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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) 37987
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48978
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7433
84 Efficient Frontier 25040
85 Engineer-to-Order 31315
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16004
87 Erlang B Formula 9133
88 ETD 8111
89 Ex Works 7689
90 Exception Rate 13188
91 Exponential smoothing 9634
92 External Growth 9848
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9233
94 Field Services 7599
95 Field Warehouse 9715
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8478
97 Fishbone Diagram 14348
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26586
99 Flow Through Distribution 12079
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7956
101 FOB Destination 12721
102 Forward buying 29776
103 Freight Charge 10125
104 Freight Consolidation 7352
105 Gantt Chart 8133
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11477
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29229
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12454
109 Hub 23098
110 Idle Time 7888
111 Import/Export License 8508
112 In Bond Shipment 13651
113 Inbound Logistics 13254
114 Interstate System 10798
115 Inventory Costs 52868
116 Inventory in Transit 16139
117 Inventory Management 53956
118 Inventory Planning System 9610
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21981
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41553
121 JIT 2 18246
122 Job Production 26775
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8803
124 Kanban Squares 6653
125 Laid-Down Cost 9917
126 Lean Office 5836
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10759
128 Lee's Notation 8385
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13878
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36410
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8987
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7298
133 Logistics Channel 22602
134 Logistics Costs 26333
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6557
136 Manifest 10277
137 Marks and Numbers 12289
138 Material Planning 34650
139 Materials Management 26062
140 Milk Run 42549
141 Mini Land Bridge 14172
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9242
143 Modal Split 15046
144 Movement of Goods 19171
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31139
146 North West Corner Method 16668
147 Numeric Distribution 13890
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28188
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47931
150 Operational Efficiency 9727
151 Operational Objectives 13140
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17957
153 Operational Sustainability 27552
154 Operations Management 19999
155 Order Cancellation 10467
156 Order Cycle 18199
157 Order Cycle Time 23243
158 Order Fill Rate 33690
159 Order Fulfillment 6314
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10063
161 Parts Standardization 9109
162 PDCA Cycle 7834
163 Peak Load Pricing 13170
164 Perfect Order 12878
165 Physical Distribution 24616
166 Pick List 9638
167 Pipeline inventory 42013
168 Postponement 15063
169 Process Bottleneck 6081
170 Process Checklist Template 6732
171 Process Yield 19907
172 Product ID 15662
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10216
174 Production Capacity 27203
175 Production Orientation 25311
176 Production Planning 35760
177 Production Related Materials 7356
178 Production Scheduling 35209
179 Purchasing 22294
180 Quality Audit 6945
 
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