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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) 38245
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49671
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7605
84 Efficient Frontier 25443
85 Engineer-to-Order 31715
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16433
87 Erlang B Formula 9334
88 ETD 8318
89 Ex Works 7825
90 Exception Rate 13471
91 Exponential smoothing 9818
92 External Growth 10060
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9446
94 Field Services 7735
95 Field Warehouse 10401
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8743
97 Fishbone Diagram 14590
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26998
99 Flow Through Distribution 12296
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8164
101 FOB Destination 13007
102 Forward buying 30083
103 Freight Charge 10345
104 Freight Consolidation 7516
105 Gantt Chart 8279
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11718
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29562
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12667
109 Hub 23399
110 Idle Time 8058
111 Import/Export License 8702
112 In Bond Shipment 13930
113 Inbound Logistics 13566
114 Interstate System 10990
115 Inventory Costs 53567
116 Inventory in Transit 16460
117 Inventory Management 54699
118 Inventory Planning System 9802
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22275
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42626
121 JIT 2 18423
122 Job Production 27607
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9075
124 Kanban Squares 6819
125 Laid-Down Cost 10161
126 Lean Office 6061
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10846
128 Lee's Notation 8555
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14206
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37194
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9249
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7461
133 Logistics Channel 22881
134 Logistics Costs 26646
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6680
136 Manifest 10518
137 Marks and Numbers 12588
138 Material Planning 35073
139 Materials Management 26352
140 Milk Run 43078
141 Mini Land Bridge 14406
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9538
143 Modal Split 15398
144 Movement of Goods 19461
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31603
146 North West Corner Method 16851
147 Numeric Distribution 14206
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28530
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48405
150 Operational Efficiency 9933
151 Operational Objectives 13340
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18113
153 Operational Sustainability 27940
154 Operations Management 20671
155 Order Cancellation 10808
156 Order Cycle 18436
157 Order Cycle Time 23499
158 Order Fill Rate 34008
159 Order Fulfillment 6468
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10301
161 Parts Standardization 9303
162 PDCA Cycle 7995
163 Peak Load Pricing 13357
164 Perfect Order 13209
165 Physical Distribution 24918
166 Pick List 9831
167 Pipeline inventory 42348
168 Postponement 15278
169 Process Bottleneck 6284
170 Process Checklist Template 6920
171 Process Yield 20158
172 Product ID 15891
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10358
174 Production Capacity 27681
175 Production Orientation 25642
176 Production Planning 36556
177 Production Related Materials 7684
178 Production Scheduling 36012
179 Purchasing 22787
180 Quality Audit 7154
 
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