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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) 37941
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48825
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7397
84 Efficient Frontier 24947
85 Engineer-to-Order 31243
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15929
87 Erlang B Formula 9085
88 ETD 8075
89 Ex Works 7665
90 Exception Rate 13128
91 Exponential smoothing 9599
92 External Growth 9813
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9196
94 Field Services 7578
95 Field Warehouse 9675
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8413
97 Fishbone Diagram 14296
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26501
99 Flow Through Distribution 12034
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7913
101 FOB Destination 12670
102 Forward buying 29701
103 Freight Charge 10088
104 Freight Consolidation 7311
105 Gantt Chart 8107
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11401
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29156
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12417
109 Hub 23037
110 Idle Time 7858
111 Import/Export License 8469
112 In Bond Shipment 13604
113 Inbound Logistics 13201
114 Interstate System 10770
115 Inventory Costs 52720
116 Inventory in Transit 16082
117 Inventory Management 53813
118 Inventory Planning System 9571
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21902
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41329
121 JIT 2 18200
122 Job Production 26592
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8751
124 Kanban Squares 6609
125 Laid-Down Cost 9881
126 Lean Office 5794
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10729
128 Lee's Notation 8344
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13804
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36258
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8946
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7253
133 Logistics Channel 22552
134 Logistics Costs 26270
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6527
136 Manifest 10225
137 Marks and Numbers 12251
138 Material Planning 34547
139 Materials Management 26015
140 Milk Run 42410
141 Mini Land Bridge 14122
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9170
143 Modal Split 14961
144 Movement of Goods 19114
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31051
146 North West Corner Method 16638
147 Numeric Distribution 13833
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28127
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47833
150 Operational Efficiency 9670
151 Operational Objectives 13099
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17924
153 Operational Sustainability 27467
154 Operations Management 19851
155 Order Cancellation 10402
156 Order Cycle 18159
157 Order Cycle Time 23177
158 Order Fill Rate 33612
159 Order Fulfillment 6277
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10033
161 Parts Standardization 9067
162 PDCA Cycle 7809
163 Peak Load Pricing 13114
164 Perfect Order 12805
165 Physical Distribution 24542
166 Pick List 9597
167 Pipeline inventory 41928
168 Postponement 15016
169 Process Bottleneck 6037
170 Process Checklist Template 6707
171 Process Yield 19853
172 Product ID 15622
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10185
174 Production Capacity 27054
175 Production Orientation 25256
176 Production Planning 35593
177 Production Related Materials 7304
178 Production Scheduling 35055
179 Purchasing 22196
180 Quality Audit 6893
 
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