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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) 38239
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49654
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7598
84 Efficient Frontier 25439
85 Engineer-to-Order 31706
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16409
87 Erlang B Formula 9329
88 ETD 8314
89 Ex Works 7823
90 Exception Rate 13464
91 Exponential smoothing 9813
92 External Growth 10053
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9424
94 Field Services 7731
95 Field Warehouse 10389
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8739
97 Fishbone Diagram 14583
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26988
99 Flow Through Distribution 12292
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8159
101 FOB Destination 13004
102 Forward buying 30062
103 Freight Charge 10322
104 Freight Consolidation 7511
105 Gantt Chart 8278
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11712
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29554
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12660
109 Hub 23395
110 Idle Time 8055
111 Import/Export License 8698
112 In Bond Shipment 13926
113 Inbound Logistics 13558
114 Interstate System 10985
115 Inventory Costs 53559
116 Inventory in Transit 16438
117 Inventory Management 54676
118 Inventory Planning System 9782
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22267
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42605
121 JIT 2 18418
122 Job Production 27585
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9053
124 Kanban Squares 6814
125 Laid-Down Cost 10150
126 Lean Office 6038
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10845
128 Lee's Notation 8551
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14200
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37170
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9243
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7438
133 Logistics Channel 22877
134 Logistics Costs 26638
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6677
136 Manifest 10514
137 Marks and Numbers 12585
138 Material Planning 35065
139 Materials Management 26345
140 Milk Run 43070
141 Mini Land Bridge 14402
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9530
143 Modal Split 15394
144 Movement of Goods 19451
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31588
146 North West Corner Method 16849
147 Numeric Distribution 14201
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28520
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48385
150 Operational Efficiency 9927
151 Operational Objectives 13333
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18111
153 Operational Sustainability 27918
154 Operations Management 20645
155 Order Cancellation 10804
156 Order Cycle 18428
157 Order Cycle Time 23491
158 Order Fill Rate 33997
159 Order Fulfillment 6463
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10294
161 Parts Standardization 9300
162 PDCA Cycle 7974
163 Peak Load Pricing 13354
164 Perfect Order 13203
165 Physical Distribution 24911
166 Pick List 9826
167 Pipeline inventory 42340
168 Postponement 15278
169 Process Bottleneck 6276
170 Process Checklist Template 6918
171 Process Yield 20138
172 Product ID 15888
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10355
174 Production Capacity 27670
175 Production Orientation 25632
176 Production Planning 36535
177 Production Related Materials 7676
178 Production Scheduling 36001
179 Purchasing 22764
180 Quality Audit 7148
 
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