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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) 38342
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49942
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7672
84 Efficient Frontier 25596
85 Engineer-to-Order 31859
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16646
87 Erlang B Formula 9407
88 ETD 8385
89 Ex Works 7879
90 Exception Rate 13577
91 Exponential smoothing 9877
92 External Growth 10152
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9578
94 Field Services 7787
95 Field Warehouse 10707
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8866
97 Fishbone Diagram 14680
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27185
99 Flow Through Distribution 12386
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8246
101 FOB Destination 13127
102 Forward buying 30306
103 Freight Charge 10468
104 Freight Consolidation 7586
105 Gantt Chart 8337
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11807
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29677
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12758
109 Hub 23535
110 Idle Time 8126
111 Import/Export License 8790
112 In Bond Shipment 14049
113 Inbound Logistics 13665
114 Interstate System 11075
115 Inventory Costs 53878
116 Inventory in Transit 16616
117 Inventory Management 55024
118 Inventory Planning System 9925
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22390
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43114
121 JIT 2 18510
122 Job Production 27952
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9203
124 Kanban Squares 6900
125 Laid-Down Cost 10285
126 Lean Office 6185
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10892
128 Lee's Notation 8624
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14346
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37452
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9353
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7574
133 Logistics Channel 22993
134 Logistics Costs 26777
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6725
136 Manifest 10614
137 Marks and Numbers 12703
138 Material Planning 35245
139 Materials Management 26464
140 Milk Run 43243
141 Mini Land Bridge 14488
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9650
143 Modal Split 15517
144 Movement of Goods 19575
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31813
146 North West Corner Method 16919
147 Numeric Distribution 14313
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28651
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48624
150 Operational Efficiency 10002
151 Operational Objectives 13427
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18177
153 Operational Sustainability 28174
154 Operations Management 20966
155 Order Cancellation 10907
156 Order Cycle 18521
157 Order Cycle Time 23598
158 Order Fill Rate 34135
159 Order Fulfillment 6524
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10395
161 Parts Standardization 9380
162 PDCA Cycle 8100
163 Peak Load Pricing 13425
164 Perfect Order 13335
165 Physical Distribution 25062
166 Pick List 9908
167 Pipeline inventory 42484
168 Postponement 15360
169 Process Bottleneck 6360
170 Process Checklist Template 6981
171 Process Yield 20306
172 Product ID 15994
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10425
174 Production Capacity 27872
175 Production Orientation 25773
176 Production Planning 36861
177 Production Related Materials 7775
178 Production Scheduling 36267
179 Purchasing 23038
180 Quality Audit 7242
 
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