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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) 38186
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49488
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7562
84 Efficient Frontier 25355
85 Engineer-to-Order 31628
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16312
87 Erlang B Formula 9294
88 ETD 8273
89 Ex Works 7790
90 Exception Rate 13404
91 Exponential smoothing 9775
92 External Growth 10009
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9373
94 Field Services 7703
95 Field Warehouse 10174
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8688
97 Fishbone Diagram 14539
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26899
99 Flow Through Distribution 12245
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8110
101 FOB Destination 12956
102 Forward buying 29984
103 Freight Charge 10266
104 Freight Consolidation 7480
105 Gantt Chart 8244
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11655
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29476
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12620
109 Hub 23325
110 Idle Time 8009
111 Import/Export License 8657
112 In Bond Shipment 13853
113 Inbound Logistics 13495
114 Interstate System 10946
115 Inventory Costs 53394
116 Inventory in Transit 16356
117 Inventory Management 54527
118 Inventory Planning System 9733
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22214
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42390
121 JIT 2 18380
122 Job Production 27398
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8991
124 Kanban Squares 6784
125 Laid-Down Cost 10094
126 Lean Office 5974
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10828
128 Lee's Notation 8516
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14128
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37028
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9185
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7396
133 Logistics Channel 22817
134 Logistics Costs 26560
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6644
136 Manifest 10473
137 Marks and Numbers 12540
138 Material Planning 34990
139 Materials Management 26288
140 Milk Run 42971
141 Mini Land Bridge 14352
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9469
143 Modal Split 15337
144 Movement of Goods 19378
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31467
146 North West Corner Method 16811
147 Numeric Distribution 14132
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28454
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48293
150 Operational Efficiency 9887
151 Operational Objectives 13288
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18083
153 Operational Sustainability 27820
154 Operations Management 20528
155 Order Cancellation 10743
156 Order Cycle 18378
157 Order Cycle Time 23435
158 Order Fill Rate 33934
159 Order Fulfillment 6431
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10239
161 Parts Standardization 9260
162 PDCA Cycle 7935
163 Peak Load Pricing 13312
164 Perfect Order 13130
165 Physical Distribution 24844
166 Pick List 9787
167 Pipeline inventory 42276
168 Postponement 15230
169 Process Bottleneck 6239
170 Process Checklist Template 6879
171 Process Yield 20078
172 Product ID 15837
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10334
174 Production Capacity 27566
175 Production Orientation 25551
176 Production Planning 36376
177 Production Related Materials 7620
178 Production Scheduling 35851
179 Purchasing 22641
180 Quality Audit 7101
 
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