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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) 38164
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49438
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7544
84 Efficient Frontier 25313
85 Engineer-to-Order 31591
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16274
87 Erlang B Formula 9269
88 ETD 8260
89 Ex Works 7778
90 Exception Rate 13376
91 Exponential smoothing 9760
92 External Growth 9985
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9354
94 Field Services 7692
95 Field Warehouse 10055
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8668
97 Fishbone Diagram 14517
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26862
99 Flow Through Distribution 12229
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8088
101 FOB Destination 12939
102 Forward buying 29955
103 Freight Charge 10251
104 Freight Consolidation 7462
105 Gantt Chart 8227
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11635
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29447
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12600
109 Hub 23299
110 Idle Time 7993
111 Import/Export License 8640
112 In Bond Shipment 13819
113 Inbound Logistics 13469
114 Interstate System 10927
115 Inventory Costs 53338
116 Inventory in Transit 16328
117 Inventory Management 54471
118 Inventory Planning System 9719
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22186
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42294
121 JIT 2 18363
122 Job Production 27332
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8969
124 Kanban Squares 6766
125 Laid-Down Cost 10067
126 Lean Office 5959
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10812
128 Lee's Notation 8503
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14099
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36949
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9159
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7381
133 Logistics Channel 22792
134 Logistics Costs 26532
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6630
136 Manifest 10452
137 Marks and Numbers 12507
138 Material Planning 34960
139 Materials Management 26261
140 Milk Run 42925
141 Mini Land Bridge 14329
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9435
143 Modal Split 15310
144 Movement of Goods 19354
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31424
146 North West Corner Method 16796
147 Numeric Distribution 14102
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28428
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48243
150 Operational Efficiency 9868
151 Operational Objectives 13269
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18070
153 Operational Sustainability 27785
154 Operations Management 20483
155 Order Cancellation 10721
156 Order Cycle 18360
157 Order Cycle Time 23419
158 Order Fill Rate 33899
159 Order Fulfillment 6412
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10214
161 Parts Standardization 9238
162 PDCA Cycle 7924
163 Peak Load Pricing 13296
164 Perfect Order 13096
165 Physical Distribution 24822
166 Pick List 9769
167 Pipeline inventory 42245
168 Postponement 15211
169 Process Bottleneck 6220
170 Process Checklist Template 6861
171 Process Yield 20060
172 Product ID 15819
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10320
174 Production Capacity 27514
175 Production Orientation 25520
176 Production Planning 36307
177 Production Related Materials 7599
178 Production Scheduling 35744
179 Purchasing 22598
180 Quality Audit 7080
 
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