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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) 37943
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48830
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7397
84 Efficient Frontier 24948
85 Engineer-to-Order 31246
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15931
87 Erlang B Formula 9086
88 ETD 8075
89 Ex Works 7665
90 Exception Rate 13133
91 Exponential smoothing 9601
92 External Growth 9813
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9197
94 Field Services 7578
95 Field Warehouse 9676
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8415
97 Fishbone Diagram 14296
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26503
99 Flow Through Distribution 12035
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7913
101 FOB Destination 12671
102 Forward buying 29702
103 Freight Charge 10089
104 Freight Consolidation 7312
105 Gantt Chart 8108
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11401
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29157
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12419
109 Hub 23041
110 Idle Time 7858
111 Import/Export License 8470
112 In Bond Shipment 13605
113 Inbound Logistics 13203
114 Interstate System 10770
115 Inventory Costs 52721
116 Inventory in Transit 16083
117 Inventory Management 53818
118 Inventory Planning System 9572
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21903
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41335
121 JIT 2 18200
122 Job Production 26593
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8752
124 Kanban Squares 6610
125 Laid-Down Cost 9881
126 Lean Office 5795
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10729
128 Lee's Notation 8345
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13806
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36260
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8947
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7254
133 Logistics Channel 22553
134 Logistics Costs 26270
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6529
136 Manifest 10228
137 Marks and Numbers 12253
138 Material Planning 34551
139 Materials Management 26016
140 Milk Run 42415
141 Mini Land Bridge 14122
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9174
143 Modal Split 14962
144 Movement of Goods 19118
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31053
146 North West Corner Method 16639
147 Numeric Distribution 13836
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28132
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47836
150 Operational Efficiency 9673
151 Operational Objectives 13101
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17926
153 Operational Sustainability 27473
154 Operations Management 19854
155 Order Cancellation 10403
156 Order Cycle 18160
157 Order Cycle Time 23179
158 Order Fill Rate 33617
159 Order Fulfillment 6278
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10035
161 Parts Standardization 9069
162 PDCA Cycle 7810
163 Peak Load Pricing 13118
164 Perfect Order 12805
165 Physical Distribution 24545
166 Pick List 9600
167 Pipeline inventory 41929
168 Postponement 15017
169 Process Bottleneck 6039
170 Process Checklist Template 6707
171 Process Yield 19855
172 Product ID 15624
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10185
174 Production Capacity 27055
175 Production Orientation 25258
176 Production Planning 35596
177 Production Related Materials 7307
178 Production Scheduling 35056
179 Purchasing 22199
180 Quality Audit 6897
 
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