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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) 38316
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49871
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7656
84 Efficient Frontier 25571
85 Engineer-to-Order 31832
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16610
87 Erlang B Formula 9388
88 ETD 8364
89 Ex Works 7865
90 Exception Rate 13546
91 Exponential smoothing 9859
92 External Growth 10127
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9560
94 Field Services 7769
95 Field Warehouse 10627
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8837
97 Fishbone Diagram 14658
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27137
99 Flow Through Distribution 12360
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8221
101 FOB Destination 13102
102 Forward buying 30262
103 Freight Charge 10446
104 Freight Consolidation 7570
105 Gantt Chart 8325
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11784
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29650
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12737
109 Hub 23501
110 Idle Time 8106
111 Import/Export License 8765
112 In Bond Shipment 14022
113 Inbound Logistics 13638
114 Interstate System 11049
115 Inventory Costs 53805
116 Inventory in Transit 16588
117 Inventory Management 54957
118 Inventory Planning System 9906
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22359
120 JIT (Just In Time) 43019
121 JIT 2 18490
122 Job Production 27862
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9179
124 Kanban Squares 6874
125 Laid-Down Cost 10257
126 Lean Office 6159
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10884
128 Lee's Notation 8604
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14314
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37407
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9331
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7559
133 Logistics Channel 22968
134 Logistics Costs 26742
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6716
136 Manifest 10586
137 Marks and Numbers 12673
138 Material Planning 35210
139 Materials Management 26432
140 Milk Run 43197
141 Mini Land Bridge 14461
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9619
143 Modal Split 15491
144 Movement of Goods 19544
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31766
146 North West Corner Method 16904
147 Numeric Distribution 14285
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28617
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48568
150 Operational Efficiency 9982
151 Operational Objectives 13405
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18159
153 Operational Sustainability 28136
154 Operations Management 20922
155 Order Cancellation 10885
156 Order Cycle 18495
157 Order Cycle Time 23572
158 Order Fill Rate 34103
159 Order Fulfillment 6508
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10369
161 Parts Standardization 9359
162 PDCA Cycle 8085
163 Peak Load Pricing 13404
164 Perfect Order 13304
165 Physical Distribution 25027
166 Pick List 9888
167 Pipeline inventory 42447
168 Postponement 15338
169 Process Bottleneck 6336
170 Process Checklist Template 6963
171 Process Yield 20280
172 Product ID 15968
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10408
174 Production Capacity 27815
175 Production Orientation 25740
176 Production Planning 36785
177 Production Related Materials 7746
178 Production Scheduling 36210
179 Purchasing 22986
180 Quality Audit 7217
 
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