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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) 38140
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49370
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7528
84 Efficient Frontier 25283
85 Engineer-to-Order 31559
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16241
87 Erlang B Formula 9250
88 ETD 8238
89 Ex Works 7768
90 Exception Rate 13345
91 Exponential smoothing 9746
92 External Growth 9961
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9338
94 Field Services 7675
95 Field Warehouse 9926
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8642
97 Fishbone Diagram 14502
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26828
99 Flow Through Distribution 12202
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8071
101 FOB Destination 12913
102 Forward buying 29925
103 Freight Charge 10234
104 Freight Consolidation 7446
105 Gantt Chart 8215
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11612
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29409
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12576
109 Hub 23272
110 Idle Time 7980
111 Import/Export License 8622
112 In Bond Shipment 13793
113 Inbound Logistics 13439
114 Interstate System 10907
115 Inventory Costs 53278
116 Inventory in Transit 16307
117 Inventory Management 54416
118 Inventory Planning System 9706
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22156
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42190
121 JIT 2 18344
122 Job Production 27257
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8946
124 Kanban Squares 6753
125 Laid-Down Cost 10049
126 Lean Office 5944
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10803
128 Lee's Notation 8489
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14072
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36884
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9134
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7371
133 Logistics Channel 22765
134 Logistics Costs 26500
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6622
136 Manifest 10432
137 Marks and Numbers 12471
138 Material Planning 34929
139 Materials Management 26237
140 Milk Run 42874
141 Mini Land Bridge 14314
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9408
143 Modal Split 15274
144 Movement of Goods 19330
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31384
146 North West Corner Method 16776
147 Numeric Distribution 14065
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28399
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48202
150 Operational Efficiency 9850
151 Operational Objectives 13250
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18053
153 Operational Sustainability 27746
154 Operations Management 20423
155 Order Cancellation 10692
156 Order Cycle 18341
157 Order Cycle Time 23404
158 Order Fill Rate 33877
159 Order Fulfillment 6398
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10193
161 Parts Standardization 9221
162 PDCA Cycle 7915
163 Peak Load Pricing 13283
164 Perfect Order 13057
165 Physical Distribution 24800
166 Pick List 9751
167 Pipeline inventory 42214
168 Postponement 15190
169 Process Bottleneck 6199
170 Process Checklist Template 6843
171 Process Yield 20040
172 Product ID 15798
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10306
174 Production Capacity 27462
175 Production Orientation 25488
176 Production Planning 36227
177 Production Related Materials 7570
178 Production Scheduling 35639
179 Purchasing 22556
180 Quality Audit 7066
 
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