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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) 37882
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48651
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7363
84 Efficient Frontier 24853
85 Engineer-to-Order 31159
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15821
87 Erlang B Formula 9033
88 ETD 8041
89 Ex Works 7642
90 Exception Rate 13070
91 Exponential smoothing 9568
92 External Growth 9767
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9161
94 Field Services 7558
95 Field Warehouse 9630
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8352
97 Fishbone Diagram 14243
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26429
99 Flow Through Distribution 11986
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7868
101 FOB Destination 12612
102 Forward buying 29630
103 Freight Charge 10051
104 Freight Consolidation 7270
105 Gantt Chart 8074
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11342
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29047
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12383
109 Hub 22962
110 Idle Time 7819
111 Import/Export License 8420
112 In Bond Shipment 13538
113 Inbound Logistics 13147
114 Interstate System 10748
115 Inventory Costs 52518
116 Inventory in Transit 16022
117 Inventory Management 53663
118 Inventory Planning System 9536
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21821
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41052
121 JIT 2 18168
122 Job Production 26404
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8704
124 Kanban Squares 6573
125 Laid-Down Cost 9842
126 Lean Office 5760
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10710
128 Lee's Notation 8302
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13731
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36088
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8915
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7212
133 Logistics Channel 22492
134 Logistics Costs 26204
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6509
136 Manifest 10175
137 Marks and Numbers 12205
138 Material Planning 34450
139 Materials Management 25964
140 Milk Run 42274
141 Mini Land Bridge 14069
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9116
143 Modal Split 14887
144 Movement of Goods 19055
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30974
146 North West Corner Method 16603
147 Numeric Distribution 13765
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28065
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47738
150 Operational Efficiency 9621
151 Operational Objectives 13059
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17899
153 Operational Sustainability 27386
154 Operations Management 19701
155 Order Cancellation 10343
156 Order Cycle 18111
157 Order Cycle Time 23093
158 Order Fill Rate 33542
159 Order Fulfillment 6242
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10000
161 Parts Standardization 9031
162 PDCA Cycle 7789
163 Peak Load Pricing 13062
164 Perfect Order 12741
165 Physical Distribution 24469
166 Pick List 9555
167 Pipeline inventory 41834
168 Postponement 14961
169 Process Bottleneck 5989
170 Process Checklist Template 6676
171 Process Yield 19809
172 Product ID 15574
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10163
174 Production Capacity 26911
175 Production Orientation 25206
176 Production Planning 35375
177 Production Related Materials 7251
178 Production Scheduling 34877
179 Purchasing 22087
180 Quality Audit 6841
 
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