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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) 38355
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49973
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7681
84 Efficient Frontier 25612
85 Engineer-to-Order 31873
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16665
87 Erlang B Formula 9415
88 ETD 8391
89 Ex Works 7885
90 Exception Rate 13589
91 Exponential smoothing 9888
92 External Growth 10163
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9587
94 Field Services 7790
95 Field Warehouse 10738
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8877
97 Fishbone Diagram 14688
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27199
99 Flow Through Distribution 12398
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8254
101 FOB Destination 13137
102 Forward buying 30322
103 Freight Charge 10478
104 Freight Consolidation 7591
105 Gantt Chart 8341
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11821
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29689
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12767
109 Hub 23547
110 Idle Time 8132
111 Import/Export License 8798
112 In Bond Shipment 14063
113 Inbound Logistics 13676
114 Interstate System 11082
115 Inventory Costs 53915
116 Inventory in Transit 16627
117 Inventory Management 55055
118 Inventory Planning System 9934
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22405
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43148
121 JIT 2 18514
122 Job Production 27995
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9212
124 Kanban Squares 6910
125 Laid-Down Cost 10295
126 Lean Office 6192
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10896
128 Lee's Notation 8627
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14360
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37474
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9365
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7578
133 Logistics Channel 23006
134 Logistics Costs 26796
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6732
136 Manifest 10629
137 Marks and Numbers 12715
138 Material Planning 35262
139 Materials Management 26477
140 Milk Run 43262
141 Mini Land Bridge 14496
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9661
143 Modal Split 15531
144 Movement of Goods 19588
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31826
146 North West Corner Method 16927
147 Numeric Distribution 14323
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28669
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48653
150 Operational Efficiency 10010
151 Operational Objectives 13439
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18182
153 Operational Sustainability 28189
154 Operations Management 20980
155 Order Cancellation 10917
156 Order Cycle 18526
157 Order Cycle Time 23611
158 Order Fill Rate 34144
159 Order Fulfillment 6532
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10408
161 Parts Standardization 9389
162 PDCA Cycle 8105
163 Peak Load Pricing 13430
164 Perfect Order 13348
165 Physical Distribution 25079
166 Pick List 9916
167 Pipeline inventory 42497
168 Postponement 15366
169 Process Bottleneck 6369
170 Process Checklist Template 6989
171 Process Yield 20312
172 Product ID 16005
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10430
174 Production Capacity 27895
175 Production Orientation 25785
176 Production Planning 36897
177 Production Related Materials 7788
178 Production Scheduling 36287
179 Purchasing 23068
180 Quality Audit 7247
 
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