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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) 38180
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49469
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7558
84 Efficient Frontier 25343
85 Engineer-to-Order 31615
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16300
87 Erlang B Formula 9284
88 ETD 8269
89 Ex Works 7789
90 Exception Rate 13398
91 Exponential smoothing 9771
92 External Growth 9999
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9364
94 Field Services 7699
95 Field Warehouse 10132
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8684
97 Fishbone Diagram 14530
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26883
99 Flow Through Distribution 12241
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8104
101 FOB Destination 12951
102 Forward buying 29974
103 Freight Charge 10261
104 Freight Consolidation 7474
105 Gantt Chart 8237
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11649
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29465
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12613
109 Hub 23318
110 Idle Time 8004
111 Import/Export License 8652
112 In Bond Shipment 13841
113 Inbound Logistics 13486
114 Interstate System 10938
115 Inventory Costs 53373
116 Inventory in Transit 16349
117 Inventory Management 54507
118 Inventory Planning System 9730
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22206
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42362
121 JIT 2 18375
122 Job Production 27369
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8983
124 Kanban Squares 6779
125 Laid-Down Cost 10086
126 Lean Office 5969
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10824
128 Lee's Notation 8513
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14119
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37001
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9177
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7392
133 Logistics Channel 22808
134 Logistics Costs 26552
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6640
136 Manifest 10466
137 Marks and Numbers 12528
138 Material Planning 34983
139 Materials Management 26282
140 Milk Run 42951
141 Mini Land Bridge 14347
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9460
143 Modal Split 15329
144 Movement of Goods 19369
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31447
146 North West Corner Method 16807
147 Numeric Distribution 14119
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28444
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48275
150 Operational Efficiency 9880
151 Operational Objectives 13282
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18079
153 Operational Sustainability 27809
154 Operations Management 20517
155 Order Cancellation 10736
156 Order Cycle 18373
157 Order Cycle Time 23430
158 Order Fill Rate 33923
159 Order Fulfillment 6423
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10230
161 Parts Standardization 9253
162 PDCA Cycle 7933
163 Peak Load Pricing 13308
164 Perfect Order 13114
165 Physical Distribution 24840
166 Pick List 9781
167 Pipeline inventory 42265
168 Postponement 15223
169 Process Bottleneck 6232
170 Process Checklist Template 6875
171 Process Yield 20073
172 Product ID 15831
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10330
174 Production Capacity 27547
175 Production Orientation 25542
176 Production Planning 36352
177 Production Related Materials 7612
178 Production Scheduling 35817
179 Purchasing 22622
180 Quality Audit 7098
 
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