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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) 38384
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50036
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7696
84 Efficient Frontier 25647
85 Engineer-to-Order 31907
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16699
87 Erlang B Formula 9430
88 ETD 8409
89 Ex Works 7900
90 Exception Rate 13619
91 Exponential smoothing 9906
92 External Growth 10183
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9609
94 Field Services 7800
95 Field Warehouse 10820
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8907
97 Fishbone Diagram 14709
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27241
99 Flow Through Distribution 12423
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8278
101 FOB Destination 13160
102 Forward buying 30351
103 Freight Charge 10493
104 Freight Consolidation 7602
105 Gantt Chart 8354
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11845
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29713
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12789
109 Hub 23573
110 Idle Time 8148
111 Import/Export License 8815
112 In Bond Shipment 14084
113 Inbound Logistics 13698
114 Interstate System 11098
115 Inventory Costs 53976
116 Inventory in Transit 16665
117 Inventory Management 55116
118 Inventory Planning System 9951
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22436
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43213
121 JIT 2 18535
122 Job Production 28061
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9231
124 Kanban Squares 6932
125 Laid-Down Cost 10325
126 Lean Office 6212
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10904
128 Lee's Notation 8635
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14395
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37532
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9389
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7593
133 Logistics Channel 23028
134 Logistics Costs 26823
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6741
136 Manifest 10651
137 Marks and Numbers 12743
138 Material Planning 35300
139 Materials Management 26503
140 Milk Run 43302
141 Mini Land Bridge 14519
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9689
143 Modal Split 15555
144 Movement of Goods 19611
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31862
146 North West Corner Method 16945
147 Numeric Distribution 14351
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28695
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48706
150 Operational Efficiency 10027
151 Operational Objectives 13460
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18194
153 Operational Sustainability 28218
154 Operations Management 21021
155 Order Cancellation 10933
156 Order Cycle 18547
157 Order Cycle Time 23632
158 Order Fill Rate 34172
159 Order Fulfillment 6551
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10426
161 Parts Standardization 9403
162 PDCA Cycle 8116
163 Peak Load Pricing 13446
164 Perfect Order 13375
165 Physical Distribution 25106
166 Pick List 9931
167 Pipeline inventory 42529
168 Postponement 15391
169 Process Bottleneck 6389
170 Process Checklist Template 7000
171 Process Yield 20335
172 Product ID 16024
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10443
174 Production Capacity 27932
175 Production Orientation 25821
176 Production Planning 36963
177 Production Related Materials 7826
178 Production Scheduling 36344
179 Purchasing 23104
180 Quality Audit 7265
 
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