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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) 38398
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50061
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7710
84 Efficient Frontier 25666
85 Engineer-to-Order 31922
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16722
87 Erlang B Formula 9444
88 ETD 8415
89 Ex Works 7910
90 Exception Rate 13635
91 Exponential smoothing 9915
92 External Growth 10193
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9618
94 Field Services 7805
95 Field Warehouse 10862
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8922
97 Fishbone Diagram 14726
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27265
99 Flow Through Distribution 12432
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8288
101 FOB Destination 13169
102 Forward buying 30364
103 Freight Charge 10499
104 Freight Consolidation 7605
105 Gantt Chart 8357
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11863
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29722
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12800
109 Hub 23582
110 Idle Time 8155
111 Import/Export License 8821
112 In Bond Shipment 14090
113 Inbound Logistics 13709
114 Interstate System 11104
115 Inventory Costs 53997
116 Inventory in Transit 16679
117 Inventory Management 55150
118 Inventory Planning System 9960
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22452
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43253
121 JIT 2 18542
122 Job Production 28108
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9241
124 Kanban Squares 6943
125 Laid-Down Cost 10337
126 Lean Office 6220
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10907
128 Lee's Notation 8640
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14410
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37561
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9400
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7598
133 Logistics Channel 23041
134 Logistics Costs 26839
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6750
136 Manifest 10663
137 Marks and Numbers 12767
138 Material Planning 35311
139 Materials Management 26515
140 Milk Run 43322
141 Mini Land Bridge 14532
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9700
143 Modal Split 15565
144 Movement of Goods 19629
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31880
146 North West Corner Method 16951
147 Numeric Distribution 14361
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28713
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48743
150 Operational Efficiency 10038
151 Operational Objectives 13467
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18196
153 Operational Sustainability 28241
154 Operations Management 21042
155 Order Cancellation 10946
156 Order Cycle 18552
157 Order Cycle Time 23644
158 Order Fill Rate 34184
159 Order Fulfillment 6559
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10445
161 Parts Standardization 9407
162 PDCA Cycle 8123
163 Peak Load Pricing 13454
164 Perfect Order 13389
165 Physical Distribution 25120
166 Pick List 9944
167 Pipeline inventory 42540
168 Postponement 15400
169 Process Bottleneck 6396
170 Process Checklist Template 7003
171 Process Yield 20346
172 Product ID 16036
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10449
174 Production Capacity 27953
175 Production Orientation 25843
176 Production Planning 36993
177 Production Related Materials 7848
178 Production Scheduling 36372
179 Purchasing 23128
180 Quality Audit 7275
 
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