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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) 38149
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49395
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7535
84 Efficient Frontier 25291
85 Engineer-to-Order 31566
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16254
87 Erlang B Formula 9261
88 ETD 8245
89 Ex Works 7773
90 Exception Rate 13355
91 Exponential smoothing 9751
92 External Growth 9970
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9342
94 Field Services 7682
95 Field Warehouse 9978
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8647
97 Fishbone Diagram 14507
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26838
99 Flow Through Distribution 12210
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8079
101 FOB Destination 12923
102 Forward buying 29937
103 Freight Charge 10239
104 Freight Consolidation 7452
105 Gantt Chart 8222
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11619
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29423
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12581
109 Hub 23280
110 Idle Time 7984
111 Import/Export License 8628
112 In Bond Shipment 13803
113 Inbound Logistics 13451
114 Interstate System 10913
115 Inventory Costs 53299
116 Inventory in Transit 16313
117 Inventory Management 54433
118 Inventory Planning System 9712
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22163
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42225
121 JIT 2 18351
122 Job Production 27280
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8958
124 Kanban Squares 6760
125 Laid-Down Cost 10056
126 Lean Office 5950
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10807
128 Lee's Notation 8493
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14078
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36903
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9146
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7376
133 Logistics Channel 22772
134 Logistics Costs 26511
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6626
136 Manifest 10438
137 Marks and Numbers 12485
138 Material Planning 34936
139 Materials Management 26241
140 Milk Run 42890
141 Mini Land Bridge 14320
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9418
143 Modal Split 15283
144 Movement of Goods 19336
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31398
146 North West Corner Method 16784
147 Numeric Distribution 14074
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28405
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48214
150 Operational Efficiency 9855
151 Operational Objectives 13259
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18060
153 Operational Sustainability 27759
154 Operations Management 20449
155 Order Cancellation 10702
156 Order Cycle 18349
157 Order Cycle Time 23406
158 Order Fill Rate 33883
159 Order Fulfillment 6402
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10200
161 Parts Standardization 9226
162 PDCA Cycle 7918
163 Peak Load Pricing 13288
164 Perfect Order 13074
165 Physical Distribution 24808
166 Pick List 9757
167 Pipeline inventory 42224
168 Postponement 15195
169 Process Bottleneck 6206
170 Process Checklist Template 6850
171 Process Yield 20048
172 Product ID 15806
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10313
174 Production Capacity 27479
175 Production Orientation 25494
176 Production Planning 36249
177 Production Related Materials 7584
178 Production Scheduling 35664
179 Purchasing 22567
180 Quality Audit 7069
 
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