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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) 38293
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49784
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7632
84 Efficient Frontier 25516
85 Engineer-to-Order 31782
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16553
87 Erlang B Formula 9362
88 ETD 8345
89 Ex Works 7848
90 Exception Rate 13514
91 Exponential smoothing 9843
92 External Growth 10095
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9534
94 Field Services 7756
95 Field Warehouse 10537
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8790
97 Fishbone Diagram 14627
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27070
99 Flow Through Distribution 12331
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8197
101 FOB Destination 13058
102 Forward buying 30198
103 Freight Charge 10425
104 Freight Consolidation 7544
105 Gantt Chart 8303
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11753
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29614
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12706
109 Hub 23460
110 Idle Time 8085
111 Import/Export License 8740
112 In Bond Shipment 13984
113 Inbound Logistics 13613
114 Interstate System 11026
115 Inventory Costs 53715
116 Inventory in Transit 16558
117 Inventory Management 54871
118 Inventory Planning System 9888
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22329
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42830
121 JIT 2 18461
122 Job Production 27754
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9163
124 Kanban Squares 6855
125 Laid-Down Cost 10213
126 Lean Office 6140
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10868
128 Lee's Notation 8581
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14265
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37331
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9296
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7544
133 Logistics Channel 22940
134 Logistics Costs 26710
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6702
136 Manifest 10558
137 Marks and Numbers 12630
138 Material Planning 35148
139 Materials Management 26396
140 Milk Run 43144
141 Mini Land Bridge 14440
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9586
143 Modal Split 15456
144 Movement of Goods 19508
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31696
146 North West Corner Method 16883
147 Numeric Distribution 14250
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28584
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48494
150 Operational Efficiency 9963
151 Operational Objectives 13377
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18136
153 Operational Sustainability 28067
154 Operations Management 20848
155 Order Cancellation 10852
156 Order Cycle 18465
157 Order Cycle Time 23544
158 Order Fill Rate 34059
159 Order Fulfillment 6488
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10340
161 Parts Standardization 9339
162 PDCA Cycle 8068
163 Peak Load Pricing 13385
164 Perfect Order 13265
165 Physical Distribution 24975
166 Pick List 9863
167 Pipeline inventory 42403
168 Postponement 15310
169 Process Bottleneck 6318
170 Process Checklist Template 6945
171 Process Yield 20253
172 Product ID 15937
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10382
174 Production Capacity 27757
175 Production Orientation 25695
176 Production Planning 36688
177 Production Related Materials 7721
178 Production Scheduling 36120
179 Purchasing 22926
180 Quality Audit 7192
 
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