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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) 38221
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49605
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7586
84 Efficient Frontier 25417
85 Engineer-to-Order 31690
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16377
87 Erlang B Formula 9321
88 ETD 8304
89 Ex Works 7813
90 Exception Rate 13445
91 Exponential smoothing 9806
92 External Growth 10037
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9397
94 Field Services 7723
95 Field Warehouse 10350
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8728
97 Fishbone Diagram 14571
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26965
99 Flow Through Distribution 12279
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8141
101 FOB Destination 12988
102 Forward buying 30034
103 Freight Charge 10294
104 Freight Consolidation 7501
105 Gantt Chart 8267
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11695
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29532
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12649
109 Hub 23376
110 Idle Time 8041
111 Import/Export License 8684
112 In Bond Shipment 13905
113 Inbound Logistics 13545
114 Interstate System 10976
115 Inventory Costs 53507
116 Inventory in Transit 16404
117 Inventory Management 54624
118 Inventory Planning System 9753
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22250
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42555
121 JIT 2 18407
122 Job Production 27535
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9026
124 Kanban Squares 6809
125 Laid-Down Cost 10133
126 Lean Office 6009
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10839
128 Lee's Notation 8544
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14183
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37129
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9229
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7413
133 Logistics Channel 22863
134 Logistics Costs 26616
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6666
136 Manifest 10504
137 Marks and Numbers 12572
138 Material Planning 35042
139 Materials Management 26326
140 Milk Run 43050
141 Mini Land Bridge 14388
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9513
143 Modal Split 15379
144 Movement of Goods 19429
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31559
146 North West Corner Method 16834
147 Numeric Distribution 14180
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28500
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48366
150 Operational Efficiency 9915
151 Operational Objectives 13318
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18103
153 Operational Sustainability 27886
154 Operations Management 20608
155 Order Cancellation 10786
156 Order Cycle 18416
157 Order Cycle Time 23479
158 Order Fill Rate 33980
159 Order Fulfillment 6451
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10279
161 Parts Standardization 9285
162 PDCA Cycle 7949
163 Peak Load Pricing 13341
164 Perfect Order 13191
165 Physical Distribution 24892
166 Pick List 9817
167 Pipeline inventory 42324
168 Postponement 15266
169 Process Bottleneck 6261
170 Process Checklist Template 6902
171 Process Yield 20112
172 Product ID 15871
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10349
174 Production Capacity 27647
175 Production Orientation 25604
176 Production Planning 36498
177 Production Related Materials 7663
178 Production Scheduling 35966
179 Purchasing 22725
180 Quality Audit 7134
 
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