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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) 38166
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49444
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7545
84 Efficient Frontier 25315
85 Engineer-to-Order 31593
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16274
87 Erlang B Formula 9271
88 ETD 8263
89 Ex Works 7781
90 Exception Rate 13378
91 Exponential smoothing 9762
92 External Growth 9988
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9357
94 Field Services 7692
95 Field Warehouse 10068
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8669
97 Fishbone Diagram 14519
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26866
99 Flow Through Distribution 12229
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8090
101 FOB Destination 12940
102 Forward buying 29958
103 Freight Charge 10251
104 Freight Consolidation 7465
105 Gantt Chart 8228
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11637
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29452
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12601
109 Hub 23299
110 Idle Time 7996
111 Import/Export License 8642
112 In Bond Shipment 13821
113 Inbound Logistics 13472
114 Interstate System 10927
115 Inventory Costs 53346
116 Inventory in Transit 16331
117 Inventory Management 54476
118 Inventory Planning System 9720
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22187
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42306
121 JIT 2 18364
122 Job Production 27338
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8970
124 Kanban Squares 6769
125 Laid-Down Cost 10069
126 Lean Office 5961
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10812
128 Lee's Notation 8503
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14104
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36952
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9159
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7381
133 Logistics Channel 22794
134 Logistics Costs 26535
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6632
136 Manifest 10454
137 Marks and Numbers 12508
138 Material Planning 34963
139 Materials Management 26263
140 Milk Run 42931
141 Mini Land Bridge 14331
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9441
143 Modal Split 15311
144 Movement of Goods 19355
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31426
146 North West Corner Method 16799
147 Numeric Distribution 14105
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28430
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48249
150 Operational Efficiency 9869
151 Operational Objectives 13270
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18071
153 Operational Sustainability 27787
154 Operations Management 20490
155 Order Cancellation 10722
156 Order Cycle 18362
157 Order Cycle Time 23419
158 Order Fill Rate 33904
159 Order Fulfillment 6414
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10216
161 Parts Standardization 9238
162 PDCA Cycle 7925
163 Peak Load Pricing 13296
164 Perfect Order 13101
165 Physical Distribution 24825
166 Pick List 9769
167 Pipeline inventory 42249
168 Postponement 15214
169 Process Bottleneck 6222
170 Process Checklist Template 6863
171 Process Yield 20062
172 Product ID 15822
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10323
174 Production Capacity 27516
175 Production Orientation 25523
176 Production Planning 36311
177 Production Related Materials 7600
178 Production Scheduling 35753
179 Purchasing 22602
180 Quality Audit 7081
 
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