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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) 37986
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48967
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7432
84 Efficient Frontier 25029
85 Engineer-to-Order 31309
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15998
87 Erlang B Formula 9130
88 ETD 8107
89 Ex Works 7687
90 Exception Rate 13185
91 Exponential smoothing 9631
92 External Growth 9846
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9230
94 Field Services 7599
95 Field Warehouse 9714
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8476
97 Fishbone Diagram 14342
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26582
99 Flow Through Distribution 12079
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7954
101 FOB Destination 12719
102 Forward buying 29769
103 Freight Charge 10124
104 Freight Consolidation 7351
105 Gantt Chart 8132
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11472
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29226
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12453
109 Hub 23095
110 Idle Time 7885
111 Import/Export License 8507
112 In Bond Shipment 13647
113 Inbound Logistics 13253
114 Interstate System 10796
115 Inventory Costs 52858
116 Inventory in Transit 16134
117 Inventory Management 53944
118 Inventory Planning System 9607
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21978
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41540
121 JIT 2 18241
122 Job Production 26763
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8800
124 Kanban Squares 6651
125 Laid-Down Cost 9914
126 Lean Office 5832
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10758
128 Lee's Notation 8381
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13875
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36394
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8984
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7294
133 Logistics Channel 22600
134 Logistics Costs 26327
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6556
136 Manifest 10274
137 Marks and Numbers 12284
138 Material Planning 34642
139 Materials Management 26062
140 Milk Run 42537
141 Mini Land Bridge 14166
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9239
143 Modal Split 15041
144 Movement of Goods 19168
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31133
146 North West Corner Method 16667
147 Numeric Distribution 13887
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28185
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47920
150 Operational Efficiency 9724
151 Operational Objectives 13138
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17955
153 Operational Sustainability 27545
154 Operations Management 19992
155 Order Cancellation 10463
156 Order Cycle 18195
157 Order Cycle Time 23234
158 Order Fill Rate 33685
159 Order Fulfillment 6311
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10062
161 Parts Standardization 9105
162 PDCA Cycle 7832
163 Peak Load Pricing 13170
164 Perfect Order 12874
165 Physical Distribution 24609
166 Pick List 9635
167 Pipeline inventory 42004
168 Postponement 15059
169 Process Bottleneck 6077
170 Process Checklist Template 6730
171 Process Yield 19905
172 Product ID 15659
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10214
174 Production Capacity 27193
175 Production Orientation 25307
176 Production Planning 35749
177 Production Related Materials 7353
178 Production Scheduling 35197
179 Purchasing 22291
180 Quality Audit 6942
 
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