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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) 38197
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49523
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7569
84 Efficient Frontier 25373
85 Engineer-to-Order 31647
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16331
87 Erlang B Formula 9305
88 ETD 8282
89 Ex Works 7799
90 Exception Rate 13417
91 Exponential smoothing 9781
92 External Growth 10016
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9377
94 Field Services 7710
95 Field Warehouse 10231
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8703
97 Fishbone Diagram 14552
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26923
99 Flow Through Distribution 12256
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8120
101 FOB Destination 12967
102 Forward buying 30003
103 Freight Charge 10276
104 Freight Consolidation 7487
105 Gantt Chart 8252
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11668
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29498
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12627
109 Hub 23342
110 Idle Time 8019
111 Import/Export License 8663
112 In Bond Shipment 13870
113 Inbound Logistics 13513
114 Interstate System 10956
115 Inventory Costs 53423
116 Inventory in Transit 16371
117 Inventory Management 54561
118 Inventory Planning System 9740
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22228
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42452
121 JIT 2 18389
122 Job Production 27430
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9002
124 Kanban Squares 6793
125 Laid-Down Cost 10106
126 Lean Office 5985
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10830
128 Lee's Notation 8525
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14147
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37062
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9202
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7401
133 Logistics Channel 22829
134 Logistics Costs 26578
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6648
136 Manifest 10485
137 Marks and Numbers 12550
138 Material Planning 35005
139 Materials Management 26299
140 Milk Run 43001
141 Mini Land Bridge 14366
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9484
143 Modal Split 15349
144 Movement of Goods 19393
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31496
146 North West Corner Method 16822
147 Numeric Distribution 14148
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28467
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48316
150 Operational Efficiency 9897
151 Operational Objectives 13295
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18089
153 Operational Sustainability 27844
154 Operations Management 20564
155 Order Cancellation 10759
156 Order Cycle 18389
157 Order Cycle Time 23449
158 Order Fill Rate 33946
159 Order Fulfillment 6435
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10255
161 Parts Standardization 9269
162 PDCA Cycle 7939
163 Peak Load Pricing 13325
164 Perfect Order 13142
165 Physical Distribution 24857
166 Pick List 9795
167 Pipeline inventory 42291
168 Postponement 15243
169 Process Bottleneck 6247
170 Process Checklist Template 6886
171 Process Yield 20090
172 Product ID 15847
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10337
174 Production Capacity 27597
175 Production Orientation 25567
176 Production Planning 36415
177 Production Related Materials 7636
178 Production Scheduling 35892
179 Purchasing 22669
180 Quality Audit 7111
 
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