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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) 38190
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49492
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7563
84 Efficient Frontier 25361
85 Engineer-to-Order 31628
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16314
87 Erlang B Formula 9295
88 ETD 8275
89 Ex Works 7791
90 Exception Rate 13405
91 Exponential smoothing 9776
92 External Growth 10011
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9374
94 Field Services 7704
95 Field Warehouse 10184
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8693
97 Fishbone Diagram 14542
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26903
99 Flow Through Distribution 12247
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8112
101 FOB Destination 12957
102 Forward buying 29986
103 Freight Charge 10268
104 Freight Consolidation 7482
105 Gantt Chart 8246
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11656
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29479
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12621
109 Hub 23327
110 Idle Time 8010
111 Import/Export License 8657
112 In Bond Shipment 13855
113 Inbound Logistics 13497
114 Interstate System 10947
115 Inventory Costs 53402
116 Inventory in Transit 16359
117 Inventory Management 54535
118 Inventory Planning System 9734
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22216
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42401
121 JIT 2 18382
122 Job Production 27406
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8992
124 Kanban Squares 6784
125 Laid-Down Cost 10095
126 Lean Office 5976
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10828
128 Lee's Notation 8516
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14130
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37033
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9188
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7396
133 Logistics Channel 22820
134 Logistics Costs 26562
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6645
136 Manifest 10476
137 Marks and Numbers 12540
138 Material Planning 34993
139 Materials Management 26292
140 Milk Run 42978
141 Mini Land Bridge 14354
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9472
143 Modal Split 15338
144 Movement of Goods 19381
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31470
146 North West Corner Method 16811
147 Numeric Distribution 14134
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28456
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48298
150 Operational Efficiency 9889
151 Operational Objectives 13288
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18083
153 Operational Sustainability 27823
154 Operations Management 20533
155 Order Cancellation 10745
156 Order Cycle 18379
157 Order Cycle Time 23438
158 Order Fill Rate 33936
159 Order Fulfillment 6431
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10241
161 Parts Standardization 9262
162 PDCA Cycle 7936
163 Peak Load Pricing 13313
164 Perfect Order 13132
165 Physical Distribution 24844
166 Pick List 9788
167 Pipeline inventory 42278
168 Postponement 15231
169 Process Bottleneck 6240
170 Process Checklist Template 6879
171 Process Yield 20079
172 Product ID 15838
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10334
174 Production Capacity 27569
175 Production Orientation 25556
176 Production Planning 36382
177 Production Related Materials 7620
178 Production Scheduling 35856
179 Purchasing 22644
180 Quality Audit 7103
 
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