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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) 38148
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49387
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7534
84 Efficient Frontier 25291
85 Engineer-to-Order 31565
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16252
87 Erlang B Formula 9257
88 ETD 8243
89 Ex Works 7773
90 Exception Rate 13354
91 Exponential smoothing 9750
92 External Growth 9967
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9342
94 Field Services 7682
95 Field Warehouse 9968
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8646
97 Fishbone Diagram 14507
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26835
99 Flow Through Distribution 12209
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8079
101 FOB Destination 12921
102 Forward buying 29936
103 Freight Charge 10239
104 Freight Consolidation 7450
105 Gantt Chart 8222
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11618
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29419
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12581
109 Hub 23279
110 Idle Time 7984
111 Import/Export License 8625
112 In Bond Shipment 13800
113 Inbound Logistics 13449
114 Interstate System 10913
115 Inventory Costs 53293
116 Inventory in Transit 16313
117 Inventory Management 54431
118 Inventory Planning System 9711
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22161
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42218
121 JIT 2 18350
122 Job Production 27272
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8956
124 Kanban Squares 6758
125 Laid-Down Cost 10054
126 Lean Office 5949
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10807
128 Lee's Notation 8492
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14078
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36901
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9145
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7375
133 Logistics Channel 22771
134 Logistics Costs 26507
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6626
136 Manifest 10437
137 Marks and Numbers 12484
138 Material Planning 34933
139 Materials Management 26241
140 Milk Run 42885
141 Mini Land Bridge 14319
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9414
143 Modal Split 15281
144 Movement of Goods 19335
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31396
146 North West Corner Method 16781
147 Numeric Distribution 14071
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28403
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48212
150 Operational Efficiency 9855
151 Operational Objectives 13258
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18060
153 Operational Sustainability 27756
154 Operations Management 20441
155 Order Cancellation 10699
156 Order Cycle 18346
157 Order Cycle Time 23406
158 Order Fill Rate 33881
159 Order Fulfillment 6401
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10199
161 Parts Standardization 9224
162 PDCA Cycle 7918
163 Peak Load Pricing 13287
164 Perfect Order 13069
165 Physical Distribution 24804
166 Pick List 9756
167 Pipeline inventory 42223
168 Postponement 15194
169 Process Bottleneck 6205
170 Process Checklist Template 6847
171 Process Yield 20047
172 Product ID 15804
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10312
174 Production Capacity 27477
175 Production Orientation 25491
176 Production Planning 36243
177 Production Related Materials 7583
178 Production Scheduling 35659
179 Purchasing 22563
180 Quality Audit 7069
 
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