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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) 38390
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50049
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7700
84 Efficient Frontier 25657
85 Engineer-to-Order 31912
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16710
87 Erlang B Formula 9437
88 ETD 8411
89 Ex Works 7904
90 Exception Rate 13624
91 Exponential smoothing 9912
92 External Growth 10188
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9613
94 Field Services 7802
95 Field Warehouse 10839
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8914
97 Fishbone Diagram 14717
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27251
99 Flow Through Distribution 12427
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8283
101 FOB Destination 13164
102 Forward buying 30361
103 Freight Charge 10496
104 Freight Consolidation 7604
105 Gantt Chart 8355
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11852
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29722
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12793
109 Hub 23577
110 Idle Time 8152
111 Import/Export License 8817
112 In Bond Shipment 14086
113 Inbound Logistics 13705
114 Interstate System 11100
115 Inventory Costs 53987
116 Inventory in Transit 16674
117 Inventory Management 55127
118 Inventory Planning System 9957
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22442
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43231
121 JIT 2 18537
122 Job Production 28088
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9238
124 Kanban Squares 6935
125 Laid-Down Cost 10331
126 Lean Office 6214
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10906
128 Lee's Notation 8638
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14404
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37546
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9393
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7594
133 Logistics Channel 23036
134 Logistics Costs 26833
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6746
136 Manifest 10658
137 Marks and Numbers 12756
138 Material Planning 35304
139 Materials Management 26510
140 Milk Run 43312
141 Mini Land Bridge 14524
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9695
143 Modal Split 15561
144 Movement of Goods 19618
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31872
146 North West Corner Method 16948
147 Numeric Distribution 14356
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28702
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48722
150 Operational Efficiency 10032
151 Operational Objectives 13464
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18196
153 Operational Sustainability 28232
154 Operations Management 21031
155 Order Cancellation 10937
156 Order Cycle 18549
157 Order Cycle Time 23637
158 Order Fill Rate 34177
159 Order Fulfillment 6554
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10436
161 Parts Standardization 9404
162 PDCA Cycle 8118
163 Peak Load Pricing 13450
164 Perfect Order 13383
165 Physical Distribution 25113
166 Pick List 9937
167 Pipeline inventory 42534
168 Postponement 15397
169 Process Bottleneck 6393
170 Process Checklist Template 7000
171 Process Yield 20343
172 Product ID 16030
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10445
174 Production Capacity 27945
175 Production Orientation 25834
176 Production Planning 36977
177 Production Related Materials 7836
178 Production Scheduling 36358
179 Purchasing 23117
180 Quality Audit 7269
 
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