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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) 38314
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49866
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7653
84 Efficient Frontier 25568
85 Engineer-to-Order 31828
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16608
87 Erlang B Formula 9387
88 ETD 8364
89 Ex Works 7864
90 Exception Rate 13545
91 Exponential smoothing 9858
92 External Growth 10124
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9558
94 Field Services 7768
95 Field Warehouse 10626
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8835
97 Fishbone Diagram 14657
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27136
99 Flow Through Distribution 12359
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8218
101 FOB Destination 13098
102 Forward buying 30256
103 Freight Charge 10445
104 Freight Consolidation 7568
105 Gantt Chart 8323
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11782
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29648
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12736
109 Hub 23500
110 Idle Time 8104
111 Import/Export License 8762
112 In Bond Shipment 14021
113 Inbound Logistics 13637
114 Interstate System 11046
115 Inventory Costs 53800
116 Inventory in Transit 16584
117 Inventory Management 54954
118 Inventory Planning System 9904
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22357
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43012
121 JIT 2 18489
122 Job Production 27859
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9178
124 Kanban Squares 6872
125 Laid-Down Cost 10254
126 Lean Office 6158
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10882
128 Lee's Notation 8603
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14311
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37405
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9330
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7558
133 Logistics Channel 22967
134 Logistics Costs 26739
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6715
136 Manifest 10582
137 Marks and Numbers 12670
138 Material Planning 35208
139 Materials Management 26430
140 Milk Run 43195
141 Mini Land Bridge 14460
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9616
143 Modal Split 15490
144 Movement of Goods 19543
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31764
146 North West Corner Method 16903
147 Numeric Distribution 14283
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28614
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48563
150 Operational Efficiency 9981
151 Operational Objectives 13402
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18158
153 Operational Sustainability 28133
154 Operations Management 20917
155 Order Cancellation 10882
156 Order Cycle 18494
157 Order Cycle Time 23569
158 Order Fill Rate 34100
159 Order Fulfillment 6506
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10369
161 Parts Standardization 9358
162 PDCA Cycle 8084
163 Peak Load Pricing 13403
164 Perfect Order 13303
165 Physical Distribution 25024
166 Pick List 9886
167 Pipeline inventory 42445
168 Postponement 15335
169 Process Bottleneck 6333
170 Process Checklist Template 6962
171 Process Yield 20280
172 Product ID 15967
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10407
174 Production Capacity 27813
175 Production Orientation 25739
176 Production Planning 36783
177 Production Related Materials 7744
178 Production Scheduling 36206
179 Purchasing 22984
180 Quality Audit 7215
 
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