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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) 38136
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49356
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7524
84 Efficient Frontier 25279
85 Engineer-to-Order 31552
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16234
87 Erlang B Formula 9247
88 ETD 8232
89 Ex Works 7765
90 Exception Rate 13342
91 Exponential smoothing 9741
92 External Growth 9957
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9336
94 Field Services 7674
95 Field Warehouse 9913
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8639
97 Fishbone Diagram 14500
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26822
99 Flow Through Distribution 12200
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8068
101 FOB Destination 12907
102 Forward buying 29920
103 Freight Charge 10234
104 Freight Consolidation 7442
105 Gantt Chart 8212
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11605
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29403
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12573
109 Hub 23268
110 Idle Time 7977
111 Import/Export License 8617
112 In Bond Shipment 13788
113 Inbound Logistics 13434
114 Interstate System 10904
115 Inventory Costs 53266
116 Inventory in Transit 16303
117 Inventory Management 54404
118 Inventory Planning System 9703
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22151
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42174
121 JIT 2 18341
122 Job Production 27242
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8943
124 Kanban Squares 6752
125 Laid-Down Cost 10043
126 Lean Office 5942
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8485
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14065
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36865
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9126
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7369
133 Logistics Channel 22760
134 Logistics Costs 26495
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6621
136 Manifest 10426
137 Marks and Numbers 12468
138 Material Planning 34927
139 Materials Management 26230
140 Milk Run 42868
141 Mini Land Bridge 14310
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9405
143 Modal Split 15267
144 Movement of Goods 19323
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31376
146 North West Corner Method 16775
147 Numeric Distribution 14057
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28392
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48189
150 Operational Efficiency 9848
151 Operational Objectives 13248
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18052
153 Operational Sustainability 27739
154 Operations Management 20408
155 Order Cancellation 10682
156 Order Cycle 18338
157 Order Cycle Time 23401
158 Order Fill Rate 33868
159 Order Fulfillment 6396
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10189
161 Parts Standardization 9219
162 PDCA Cycle 7912
163 Peak Load Pricing 13278
164 Perfect Order 13053
165 Physical Distribution 24793
166 Pick List 9744
167 Pipeline inventory 42208
168 Postponement 15183
169 Process Bottleneck 6195
170 Process Checklist Template 6840
171 Process Yield 20035
172 Product ID 15794
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10303
174 Production Capacity 27457
175 Production Orientation 25475
176 Production Planning 36221
177 Production Related Materials 7561
178 Production Scheduling 35633
179 Purchasing 22550
180 Quality Audit 7062
 
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