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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) 38221
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49602
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7586
84 Efficient Frontier 25415
85 Engineer-to-Order 31689
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16377
87 Erlang B Formula 9320
88 ETD 8304
89 Ex Works 7812
90 Exception Rate 13444
91 Exponential smoothing 9805
92 External Growth 10037
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9397
94 Field Services 7723
95 Field Warehouse 10346
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8727
97 Fishbone Diagram 14569
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26961
99 Flow Through Distribution 12279
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8139
101 FOB Destination 12987
102 Forward buying 30033
103 Freight Charge 10294
104 Freight Consolidation 7500
105 Gantt Chart 8267
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11695
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29531
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12648
109 Hub 23376
110 Idle Time 8041
111 Import/Export License 8684
112 In Bond Shipment 13904
113 Inbound Logistics 13544
114 Interstate System 10975
115 Inventory Costs 53505
116 Inventory in Transit 16403
117 Inventory Management 54621
118 Inventory Planning System 9753
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22250
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42552
121 JIT 2 18406
122 Job Production 27531
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9024
124 Kanban Squares 6809
125 Laid-Down Cost 10133
126 Lean Office 6009
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10839
128 Lee's Notation 8543
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14181
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37128
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9228
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7413
133 Logistics Channel 22861
134 Logistics Costs 26615
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6666
136 Manifest 10504
137 Marks and Numbers 12572
138 Material Planning 35039
139 Materials Management 26325
140 Milk Run 43050
141 Mini Land Bridge 14387
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9511
143 Modal Split 15378
144 Movement of Goods 19426
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31559
146 North West Corner Method 16834
147 Numeric Distribution 14178
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28500
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48366
150 Operational Efficiency 9914
151 Operational Objectives 13318
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18103
153 Operational Sustainability 27883
154 Operations Management 20606
155 Order Cancellation 10785
156 Order Cycle 18414
157 Order Cycle Time 23477
158 Order Fill Rate 33977
159 Order Fulfillment 6449
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10278
161 Parts Standardization 9284
162 PDCA Cycle 7948
163 Peak Load Pricing 13341
164 Perfect Order 13190
165 Physical Distribution 24890
166 Pick List 9817
167 Pipeline inventory 42323
168 Postponement 15266
169 Process Bottleneck 6259
170 Process Checklist Template 6902
171 Process Yield 20112
172 Product ID 15870
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10349
174 Production Capacity 27647
175 Production Orientation 25601
176 Production Planning 36493
177 Production Related Materials 7662
178 Production Scheduling 35963
179 Purchasing 22722
180 Quality Audit 7133
 
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