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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) 37963
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48891
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7412
84 Efficient Frontier 24987
85 Engineer-to-Order 31271
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15970
87 Erlang B Formula 9103
88 ETD 8093
89 Ex Works 7677
90 Exception Rate 13156
91 Exponential smoothing 9616
92 External Growth 9831
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9214
94 Field Services 7585
95 Field Warehouse 9694
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8439
97 Fishbone Diagram 14311
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26541
99 Flow Through Distribution 12054
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7930
101 FOB Destination 12691
102 Forward buying 29735
103 Freight Charge 10106
104 Freight Consolidation 7331
105 Gantt Chart 8120
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11430
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29194
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12431
109 Hub 23062
110 Idle Time 7870
111 Import/Export License 8489
112 In Bond Shipment 13624
113 Inbound Logistics 13226
114 Interstate System 10782
115 Inventory Costs 52786
116 Inventory in Transit 16110
117 Inventory Management 53877
118 Inventory Planning System 9590
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21938
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41433
121 JIT 2 18218
122 Job Production 26670
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8771
124 Kanban Squares 6628
125 Laid-Down Cost 9897
126 Lean Office 5811
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10743
128 Lee's Notation 8365
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13837
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36328
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8963
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7279
133 Logistics Channel 22571
134 Logistics Costs 26295
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6542
136 Manifest 10247
137 Marks and Numbers 12268
138 Material Planning 34591
139 Materials Management 26039
140 Milk Run 42467
141 Mini Land Bridge 14143
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9205
143 Modal Split 14994
144 Movement of Goods 19139
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31083
146 North West Corner Method 16654
147 Numeric Distribution 13859
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28155
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47873
150 Operational Efficiency 9691
151 Operational Objectives 13117
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17939
153 Operational Sustainability 27512
154 Operations Management 19912
155 Order Cancellation 10425
156 Order Cycle 18176
157 Order Cycle Time 23201
158 Order Fill Rate 33648
159 Order Fulfillment 6293
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10048
161 Parts Standardization 9084
162 PDCA Cycle 7822
163 Peak Load Pricing 13139
164 Perfect Order 12838
165 Physical Distribution 24570
166 Pick List 9616
167 Pipeline inventory 41958
168 Postponement 15038
169 Process Bottleneck 6056
170 Process Checklist Template 6718
171 Process Yield 19878
172 Product ID 15640
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10195
174 Production Capacity 27129
175 Production Orientation 25283
176 Production Planning 35669
177 Production Related Materials 7324
178 Production Scheduling 35120
179 Purchasing 22237
180 Quality Audit 6922
 
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