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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) 38000
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49002
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7436
84 Efficient Frontier 25052
85 Engineer-to-Order 31328
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16012
87 Erlang B Formula 9135
88 ETD 8117
89 Ex Works 7692
90 Exception Rate 13196
91 Exponential smoothing 9642
92 External Growth 9853
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9237
94 Field Services 7605
95 Field Warehouse 9721
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8489
97 Fishbone Diagram 14358
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26598
99 Flow Through Distribution 12088
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7959
101 FOB Destination 12730
102 Forward buying 29785
103 Freight Charge 10131
104 Freight Consolidation 7357
105 Gantt Chart 8134
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11481
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29236
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12461
109 Hub 23106
110 Idle Time 7893
111 Import/Export License 8513
112 In Bond Shipment 13661
113 Inbound Logistics 13263
114 Interstate System 10799
115 Inventory Costs 52885
116 Inventory in Transit 16151
117 Inventory Management 53974
118 Inventory Planning System 9614
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21995
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41591
121 JIT 2 18250
122 Job Production 26798
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8811
124 Kanban Squares 6658
125 Laid-Down Cost 9923
126 Lean Office 5842
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10759
128 Lee's Notation 8390
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13889
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36443
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8989
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7301
133 Logistics Channel 22610
134 Logistics Costs 26341
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6560
136 Manifest 10286
137 Marks and Numbers 12296
138 Material Planning 34667
139 Materials Management 26073
140 Milk Run 42570
141 Mini Land Bridge 14184
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9252
143 Modal Split 15057
144 Movement of Goods 19178
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31156
146 North West Corner Method 16672
147 Numeric Distribution 13897
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28198
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47944
150 Operational Efficiency 9735
151 Operational Objectives 13146
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17962
153 Operational Sustainability 27561
154 Operations Management 20026
155 Order Cancellation 10482
156 Order Cycle 18207
157 Order Cycle Time 23255
158 Order Fill Rate 33697
159 Order Fulfillment 6319
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10069
161 Parts Standardization 9114
162 PDCA Cycle 7838
163 Peak Load Pricing 13174
164 Perfect Order 12882
165 Physical Distribution 24628
166 Pick List 9647
167 Pipeline inventory 42021
168 Postponement 15071
169 Process Bottleneck 6086
170 Process Checklist Template 6735
171 Process Yield 19910
172 Product ID 15673
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10219
174 Production Capacity 27215
175 Production Orientation 25320
176 Production Planning 35788
177 Production Related Materials 7363
178 Production Scheduling 35231
179 Purchasing 22311
180 Quality Audit 6955
 
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