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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) 37892
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48677
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7369
84 Efficient Frontier 24868
85 Engineer-to-Order 31172
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15835
87 Erlang B Formula 9040
88 ETD 8049
89 Ex Works 7648
90 Exception Rate 13080
91 Exponential smoothing 9571
92 External Growth 9777
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9166
94 Field Services 7562
95 Field Warehouse 9635
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8360
97 Fishbone Diagram 14253
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26438
99 Flow Through Distribution 11988
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7879
101 FOB Destination 12622
102 Forward buying 29645
103 Freight Charge 10057
104 Freight Consolidation 7274
105 Gantt Chart 8082
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11349
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29066
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12388
109 Hub 22975
110 Idle Time 7823
111 Import/Export License 8430
112 In Bond Shipment 13549
113 Inbound Logistics 13156
114 Interstate System 10751
115 Inventory Costs 52555
116 Inventory in Transit 16028
117 Inventory Management 53686
118 Inventory Planning System 9539
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21825
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41096
121 JIT 2 18175
122 Job Production 26431
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8711
124 Kanban Squares 6576
125 Laid-Down Cost 9852
126 Lean Office 5766
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10713
128 Lee's Notation 8311
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13744
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36122
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8919
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7214
133 Logistics Channel 22499
134 Logistics Costs 26213
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6512
136 Manifest 10183
137 Marks and Numbers 12213
138 Material Planning 34470
139 Materials Management 25971
140 Milk Run 42294
141 Mini Land Bridge 14079
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9126
143 Modal Split 14896
144 Movement of Goods 19061
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 30984
146 North West Corner Method 16608
147 Numeric Distribution 13774
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28070
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47756
150 Operational Efficiency 9630
151 Operational Objectives 13064
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17901
153 Operational Sustainability 27398
154 Operations Management 19726
155 Order Cancellation 10350
156 Order Cycle 18117
157 Order Cycle Time 23112
158 Order Fill Rate 33550
159 Order Fulfillment 6248
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10001
161 Parts Standardization 9037
162 PDCA Cycle 7791
163 Peak Load Pricing 13070
164 Perfect Order 12749
165 Physical Distribution 24479
166 Pick List 9561
167 Pipeline inventory 41851
168 Postponement 14975
169 Process Bottleneck 5996
170 Process Checklist Template 6680
171 Process Yield 19815
172 Product ID 15579
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10169
174 Production Capacity 26936
175 Production Orientation 25214
176 Production Planning 35407
177 Production Related Materials 7260
178 Production Scheduling 34906
179 Purchasing 22102
180 Quality Audit 6848
 
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