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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) 38131
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49349
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7522
84 Efficient Frontier 25272
85 Engineer-to-Order 31548
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16227
87 Erlang B Formula 9244
88 ETD 8229
89 Ex Works 7763
90 Exception Rate 13337
91 Exponential smoothing 9740
92 External Growth 9955
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9334
94 Field Services 7673
95 Field Warehouse 9904
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8637
97 Fishbone Diagram 14497
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26816
99 Flow Through Distribution 12197
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8064
101 FOB Destination 12903
102 Forward buying 29913
103 Freight Charge 10229
104 Freight Consolidation 7440
105 Gantt Chart 8212
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11602
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29400
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12572
109 Hub 23259
110 Idle Time 7977
111 Import/Export License 8614
112 In Bond Shipment 13781
113 Inbound Logistics 13431
114 Interstate System 10902
115 Inventory Costs 53254
116 Inventory in Transit 16300
117 Inventory Management 54387
118 Inventory Planning System 9700
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22148
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42158
121 JIT 2 18338
122 Job Production 27230
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8941
124 Kanban Squares 6749
125 Laid-Down Cost 10041
126 Lean Office 5939
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10802
128 Lee's Notation 8481
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14061
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36853
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9123
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7369
133 Logistics Channel 22757
134 Logistics Costs 26494
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6618
136 Manifest 10424
137 Marks and Numbers 12464
138 Material Planning 34923
139 Materials Management 26226
140 Milk Run 42859
141 Mini Land Bridge 14305
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9399
143 Modal Split 15261
144 Movement of Goods 19319
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31372
146 North West Corner Method 16773
147 Numeric Distribution 14056
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28388
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48182
150 Operational Efficiency 9845
151 Operational Objectives 13246
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18049
153 Operational Sustainability 27735
154 Operations Management 20403
155 Order Cancellation 10678
156 Order Cycle 18333
157 Order Cycle Time 23396
158 Order Fill Rate 33865
159 Order Fulfillment 6394
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10185
161 Parts Standardization 9217
162 PDCA Cycle 7911
163 Peak Load Pricing 13274
164 Perfect Order 13048
165 Physical Distribution 24789
166 Pick List 9743
167 Pipeline inventory 42204
168 Postponement 15178
169 Process Bottleneck 6193
170 Process Checklist Template 6838
171 Process Yield 20032
172 Product ID 15793
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10301
174 Production Capacity 27450
175 Production Orientation 25468
176 Production Planning 36216
177 Production Related Materials 7559
178 Production Scheduling 35623
179 Purchasing 22538
180 Quality Audit 7059
 
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