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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) 38094
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49254
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7502
84 Efficient Frontier 25217
85 Engineer-to-Order 31493
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16170
87 Erlang B Formula 9216
88 ETD 8199
89 Ex Works 7743
90 Exception Rate 13302
91 Exponential smoothing 9722
92 External Growth 9930
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9308
94 Field Services 7653
95 Field Warehouse 9811
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8595
97 Fishbone Diagram 14459
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26763
99 Flow Through Distribution 12165
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8040
101 FOB Destination 12863
102 Forward buying 29879
103 Freight Charge 10205
104 Freight Consolidation 7419
105 Gantt Chart 8197
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11570
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29362
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12540
109 Hub 23222
110 Idle Time 7956
111 Import/Export License 8589
112 In Bond Shipment 13751
113 Inbound Logistics 13388
114 Interstate System 10874
115 Inventory Costs 53164
116 Inventory in Transit 16267
117 Inventory Management 54281
118 Inventory Planning System 9679
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22106
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42004
121 JIT 2 18316
122 Job Production 27121
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8912
124 Kanban Squares 6733
125 Laid-Down Cost 10008
126 Lean Office 5915
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10789
128 Lee's Notation 8457
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14015
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36737
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9086
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7349
133 Logistics Channel 22727
134 Logistics Costs 26454
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6603
136 Manifest 10391
137 Marks and Numbers 12421
138 Material Planning 34863
139 Materials Management 26195
140 Milk Run 42796
141 Mini Land Bridge 14268
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9365
143 Modal Split 15208
144 Movement of Goods 19275
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31316
146 North West Corner Method 16746
147 Numeric Distribution 14004
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28334
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48122
150 Operational Efficiency 9818
151 Operational Objectives 13222
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18020
153 Operational Sustainability 27681
154 Operations Management 20299
155 Order Cancellation 10632
156 Order Cycle 18299
157 Order Cycle Time 23359
158 Order Fill Rate 33819
159 Order Fulfillment 6375
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10152
161 Parts Standardization 9192
162 PDCA Cycle 7894
163 Peak Load Pricing 13251
164 Perfect Order 12996
165 Physical Distribution 24756
166 Pick List 9718
167 Pipeline inventory 42165
168 Postponement 15144
169 Process Bottleneck 6165
170 Process Checklist Template 6818
171 Process Yield 20006
172 Product ID 15768
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10280
174 Production Capacity 27396
175 Production Orientation 25424
176 Production Planning 36113
177 Production Related Materials 7513
178 Production Scheduling 35520
179 Purchasing 22467
180 Quality Audit 7039
 
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