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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) 38257
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49707
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7611
84 Efficient Frontier 25472
85 Engineer-to-Order 31730
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16492
87 Erlang B Formula 9343
88 ETD 8326
89 Ex Works 7831
90 Exception Rate 13486
91 Exponential smoothing 9827
92 External Growth 10072
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9497
94 Field Services 7742
95 Field Warehouse 10436
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8753
97 Fishbone Diagram 14603
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27018
99 Flow Through Distribution 12305
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8171
101 FOB Destination 13026
102 Forward buying 30140
103 Freight Charge 10394
104 Freight Consolidation 7525
105 Gantt Chart 8288
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11729
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29578
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12678
109 Hub 23423
110 Idle Time 8065
111 Import/Export License 8714
112 In Bond Shipment 13943
113 Inbound Logistics 13577
114 Interstate System 10999
115 Inventory Costs 53611
116 Inventory in Transit 16515
117 Inventory Management 54773
118 Inventory Planning System 9854
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22288
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42690
121 JIT 2 18437
122 Job Production 27645
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9127
124 Kanban Squares 6828
125 Laid-Down Cost 10178
126 Lean Office 6112
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10856
128 Lee's Notation 8567
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14221
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37255
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9266
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7511
133 Logistics Channel 22901
134 Logistics Costs 26668
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6685
136 Manifest 10529
137 Marks and Numbers 12598
138 Material Planning 35095
139 Materials Management 26368
140 Milk Run 43096
141 Mini Land Bridge 14415
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9557
143 Modal Split 15415
144 Movement of Goods 19475
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31628
146 North West Corner Method 16861
147 Numeric Distribution 14221
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28545
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48434
150 Operational Efficiency 9942
151 Operational Objectives 13351
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18123
153 Operational Sustainability 27997
154 Operations Management 20744
155 Order Cancellation 10819
156 Order Cycle 18444
157 Order Cycle Time 23512
158 Order Fill Rate 34025
159 Order Fulfillment 6471
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10311
161 Parts Standardization 9313
162 PDCA Cycle 8046
163 Peak Load Pricing 13368
164 Perfect Order 13225
165 Physical Distribution 24941
166 Pick List 9841
167 Pipeline inventory 42360
168 Postponement 15291
169 Process Bottleneck 6296
170 Process Checklist Template 6929
171 Process Yield 20220
172 Product ID 15909
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10369
174 Production Capacity 27702
175 Production Orientation 25664
176 Production Planning 36594
177 Production Related Materials 7696
178 Production Scheduling 36046
179 Purchasing 22850
180 Quality Audit 7164
 
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