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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) 38154
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49405
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7540
84 Efficient Frontier 25298
85 Engineer-to-Order 31572
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16260
87 Erlang B Formula 9265
88 ETD 8250
89 Ex Works 7776
90 Exception Rate 13364
91 Exponential smoothing 9753
92 External Growth 9974
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9345
94 Field Services 7685
95 Field Warehouse 9997
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8651
97 Fishbone Diagram 14509
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26844
99 Flow Through Distribution 12214
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8083
101 FOB Destination 12932
102 Forward buying 29944
103 Freight Charge 10243
104 Freight Consolidation 7456
105 Gantt Chart 8224
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11623
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29434
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12585
109 Hub 23287
110 Idle Time 7988
111 Import/Export License 8630
112 In Bond Shipment 13810
113 Inbound Logistics 13455
114 Interstate System 10917
115 Inventory Costs 53310
116 Inventory in Transit 16319
117 Inventory Management 54442
118 Inventory Planning System 9715
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22170
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42245
121 JIT 2 18359
122 Job Production 27299
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8961
124 Kanban Squares 6762
125 Laid-Down Cost 10059
126 Lean Office 5952
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10810
128 Lee's Notation 8497
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14085
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36918
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9150
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7377
133 Logistics Channel 22779
134 Logistics Costs 26517
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6628
136 Manifest 10443
137 Marks and Numbers 12493
138 Material Planning 34942
139 Materials Management 26248
140 Milk Run 42899
141 Mini Land Bridge 14322
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9425
143 Modal Split 15294
144 Movement of Goods 19345
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31405
146 North West Corner Method 16789
147 Numeric Distribution 14085
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28413
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48220
150 Operational Efficiency 9859
151 Operational Objectives 13263
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18065
153 Operational Sustainability 27764
154 Operations Management 20461
155 Order Cancellation 10709
156 Order Cycle 18353
157 Order Cycle Time 23409
158 Order Fill Rate 33889
159 Order Fulfillment 6407
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10203
161 Parts Standardization 9230
162 PDCA Cycle 7922
163 Peak Load Pricing 13290
164 Perfect Order 13078
165 Physical Distribution 24813
166 Pick List 9761
167 Pipeline inventory 42230
168 Postponement 15200
169 Process Bottleneck 6210
170 Process Checklist Template 6853
171 Process Yield 20053
172 Product ID 15811
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10315
174 Production Capacity 27488
175 Production Orientation 25504
176 Production Planning 36265
177 Production Related Materials 7588
178 Production Scheduling 35686
179 Purchasing 22573
180 Quality Audit 7074
 
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