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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) 38236
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49637
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7597
84 Efficient Frontier 25432
85 Engineer-to-Order 31702
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16393
87 Erlang B Formula 9328
88 ETD 8312
89 Ex Works 7820
90 Exception Rate 13457
91 Exponential smoothing 9812
92 External Growth 10049
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9406
94 Field Services 7729
95 Field Warehouse 10378
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8736
97 Fishbone Diagram 14581
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26981
99 Flow Through Distribution 12287
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8154
101 FOB Destination 12998
102 Forward buying 30044
103 Freight Charge 10305
104 Freight Consolidation 7510
105 Gantt Chart 8275
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11706
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29547
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12657
109 Hub 23386
110 Idle Time 8051
111 Import/Export License 8694
112 In Bond Shipment 13919
113 Inbound Logistics 13553
114 Interstate System 10982
115 Inventory Costs 53550
116 Inventory in Transit 16420
117 Inventory Management 54654
118 Inventory Planning System 9765
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22261
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42591
121 JIT 2 18415
122 Job Production 27571
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9037
124 Kanban Squares 6813
125 Laid-Down Cost 10145
126 Lean Office 6020
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10845
128 Lee's Notation 8549
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14194
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37149
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9237
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7421
133 Logistics Channel 22873
134 Logistics Costs 26633
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6676
136 Manifest 10511
137 Marks and Numbers 12580
138 Material Planning 35058
139 Materials Management 26340
140 Milk Run 43065
141 Mini Land Bridge 14399
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9525
143 Modal Split 15388
144 Movement of Goods 19447
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31577
146 North West Corner Method 16848
147 Numeric Distribution 14194
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28515
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48376
150 Operational Efficiency 9924
151 Operational Objectives 13329
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18110
153 Operational Sustainability 27900
154 Operations Management 20628
155 Order Cancellation 10798
156 Order Cycle 18424
157 Order Cycle Time 23486
158 Order Fill Rate 33991
159 Order Fulfillment 6461
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10287
161 Parts Standardization 9296
162 PDCA Cycle 7957
163 Peak Load Pricing 13352
164 Perfect Order 13198
165 Physical Distribution 24907
166 Pick List 9823
167 Pipeline inventory 42336
168 Postponement 15274
169 Process Bottleneck 6270
170 Process Checklist Template 6914
171 Process Yield 20120
172 Product ID 15883
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10353
174 Production Capacity 27664
175 Production Orientation 25623
176 Production Planning 36523
177 Production Related Materials 7671
178 Production Scheduling 35994
179 Purchasing 22745
180 Quality Audit 7144
 
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