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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) 38193
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49507
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7565
84 Efficient Frontier 25365
85 Engineer-to-Order 31637
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16322
87 Erlang B Formula 9297
88 ETD 8277
89 Ex Works 7792
90 Exception Rate 13409
91 Exponential smoothing 9779
92 External Growth 10013
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9375
94 Field Services 7707
95 Field Warehouse 10201
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8696
97 Fishbone Diagram 14547
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26909
99 Flow Through Distribution 12252
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8114
101 FOB Destination 12960
102 Forward buying 29993
103 Freight Charge 10272
104 Freight Consolidation 7484
105 Gantt Chart 8249
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11664
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29487
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12623
109 Hub 23336
110 Idle Time 8014
111 Import/Export License 8662
112 In Bond Shipment 13861
113 Inbound Logistics 13506
114 Interstate System 10950
115 Inventory Costs 53409
116 Inventory in Transit 16364
117 Inventory Management 54546
118 Inventory Planning System 9737
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22221
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42429
121 JIT 2 18386
122 Job Production 27419
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8996
124 Kanban Squares 6788
125 Laid-Down Cost 10101
126 Lean Office 5977
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10828
128 Lee's Notation 8519
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14140
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37050
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9194
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7398
133 Logistics Channel 22824
134 Logistics Costs 26568
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6645
136 Manifest 10479
137 Marks and Numbers 12546
138 Material Planning 35000
139 Materials Management 26295
140 Milk Run 42988
141 Mini Land Bridge 14359
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9478
143 Modal Split 15342
144 Movement of Goods 19385
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31479
146 North West Corner Method 16816
147 Numeric Distribution 14140
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28461
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48304
150 Operational Efficiency 9894
151 Operational Objectives 13292
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18086
153 Operational Sustainability 27837
154 Operations Management 20542
155 Order Cancellation 10751
156 Order Cycle 18380
157 Order Cycle Time 23440
158 Order Fill Rate 33939
159 Order Fulfillment 6433
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10248
161 Parts Standardization 9264
162 PDCA Cycle 7937
163 Peak Load Pricing 13317
164 Perfect Order 13136
165 Physical Distribution 24851
166 Pick List 9794
167 Pipeline inventory 42281
168 Postponement 15236
169 Process Bottleneck 6243
170 Process Checklist Template 6883
171 Process Yield 20083
172 Product ID 15841
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10335
174 Production Capacity 27579
175 Production Orientation 25562
176 Production Planning 36398
177 Production Related Materials 7627
178 Production Scheduling 35872
179 Purchasing 22653
180 Quality Audit 7106
 
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