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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) 38092
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49250
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7500
84 Efficient Frontier 25217
85 Engineer-to-Order 31490
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16168
87 Erlang B Formula 9215
88 ETD 8198
89 Ex Works 7742
90 Exception Rate 13302
91 Exponential smoothing 9722
92 External Growth 9928
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9308
94 Field Services 7653
95 Field Warehouse 9809
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8594
97 Fishbone Diagram 14458
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26760
99 Flow Through Distribution 12164
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8040
101 FOB Destination 12862
102 Forward buying 29878
103 Freight Charge 10205
104 Freight Consolidation 7418
105 Gantt Chart 8196
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11569
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29361
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12540
109 Hub 23221
110 Idle Time 7954
111 Import/Export License 8589
112 In Bond Shipment 13749
113 Inbound Logistics 13388
114 Interstate System 10871
115 Inventory Costs 53160
116 Inventory in Transit 16265
117 Inventory Management 54276
118 Inventory Planning System 9677
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22103
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41999
121 JIT 2 18315
122 Job Production 27113
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8911
124 Kanban Squares 6732
125 Laid-Down Cost 10006
126 Lean Office 5915
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10789
128 Lee's Notation 8457
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14015
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36731
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9086
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7349
133 Logistics Channel 22726
134 Logistics Costs 26452
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6602
136 Manifest 10390
137 Marks and Numbers 12420
138 Material Planning 34858
139 Materials Management 26194
140 Milk Run 42794
141 Mini Land Bridge 14267
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9363
143 Modal Split 15204
144 Movement of Goods 19274
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31315
146 North West Corner Method 16744
147 Numeric Distribution 14002
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28331
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48119
150 Operational Efficiency 9817
151 Operational Objectives 13222
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18020
153 Operational Sustainability 27678
154 Operations Management 20296
155 Order Cancellation 10630
156 Order Cycle 18297
157 Order Cycle Time 23357
158 Order Fill Rate 33817
159 Order Fulfillment 6374
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10152
161 Parts Standardization 9191
162 PDCA Cycle 7894
163 Peak Load Pricing 13250
164 Perfect Order 12995
165 Physical Distribution 24753
166 Pick List 9718
167 Pipeline inventory 42165
168 Postponement 15143
169 Process Bottleneck 6163
170 Process Checklist Template 6818
171 Process Yield 20006
172 Product ID 15767
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10279
174 Production Capacity 27393
175 Production Orientation 25422
176 Production Planning 36112
177 Production Related Materials 7510
178 Production Scheduling 35516
179 Purchasing 22466
180 Quality Audit 7038
 
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