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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) 38237
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49646
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7598
84 Efficient Frontier 25434
85 Engineer-to-Order 31702
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16400
87 Erlang B Formula 9329
88 ETD 8314
89 Ex Works 7822
90 Exception Rate 13461
91 Exponential smoothing 9812
92 External Growth 10053
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9413
94 Field Services 7729
95 Field Warehouse 10385
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8737
97 Fishbone Diagram 14582
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26983
99 Flow Through Distribution 12288
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8157
101 FOB Destination 13000
102 Forward buying 30053
103 Freight Charge 10313
104 Freight Consolidation 7511
105 Gantt Chart 8275
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11710
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29551
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12659
109 Hub 23390
110 Idle Time 8053
111 Import/Export License 8695
112 In Bond Shipment 13921
113 Inbound Logistics 13556
114 Interstate System 10984
115 Inventory Costs 53553
116 Inventory in Transit 16426
117 Inventory Management 54661
118 Inventory Planning System 9772
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22262
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42595
121 JIT 2 18418
122 Job Production 27573
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9044
124 Kanban Squares 6814
125 Laid-Down Cost 10147
126 Lean Office 6027
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10845
128 Lee's Notation 8549
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14196
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37156
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9238
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7427
133 Logistics Channel 22875
134 Logistics Costs 26634
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6677
136 Manifest 10512
137 Marks and Numbers 12582
138 Material Planning 35060
139 Materials Management 26341
140 Milk Run 43068
141 Mini Land Bridge 14400
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9528
143 Modal Split 15392
144 Movement of Goods 19448
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31579
146 North West Corner Method 16848
147 Numeric Distribution 14199
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28518
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48379
150 Operational Efficiency 9925
151 Operational Objectives 13331
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18111
153 Operational Sustainability 27907
154 Operations Management 20635
155 Order Cancellation 10800
156 Order Cycle 18426
157 Order Cycle Time 23490
158 Order Fill Rate 33993
159 Order Fulfillment 6461
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10289
161 Parts Standardization 9298
162 PDCA Cycle 7963
163 Peak Load Pricing 13352
164 Perfect Order 13200
165 Physical Distribution 24907
166 Pick List 9825
167 Pipeline inventory 42338
168 Postponement 15276
169 Process Bottleneck 6272
170 Process Checklist Template 6916
171 Process Yield 20126
172 Product ID 15886
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10353
174 Production Capacity 27667
175 Production Orientation 25628
176 Production Planning 36527
177 Production Related Materials 7674
178 Production Scheduling 35998
179 Purchasing 22752
180 Quality Audit 7146
 
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