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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) 38128
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49342
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7522
84 Efficient Frontier 25268
85 Engineer-to-Order 31541
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16224
87 Erlang B Formula 9241
88 ETD 8227
89 Ex Works 7761
90 Exception Rate 13334
91 Exponential smoothing 9738
92 External Growth 9954
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9333
94 Field Services 7672
95 Field Warehouse 9896
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8634
97 Fishbone Diagram 14496
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26811
99 Flow Through Distribution 12196
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8064
101 FOB Destination 12899
102 Forward buying 29909
103 Freight Charge 10228
104 Freight Consolidation 7437
105 Gantt Chart 8211
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11599
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29394
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12570
109 Hub 23257
110 Idle Time 7974
111 Import/Export License 8611
112 In Bond Shipment 13780
113 Inbound Logistics 13426
114 Interstate System 10899
115 Inventory Costs 53246
116 Inventory in Transit 16296
117 Inventory Management 54379
118 Inventory Planning System 9700
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22144
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42149
121 JIT 2 18333
122 Job Production 27221
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8937
124 Kanban Squares 6748
125 Laid-Down Cost 10039
126 Lean Office 5939
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8473
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14057
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36846
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9119
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7367
133 Logistics Channel 22755
134 Logistics Costs 26493
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6618
136 Manifest 10419
137 Marks and Numbers 12456
138 Material Planning 34919
139 Materials Management 26223
140 Milk Run 42852
141 Mini Land Bridge 14300
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9394
143 Modal Split 15258
144 Movement of Goods 19317
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31367
146 North West Corner Method 16771
147 Numeric Distribution 14046
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28385
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48177
150 Operational Efficiency 9842
151 Operational Objectives 13245
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18047
153 Operational Sustainability 27734
154 Operations Management 20395
155 Order Cancellation 10675
156 Order Cycle 18333
157 Order Cycle Time 23393
158 Order Fill Rate 33862
159 Order Fulfillment 6391
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10185
161 Parts Standardization 9214
162 PDCA Cycle 7910
163 Peak Load Pricing 13271
164 Perfect Order 13042
165 Physical Distribution 24786
166 Pick List 9741
167 Pipeline inventory 42202
168 Postponement 15174
169 Process Bottleneck 6191
170 Process Checklist Template 6837
171 Process Yield 20031
172 Product ID 15791
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10300
174 Production Capacity 27442
175 Production Orientation 25463
176 Production Planning 36211
177 Production Related Materials 7556
178 Production Scheduling 35615
179 Purchasing 22534
180 Quality Audit 7059
 
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