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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) 38404
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 50079
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7715
84 Efficient Frontier 25676
85 Engineer-to-Order 31932
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16730
87 Erlang B Formula 9448
88 ETD 8421
89 Ex Works 7914
90 Exception Rate 13641
91 Exponential smoothing 9919
92 External Growth 10199
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9623
94 Field Services 7809
95 Field Warehouse 10886
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8932
97 Fishbone Diagram 14729
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27274
99 Flow Through Distribution 12440
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8295
101 FOB Destination 13175
102 Forward buying 30370
103 Freight Charge 10501
104 Freight Consolidation 7609
105 Gantt Chart 8363
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11869
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29732
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12803
109 Hub 23589
110 Idle Time 8158
111 Import/Export License 8825
112 In Bond Shipment 14093
113 Inbound Logistics 13713
114 Interstate System 11109
115 Inventory Costs 54014
116 Inventory in Transit 16685
117 Inventory Management 55164
118 Inventory Planning System 9963
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22464
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43271
121 JIT 2 18546
122 Job Production 28134
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9245
124 Kanban Squares 6947
125 Laid-Down Cost 10341
126 Lean Office 6224
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10909
128 Lee's Notation 8642
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14420
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37572
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9408
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7601
133 Logistics Channel 23045
134 Logistics Costs 26846
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6752
136 Manifest 10667
137 Marks and Numbers 12771
138 Material Planning 35321
139 Materials Management 26522
140 Milk Run 43329
141 Mini Land Bridge 14537
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9704
143 Modal Split 15571
144 Movement of Goods 19636
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31889
146 North West Corner Method 16955
147 Numeric Distribution 14363
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28719
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48753
150 Operational Efficiency 10040
151 Operational Objectives 13472
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18198
153 Operational Sustainability 28247
154 Operations Management 21050
155 Order Cancellation 10951
156 Order Cycle 18559
157 Order Cycle Time 23649
158 Order Fill Rate 34192
159 Order Fulfillment 6561
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10448
161 Parts Standardization 9412
162 PDCA Cycle 8123
163 Peak Load Pricing 13459
164 Perfect Order 13396
165 Physical Distribution 25133
166 Pick List 9951
167 Pipeline inventory 42549
168 Postponement 15409
169 Process Bottleneck 6397
170 Process Checklist Template 7009
171 Process Yield 20352
172 Product ID 16043
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10453
174 Production Capacity 27964
175 Production Orientation 25851
176 Production Planning 37011
177 Production Related Materials 7854
178 Production Scheduling 36388
179 Purchasing 23138
180 Quality Audit 7282
 
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