
102 Forward buying 30030
103 Freight Charge 10293
104 Freight Consolidation 7498
105 Gantt Chart 8266
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11692
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29526
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12648
109 Hub 23374
110 Idle Time 8038
111 Import/Export License 8682
112 In Bond Shipment 13899
113 Inbound Logistics 13543
114 Interstate System 10973
115 Inventory Costs 53497
116 Inventory in Transit 16402
117 Inventory Management 54616
118 Inventory Planning System 9753
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22249
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42542
121 JIT 2 18406
122 Job Production 27525
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9022
124 Kanban Squares 6808
125 Laid-Down Cost 10131
126 Lean Office 6005
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10837
128 Lee's Notation 8543
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14177
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37123
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9223
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7411
133 Logistics Channel 22858
134 Logistics Costs 26614
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6664
136 Manifest 10503
137 Marks and Numbers 12571
138 Material Planning 35032
139 Materials Management 26322
140 Milk Run 43045
141 Mini Land Bridge 14385
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9509
143 Modal Split 15375
144 Movement of Goods 19422
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31554
146 North West Corner Method 16833
147 Numeric Distribution 14173
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28497
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48361
150 Operational Efficiency 9912
151 Operational Objectives 13314
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18101
153 Operational Sustainability 27883
154 Operations Management 20604
155 Order Cancellation 10783
156 Order Cycle 18412
157 Order Cycle Time 23473
158 Order Fill Rate 33972
159 Order Fulfillment 6447
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10278
161 Parts Standardization 9281
162 PDCA Cycle 7946
163 Peak Load Pricing 13339
164 Perfect Order 13188
165 Physical Distribution 24886
166 Pick List 9814
167 Pipeline inventory 42321
168 Postponement 15265
169 Process Bottleneck 6258
170 Process Checklist Template 6901
171 Process Yield 20110
172 Product ID 15869
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10347
174 Production Capacity 27645
175 Production Orientation 25598
176 Production Planning 36488
177 Production Related Materials 7659
178 Production Scheduling 35959
179 Purchasing 22720
180 Quality Audit 7133
 
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