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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) 38365
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49985
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7687
84 Efficient Frontier 25624
85 Engineer-to-Order 31884
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16674
87 Erlang B Formula 9420
88 ETD 8395
89 Ex Works 7888
90 Exception Rate 13598
91 Exponential smoothing 9893
92 External Growth 10170
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9594
94 Field Services 7794
95 Field Warehouse 10761
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8889
97 Fishbone Diagram 14694
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27210
99 Flow Through Distribution 12405
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8264
101 FOB Destination 13146
102 Forward buying 30332
103 Freight Charge 10481
104 Freight Consolidation 7594
105 Gantt Chart 8346
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11828
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29698
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12773
109 Hub 23557
110 Idle Time 8138
111 Import/Export License 8803
112 In Bond Shipment 14070
113 Inbound Logistics 13683
114 Interstate System 11086
115 Inventory Costs 53934
116 Inventory in Transit 16638
117 Inventory Management 55073
118 Inventory Planning System 9942
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22413
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43163
121 JIT 2 18520
122 Job Production 28014
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9215
124 Kanban Squares 6918
125 Laid-Down Cost 10302
126 Lean Office 6200
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10899
128 Lee's Notation 8629
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14369
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37489
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9370
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7581
133 Logistics Channel 23011
134 Logistics Costs 26803
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6736
136 Manifest 10634
137 Marks and Numbers 12723
138 Material Planning 35273
139 Materials Management 26482
140 Milk Run 43277
141 Mini Land Bridge 14501
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9667
143 Modal Split 15537
144 Movement of Goods 19591
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31836
146 North West Corner Method 16932
147 Numeric Distribution 14330
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28676
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48668
150 Operational Efficiency 10016
151 Operational Objectives 13444
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18183
153 Operational Sustainability 28195
154 Operations Management 20993
155 Order Cancellation 10921
156 Order Cycle 18530
157 Order Cycle Time 23619
158 Order Fill Rate 34151
159 Order Fulfillment 6537
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10412
161 Parts Standardization 9391
162 PDCA Cycle 8109
163 Peak Load Pricing 13436
164 Perfect Order 13354
165 Physical Distribution 25089
166 Pick List 9924
167 Pipeline inventory 42511
168 Postponement 15370
169 Process Bottleneck 6374
170 Process Checklist Template 6991
171 Process Yield 20318
172 Product ID 16011
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10434
174 Production Capacity 27902
175 Production Orientation 25793
176 Production Planning 36917
177 Production Related Materials 7802
178 Production Scheduling 36300
179 Purchasing 23078
180 Quality Audit 7252
 
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