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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) 38437
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50144
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7729
84 Efficient Frontier 25717
85 Engineer-to-Order 31960
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16780
87 Erlang B Formula 9464
88 ETD 8440
89 Ex Works 7927
90 Exception Rate 13663
91 Exponential smoothing 9933
92 External Growth 10221
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9647
94 Field Services 7825
95 Field Warehouse 10955
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8959
97 Fishbone Diagram 14757
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27310
99 Flow Through Distribution 12465
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8317
101 FOB Destination 13207
102 Forward buying 30400
103 Freight Charge 10515
104 Freight Consolidation 7624
105 Gantt Chart 8374
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11901
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29757
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12825
109 Hub 23618
110 Idle Time 8172
111 Import/Export License 8840
112 In Bond Shipment 14117
113 Inbound Logistics 13740
114 Interstate System 11126
115 Inventory Costs 54067
116 Inventory in Transit 16715
117 Inventory Management 55232
118 Inventory Planning System 9983
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22493
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43374
121 JIT 2 18564
122 Job Production 28214
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9265
124 Kanban Squares 6965
125 Laid-Down Cost 10367
126 Lean Office 6245
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10918
128 Lee's Notation 8654
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14446
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37631
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9430
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7615
133 Logistics Channel 23064
134 Logistics Costs 26873
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6763
136 Manifest 10684
137 Marks and Numbers 12794
138 Material Planning 35355
139 Materials Management 26547
140 Milk Run 43363
141 Mini Land Bridge 14557
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9729
143 Modal Split 15594
144 Movement of Goods 19686
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31923
146 North West Corner Method 16974
147 Numeric Distribution 14390
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28746
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48799
150 Operational Efficiency 10055
151 Operational Objectives 13484
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18212
153 Operational Sustainability 28283
154 Operations Management 21095
155 Order Cancellation 10977
156 Order Cycle 18579
157 Order Cycle Time 23673
158 Order Fill Rate 34222
159 Order Fulfillment 6573
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10469
161 Parts Standardization 9424
162 PDCA Cycle 8133
163 Peak Load Pricing 13473
164 Perfect Order 13424
165 Physical Distribution 25163
166 Pick List 9970
167 Pipeline inventory 42583
168 Postponement 15442
169 Process Bottleneck 6416
170 Process Checklist Template 7019
171 Process Yield 20370
172 Product ID 16062
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10477
174 Production Capacity 28014
175 Production Orientation 25890
176 Production Planning 37070
177 Production Related Materials 7887
178 Production Scheduling 36431
179 Purchasing 23188
180 Quality Audit 7307
 
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