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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) 38191
82 Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) 49496
83 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 7563
84 Efficient Frontier 25364
85 Engineer-to-Order 31630
86 Equipment Cost or Setup Cost 16316
87 Erlang B Formula 9296
88 ETD 8276
89 Ex Works 7791
90 Exception Rate 13406
91 Exponential smoothing 9778
92 External Growth 10011
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9374
94 Field Services 7706
95 Field Warehouse 10191
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8695
97 Fishbone Diagram 14544
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 26905
99 Flow Through Distribution 12250
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8112
101 FOB Destination 12958
102 Forward buying 29988
103 Freight Charge 10269
104 Freight Consolidation 7482
105 Gantt Chart 8248
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11659
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29481
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12622
109 Hub 23330
110 Idle Time 8012
111 Import/Export License 8660
112 In Bond Shipment 13858
113 Inbound Logistics 13499
114 Interstate System 10947
115 Inventory Costs 53402
116 Inventory in Transit 16360
117 Inventory Management 54540
118 Inventory Planning System 9734
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22218
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42408
121 JIT 2 18383
122 Job Production 27409
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 8993
124 Kanban Squares 6785
125 Laid-Down Cost 10096
126 Lean Office 5976
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10828
128 Lee's Notation 8517
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14133
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37037
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9191
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7397
133 Logistics Channel 22821
134 Logistics Costs 26563
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6645
136 Manifest 10477
137 Marks and Numbers 12541
138 Material Planning 34995
139 Materials Management 26294
140 Milk Run 42982
141 Mini Land Bridge 14356
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9473
143 Modal Split 15340
144 Movement of Goods 19382
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31472
146 North West Corner Method 16812
147 Numeric Distribution 14135
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28457
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48299
150 Operational Efficiency 9891
151 Operational Objectives 13289
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18083
153 Operational Sustainability 27824
154 Operations Management 20536
155 Order Cancellation 10748
156 Order Cycle 18379
157 Order Cycle Time 23438
158 Order Fill Rate 33937
159 Order Fulfillment 6431
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10243
161 Parts Standardization 9262
162 PDCA Cycle 7936
163 Peak Load Pricing 13315
164 Perfect Order 13133
165 Physical Distribution 24847
166 Pick List 9791
167 Pipeline inventory 42278
168 Postponement 15234
169 Process Bottleneck 6240
170 Process Checklist Template 6880
171 Process Yield 20079
172 Product ID 15838
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10334
174 Production Capacity 27571
175 Production Orientation 25557
176 Production Planning 36390
177 Production Related Materials 7621
178 Production Scheduling 35861
179 Purchasing 22646
180 Quality Audit 7104
 
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