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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) 34855
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 42502
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 5919
84 Efficient Frontier 21553
85 Engineer-to-Order 27629
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 13425
87 Erlang B Formula 7241
88 ETD 6485
89 Ex Works 6229
90 Exception Rate 10426
91 Exponential smoothing 8079
92 External Growth 8189
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 7606
94 Field Services 6228
95 Field Warehouse 7895
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 5572
97 Fishbone Diagram 12458
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 22339
99 Flow Through Distribution 10185
100 FOB (Free On Board) 6210
101 FOB Destination 10150
102 Forward buying 27140
103 Freight Charge 8800
104 Freight Consolidation 5911
105 Gantt Chart 6964
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 9150
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 26160
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 10834
109 Hub 20520
110 Idle Time 6540
111 Import/Export License 6772
112 In Bond Shipment 11627
113 Inbound Logistics 11418
114 Interstate System 9459
115 Inventory Costs 45588
116 Inventory in Transit 13402
117 Inventory Management 45863
118 Inventory Planning System 7636
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 19272
120 JIT (Just In Time) 32364
121 JIT 2 16794
122 Job Production 19632
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 7215
124 Kanban Squares 5365
125 Laid-Down Cost 8195
126 Lean Office 4778
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 9766
128 Lee's Notation 6629
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 11044
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 32202
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 7109
132 Linear and Logistics Model 5956
133 Logistics Channel 20168
134 Logistics Costs 23698
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 5375
136 Manifest 8140
137 Marks and Numbers 9985
138 Material Planning 29198
139 Materials Management 23097
140 Milk Run 37174
141 Mini Land Bridge 12476
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 7805
143 Modal Split 12632
144 Movement of Goods 16089
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 27606
146 North West Corner Method 15182
147 Numeric Distribution 11163
148 One Level Distribution Channel 25342
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 44067
150 Operational Efficiency 8300
151 Operational Objectives 11565
152 Operational Performance Measurements 16420
153 Operational Sustainability 24492
154 Operations Management 14231
155 Order Cancellation 8359
156 Order Cycle 16645
157 Order Cycle Time 21123
158 Order Fill Rate 31377
159 Order Fulfillment 5080
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 8699
161 Parts Standardization 7766
162 PDCA Cycle 6738
163 Peak Load Pricing 11880
164 Perfect Order 10731
165 Physical Distribution 21794
166 Pick List 8110
167 Pipeline inventory 38885
168 Postponement 13292
169 Process Bottleneck 4987
170 Process Checklist Template 5780
171 Process Yield 17470
172 Product ID 13827
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 9069
174 Production Capacity 21185
175 Production Orientation 22698
176 Production Planning 27361
177 Production Related Materials 5523
178 Production Scheduling 28530
179 Purchasing 17589
180 Quality Audit 5382
 
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