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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) 38306
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49829
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7643
84 Efficient Frontier 25550
85 Engineer-to-Order 31813
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16587
87 Erlang B Formula 9379
88 ETD 8356
89 Ex Works 7861
90 Exception Rate 13535
91 Exponential smoothing 9850
92 External Growth 10114
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9545
94 Field Services 7764
95 Field Warehouse 10594
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8817
97 Fishbone Diagram 14645
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27111
99 Flow Through Distribution 12350
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8207
101 FOB Destination 13082
102 Forward buying 30243
103 Freight Charge 10435
104 Freight Consolidation 7558
105 Gantt Chart 8317
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11769
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29633
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12726
109 Hub 23484
110 Idle Time 8098
111 Import/Export License 8751
112 In Bond Shipment 14008
113 Inbound Logistics 13625
114 Interstate System 11038
115 Inventory Costs 53767
116 Inventory in Transit 16574
117 Inventory Management 54928
118 Inventory Planning System 9898
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22345
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42953
121 JIT 2 18478
122 Job Production 27827
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9171
124 Kanban Squares 6861
125 Laid-Down Cost 10240
126 Lean Office 6150
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10876
128 Lee's Notation 8591
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14291
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37379
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9317
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7551
133 Logistics Channel 22955
134 Logistics Costs 26731
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6712
136 Manifest 10572
137 Marks and Numbers 12654
138 Material Planning 35188
139 Materials Management 26417
140 Milk Run 43176
141 Mini Land Bridge 14451
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9602
143 Modal Split 15478
144 Movement of Goods 19528
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31740
146 North West Corner Method 16895
147 Numeric Distribution 14271
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28603
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48533
150 Operational Efficiency 9973
151 Operational Objectives 13391
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18151
153 Operational Sustainability 28109
154 Operations Management 20901
155 Order Cancellation 10869
156 Order Cycle 18484
157 Order Cycle Time 23558
158 Order Fill Rate 34087
159 Order Fulfillment 6498
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10356
161 Parts Standardization 9349
162 PDCA Cycle 8078
163 Peak Load Pricing 13396
164 Perfect Order 13289
165 Physical Distribution 25010
166 Pick List 9876
167 Pipeline inventory 42430
168 Postponement 15324
169 Process Bottleneck 6324
170 Process Checklist Template 6954
171 Process Yield 20269
172 Product ID 15953
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10396
174 Production Capacity 27792
175 Production Orientation 25723
176 Production Planning 36748
177 Production Related Materials 7735
178 Production Scheduling 36178
179 Purchasing 22958
180 Quality Audit 7205
 
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