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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) 38201
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49528
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7570
84 Efficient Frontier 25376
85 Engineer-to-Order 31649
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16333
87 Erlang B Formula 9305
88 ETD 8284
89 Ex Works 7800
90 Exception Rate 13420
91 Exponential smoothing 9785
92 External Growth 10018
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9379
94 Field Services 7710
95 Field Warehouse 10245
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8704
97 Fishbone Diagram 14554
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26926
99 Flow Through Distribution 12258
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8122
101 FOB Destination 12967
102 Forward buying 30005
103 Freight Charge 10277
104 Freight Consolidation 7487
105 Gantt Chart 8255
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11671
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29500
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12628
109 Hub 23347
110 Idle Time 8022
111 Import/Export License 8665
112 In Bond Shipment 13874
113 Inbound Logistics 13515
114 Interstate System 10957
115 Inventory Costs 53432
116 Inventory in Transit 16376
117 Inventory Management 54568
118 Inventory Planning System 9740
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22230
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42460
121 JIT 2 18391
122 Job Production 27443
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9003
124 Kanban Squares 6794
125 Laid-Down Cost 10108
126 Lean Office 5986
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10831
128 Lee's Notation 8527
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14151
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37072
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9202
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7402
133 Logistics Channel 22831
134 Logistics Costs 26578
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6649
136 Manifest 10486
137 Marks and Numbers 12554
138 Material Planning 35008
139 Materials Management 26302
140 Milk Run 43003
141 Mini Land Bridge 14370
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9489
143 Modal Split 15352
144 Movement of Goods 19395
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31501
146 North West Corner Method 16823
147 Numeric Distribution 14149
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28471
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48319
150 Operational Efficiency 9900
151 Operational Objectives 13298
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18090
153 Operational Sustainability 27846
154 Operations Management 20572
155 Order Cancellation 10760
156 Order Cycle 18390
157 Order Cycle Time 23451
158 Order Fill Rate 33950
159 Order Fulfillment 6436
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10259
161 Parts Standardization 9271
162 PDCA Cycle 7940
163 Peak Load Pricing 13325
164 Perfect Order 13144
165 Physical Distribution 24862
166 Pick List 9795
167 Pipeline inventory 42294
168 Postponement 15247
169 Process Bottleneck 6248
170 Process Checklist Template 6887
171 Process Yield 20092
172 Product ID 15851
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10337
174 Production Capacity 27599
175 Production Orientation 25570
176 Production Planning 36421
177 Production Related Materials 7637
178 Production Scheduling 35893
179 Purchasing 22677
180 Quality Audit 7113
 
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