1. Business Concepts
    2. ›
  2. Operations and Supply Chain

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.

Title Filter 
# Name Hits
81 Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) 37916
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48750
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7381
84 Efficient Frontier 24907
85 Engineer-to-Order 31205
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15881
87 Erlang B Formula 9054
88 ETD 8059
89 Ex Works 7655
90 Exception Rate 13103
91 Exponential smoothing 9585
92 External Growth 9791
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9181
94 Field Services 7568
95 Field Warehouse 9653
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8387
97 Fishbone Diagram 14277
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26469
99 Flow Through Distribution 12008
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7891
101 FOB Destination 12644
102 Forward buying 29673
103 Freight Charge 10070
104 Freight Consolidation 7293
105 Gantt Chart 8091
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11369
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29127
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12402
109 Hub 22999
110 Idle Time 7839
111 Import/Export License 8452
112 In Bond Shipment 13573
113 Inbound Logistics 13173
114 Interstate System 10760
115 Inventory Costs 52642
116 Inventory in Transit 16053
117 Inventory Management 53752
118 Inventory Planning System 9552
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21861
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41220
121 JIT 2 18185
122 Job Production 26511
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8730
124 Kanban Squares 6591
125 Laid-Down Cost 9869
126 Lean Office 5776
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10717
128 Lee's Notation 8329
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13771
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36196
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8930
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7223
133 Logistics Channel 22523
134 Logistics Costs 26238
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6520
136 Manifest 10201
137 Marks and Numbers 12232
138 Material Planning 34510
139 Materials Management 25990
140 Milk Run 42347
141 Mini Land Bridge 14097
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9144
143 Modal Split 14925
144 Movement of Goods 19082
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31016
146 North West Corner Method 16622
147 Numeric Distribution 13808
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28102
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47792
150 Operational Efficiency 9649
151 Operational Objectives 13086
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17915
153 Operational Sustainability 27430
154 Operations Management 19786
155 Order Cancellation 10376
156 Order Cycle 18134
157 Order Cycle Time 23146
158 Order Fill Rate 33575
159 Order Fulfillment 6261
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10017
161 Parts Standardization 9051
162 PDCA Cycle 7802
163 Peak Load Pricing 13085
164 Perfect Order 12772
165 Physical Distribution 24507
166 Pick List 9575
167 Pipeline inventory 41888
168 Postponement 14996
169 Process Bottleneck 6017
170 Process Checklist Template 6696
171 Process Yield 19838
172 Product ID 15597
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10181
174 Production Capacity 26990
175 Production Orientation 25236
176 Production Planning 35502
177 Production Related Materials 7281
178 Production Scheduling 34975
179 Purchasing 22146
180 Quality Audit 6868
 
Page 1 of 3