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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) 37976
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48930
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7425
84 Efficient Frontier 25010
85 Engineer-to-Order 31290
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15983
87 Erlang B Formula 9119
88 ETD 8103
89 Ex Works 7680
90 Exception Rate 13173
91 Exponential smoothing 9627
92 External Growth 9839
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9224
94 Field Services 7592
95 Field Warehouse 9705
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8459
97 Fishbone Diagram 14328
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26562
99 Flow Through Distribution 12068
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7945
101 FOB Destination 12704
102 Forward buying 29747
103 Freight Charge 10115
104 Freight Consolidation 7342
105 Gantt Chart 8123
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11456
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29214
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12443
109 Hub 23076
110 Idle Time 7878
111 Import/Export License 8501
112 In Bond Shipment 13637
113 Inbound Logistics 13242
114 Interstate System 10788
115 Inventory Costs 52823
116 Inventory in Transit 16122
117 Inventory Management 53919
118 Inventory Planning System 9600
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21959
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41497
121 JIT 2 18229
122 Job Production 26733
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8789
124 Kanban Squares 6640
125 Laid-Down Cost 9908
126 Lean Office 5820
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10753
128 Lee's Notation 8375
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13861
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36359
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8976
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7287
133 Logistics Channel 22588
134 Logistics Costs 26313
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6551
136 Manifest 10262
137 Marks and Numbers 12277
138 Material Planning 34618
139 Materials Management 26050
140 Milk Run 42504
141 Mini Land Bridge 14157
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9226
143 Modal Split 15017
144 Movement of Goods 19152
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31113
146 North West Corner Method 16662
147 Numeric Distribution 13878
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28173
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47897
150 Operational Efficiency 9713
151 Operational Objectives 13131
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17948
153 Operational Sustainability 27530
154 Operations Management 19958
155 Order Cancellation 10448
156 Order Cycle 18188
157 Order Cycle Time 23220
158 Order Fill Rate 33666
159 Order Fulfillment 6301
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10054
161 Parts Standardization 9094
162 PDCA Cycle 7828
163 Peak Load Pricing 13158
164 Perfect Order 12853
165 Physical Distribution 24592
166 Pick List 9626
167 Pipeline inventory 41982
168 Postponement 15049
169 Process Bottleneck 6069
170 Process Checklist Template 6723
171 Process Yield 19888
172 Product ID 15652
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10207
174 Production Capacity 27163
175 Production Orientation 25290
176 Production Planning 35712
177 Production Related Materials 7337
178 Production Scheduling 35163
179 Purchasing 22269
180 Quality Audit 6935
 
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