1. Business Concepts
    2. ›
  2. Operations and Supply Chain

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.

Title Filter 
# Name Hits
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 38034
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49110
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7456
84 Efficient Frontier 25104
85 Engineer-to-Order 31392
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16070
87 Erlang B Formula 9159
88 ETD 8145
89 Ex Works 7713
90 Exception Rate 13226
91 Exponential smoothing 9666
92 External Growth 9871
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9261
94 Field Services 7622
95 Field Warehouse 9743
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8528
97 Fishbone Diagram 14397
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26657
99 Flow Through Distribution 12112
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7984
101 FOB Destination 12782
102 Forward buying 29817
103 Freight Charge 10150
104 Freight Consolidation 7380
105 Gantt Chart 8161
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11510
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29278
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12488
109 Hub 23146
110 Idle Time 7911
111 Import/Export License 8543
112 In Bond Shipment 13702
113 Inbound Logistics 13303
114 Interstate System 10823
115 Inventory Costs 52998
116 Inventory in Transit 16191
117 Inventory Management 54075
118 Inventory Planning System 9636
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22035
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41728
121 JIT 2 18270
122 Job Production 26906
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8847
124 Kanban Squares 6685
125 Laid-Down Cost 9950
126 Lean Office 5867
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10767
128 Lee's Notation 8410
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13929
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36533
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9016
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7319
133 Logistics Channel 22645
134 Logistics Costs 26383
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6578
136 Manifest 10326
137 Marks and Numbers 12331
138 Material Planning 34734
139 Materials Management 26106
140 Milk Run 42661
141 Mini Land Bridge 14214
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9290
143 Modal Split 15106
144 Movement of Goods 19208
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31206
146 North West Corner Method 16698
147 Numeric Distribution 13940
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28248
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48004
150 Operational Efficiency 9763
151 Operational Objectives 13169
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17982
153 Operational Sustainability 27602
154 Operations Management 20123
155 Order Cancellation 10539
156 Order Cycle 18240
157 Order Cycle Time 23298
158 Order Fill Rate 33742
159 Order Fulfillment 6337
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10093
161 Parts Standardization 9140
162 PDCA Cycle 7857
163 Peak Load Pricing 13197
164 Perfect Order 12920
165 Physical Distribution 24673
166 Pick List 9675
167 Pipeline inventory 42074
168 Postponement 15096
169 Process Bottleneck 6111
170 Process Checklist Template 6754
171 Process Yield 19943
172 Product ID 15712
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10241
174 Production Capacity 27281
175 Production Orientation 25356
176 Production Planning 35910
177 Production Related Materials 7402
178 Production Scheduling 35336
179 Purchasing 22367
180 Quality Audit 6984
 
Page 1 of 3