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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) 38310
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49847
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7649
84 Efficient Frontier 25560
85 Engineer-to-Order 31818
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16597
87 Erlang B Formula 9381
88 ETD 8360
89 Ex Works 7862
90 Exception Rate 13539
91 Exponential smoothing 9853
92 External Growth 10121
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9553
94 Field Services 7768
95 Field Warehouse 10612
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8827
97 Fishbone Diagram 14650
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27124
99 Flow Through Distribution 12354
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8214
101 FOB Destination 13091
102 Forward buying 30251
103 Freight Charge 10439
104 Freight Consolidation 7565
105 Gantt Chart 8322
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11776
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29643
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12731
109 Hub 23493
110 Idle Time 8102
111 Import/Export License 8760
112 In Bond Shipment 14016
113 Inbound Logistics 13632
114 Interstate System 11043
115 Inventory Costs 53786
116 Inventory in Transit 16579
117 Inventory Management 54945
118 Inventory Planning System 9900
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22350
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42988
121 JIT 2 18486
122 Job Production 27843
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9176
124 Kanban Squares 6869
125 Laid-Down Cost 10248
126 Lean Office 6155
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10879
128 Lee's Notation 8598
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14301
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37391
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9326
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7557
133 Logistics Channel 22960
134 Logistics Costs 26737
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6713
136 Manifest 10577
137 Marks and Numbers 12667
138 Material Planning 35203
139 Materials Management 26423
140 Milk Run 43186
141 Mini Land Bridge 14457
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9610
143 Modal Split 15483
144 Movement of Goods 19537
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31752
146 North West Corner Method 16898
147 Numeric Distribution 14278
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28610
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48546
150 Operational Efficiency 9978
151 Operational Objectives 13400
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18158
153 Operational Sustainability 28120
154 Operations Management 20909
155 Order Cancellation 10878
156 Order Cycle 18491
157 Order Cycle Time 23563
158 Order Fill Rate 34098
159 Order Fulfillment 6502
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10363
161 Parts Standardization 9355
162 PDCA Cycle 8084
163 Peak Load Pricing 13402
164 Perfect Order 13301
165 Physical Distribution 25016
166 Pick List 9881
167 Pipeline inventory 42440
168 Postponement 15331
169 Process Bottleneck 6331
170 Process Checklist Template 6961
171 Process Yield 20275
172 Product ID 15961
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10401
174 Production Capacity 27804
175 Production Orientation 25732
176 Production Planning 36771
177 Production Related Materials 7740
178 Production Scheduling 36193
179 Purchasing 22970
180 Quality Audit 7213
 
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