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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) 37946
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48842
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7401
84 Efficient Frontier 24960
85 Engineer-to-Order 31251
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15938
87 Erlang B Formula 9088
88 ETD 8078
89 Ex Works 7668
90 Exception Rate 13138
91 Exponential smoothing 9605
92 External Growth 9818
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9204
94 Field Services 7580
95 Field Warehouse 9680
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8422
97 Fishbone Diagram 14298
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26511
99 Flow Through Distribution 12039
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7920
101 FOB Destination 12676
102 Forward buying 29708
103 Freight Charge 10092
104 Freight Consolidation 7316
105 Gantt Chart 8109
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11412
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29172
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12422
109 Hub 23046
110 Idle Time 7862
111 Import/Export License 8476
112 In Bond Shipment 13609
113 Inbound Logistics 13207
114 Interstate System 10772
115 Inventory Costs 52738
116 Inventory in Transit 16091
117 Inventory Management 53831
118 Inventory Planning System 9578
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21913
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41360
121 JIT 2 18204
122 Job Production 26613
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8759
124 Kanban Squares 6614
125 Laid-Down Cost 9884
126 Lean Office 5799
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10733
128 Lee's Notation 8350
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13816
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36275
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8950
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7258
133 Logistics Channel 22559
134 Logistics Costs 26277
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6533
136 Manifest 10232
137 Marks and Numbers 12257
138 Material Planning 34565
139 Materials Management 26020
140 Milk Run 42426
141 Mini Land Bridge 14126
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9181
143 Modal Split 14975
144 Movement of Goods 19121
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31061
146 North West Corner Method 16642
147 Numeric Distribution 13843
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28137
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47846
150 Operational Efficiency 9674
151 Operational Objectives 13105
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17927
153 Operational Sustainability 27481
154 Operations Management 19866
155 Order Cancellation 10411
156 Order Cycle 18163
157 Order Cycle Time 23186
158 Order Fill Rate 33624
159 Order Fulfillment 6282
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10040
161 Parts Standardization 9073
162 PDCA Cycle 7812
163 Peak Load Pricing 13122
164 Perfect Order 12815
165 Physical Distribution 24551
166 Pick List 9602
167 Pipeline inventory 41938
168 Postponement 15018
169 Process Bottleneck 6044
170 Process Checklist Template 6710
171 Process Yield 19862
172 Product ID 15625
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10188
174 Production Capacity 27081
175 Production Orientation 25261
176 Production Planning 35618
177 Production Related Materials 7311
178 Production Scheduling 35075
179 Purchasing 22210
180 Quality Audit 6903
 
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