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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) 37958
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 48870
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7408
84 Efficient Frontier 24978
85 Engineer-to-Order 31260
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 15958
87 Erlang B Formula 9100
88 ETD 8090
89 Ex Works 7674
90 Exception Rate 13151
91 Exponential smoothing 9614
92 External Growth 9828
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9212
94 Field Services 7584
95 Field Warehouse 9690
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8435
97 Fishbone Diagram 14307
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26529
99 Flow Through Distribution 12051
100 FOB (Free On Board) 7927
101 FOB Destination 12683
102 Forward buying 29723
103 Freight Charge 10101
104 Freight Consolidation 7324
105 Gantt Chart 8117
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11421
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29182
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12427
109 Hub 23055
110 Idle Time 7867
111 Import/Export License 8481
112 In Bond Shipment 13614
113 Inbound Logistics 13220
114 Interstate System 10778
115 Inventory Costs 52771
116 Inventory in Transit 16104
117 Inventory Management 53855
118 Inventory Planning System 9586
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 21928
120 JIT (Just In Time) 41402
121 JIT 2 18213
122 Job Production 26648
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8767
124 Kanban Squares 6622
125 Laid-Down Cost 9892
126 Lean Office 5808
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10737
128 Lee's Notation 8359
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 13828
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 36302
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 8958
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7273
133 Logistics Channel 22569
134 Logistics Costs 26288
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6541
136 Manifest 10241
137 Marks and Numbers 12261
138 Material Planning 34583
139 Materials Management 26031
140 Milk Run 42453
141 Mini Land Bridge 14134
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9194
143 Modal Split 14986
144 Movement of Goods 19132
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31073
146 North West Corner Method 16649
147 Numeric Distribution 13855
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28150
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 47862
150 Operational Efficiency 9684
151 Operational Objectives 13113
152 Operational Performance Measurements 17934
153 Operational Sustainability 27500
154 Operations Management 19893
155 Order Cancellation 10421
156 Order Cycle 18171
157 Order Cycle Time 23196
158 Order Fill Rate 33640
159 Order Fulfillment 6289
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10044
161 Parts Standardization 9078
162 PDCA Cycle 7819
163 Peak Load Pricing 13131
164 Perfect Order 12827
165 Physical Distribution 24563
166 Pick List 9610
167 Pipeline inventory 41955
168 Postponement 15027
169 Process Bottleneck 6054
170 Process Checklist Template 6718
171 Process Yield 19871
172 Product ID 15634
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10193
174 Production Capacity 27110
175 Production Orientation 25273
176 Production Planning 35649
177 Production Related Materials 7321
178 Production Scheduling 35108
179 Purchasing 22226
180 Quality Audit 6913
 
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