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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) 38230
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49625
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7592
84 Efficient Frontier 25427
85 Engineer-to-Order 31699
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16386
87 Erlang B Formula 9326
88 ETD 8310
89 Ex Works 7820
90 Exception Rate 13454
91 Exponential smoothing 9810
92 External Growth 10047
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9400
94 Field Services 7726
95 Field Warehouse 10375
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8734
97 Fishbone Diagram 14579
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26977
99 Flow Through Distribution 12285
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8149
101 FOB Destination 12996
102 Forward buying 30040
103 Freight Charge 10299
104 Freight Consolidation 7507
105 Gantt Chart 8275
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11702
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29541
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12656
109 Hub 23383
110 Idle Time 8048
111 Import/Export License 8691
112 In Bond Shipment 13913
113 Inbound Logistics 13550
114 Interstate System 10981
115 Inventory Costs 53540
116 Inventory in Transit 16413
117 Inventory Management 54646
118 Inventory Planning System 9758
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22256
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42586
121 JIT 2 18410
122 Job Production 27560
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9033
124 Kanban Squares 6812
125 Laid-Down Cost 10140
126 Lean Office 6014
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10845
128 Lee's Notation 8546
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14192
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37142
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9236
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7415
133 Logistics Channel 22872
134 Logistics Costs 26628
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6672
136 Manifest 10509
137 Marks and Numbers 12578
138 Material Planning 35054
139 Materials Management 26336
140 Milk Run 43061
141 Mini Land Bridge 14395
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9524
143 Modal Split 15388
144 Movement of Goods 19443
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31571
146 North West Corner Method 16847
147 Numeric Distribution 14190
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28511
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48375
150 Operational Efficiency 9920
151 Operational Objectives 13326
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18107
153 Operational Sustainability 27895
154 Operations Management 20619
155 Order Cancellation 10796
156 Order Cycle 18423
157 Order Cycle Time 23482
158 Order Fill Rate 33988
159 Order Fulfillment 6459
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10284
161 Parts Standardization 9292
162 PDCA Cycle 7951
163 Peak Load Pricing 13351
164 Perfect Order 13196
165 Physical Distribution 24904
166 Pick List 9823
167 Pipeline inventory 42333
168 Postponement 15273
169 Process Bottleneck 6267
170 Process Checklist Template 6912
171 Process Yield 20116
172 Product ID 15877
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10353
174 Production Capacity 27659
175 Production Orientation 25617
176 Production Planning 36518
177 Production Related Materials 7668
178 Production Scheduling 35985
179 Purchasing 22738
180 Quality Audit 7141
 
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