1. Business Concepts
    2. ›
  2. Operations and Supply Chain

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.

Title Filter 
# Name Hits
91 Exponential smoothing 9821
92 External Growth 10061
93 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA 9461
94 Field Services 7738
95 Field Warehouse 10411
96 FIFO (First in First Out) 8743
97 Fishbone Diagram 14595
98 Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ) 27004
99 Flow Through Distribution 12299
100 FOB (Free On Board) 8166
101 FOB Destination 13010
102 Forward buying 30101
103 Freight Charge 10359
104 Freight Consolidation 7517
105 Gantt Chart 8279
106 General Merchandise Warehouse 11720
107 Harris- Wilson EOQ/ EBQ Model 29567
108 House Airway Bill (HAWB) 12669
109 Hub 23405
110 Idle Time 8059
111 Import/Export License 8707
112 In Bond Shipment 13933
113 Inbound Logistics 13569
114 Interstate System 10990
115 Inventory Costs 53577
116 Inventory in Transit 16476
117 Inventory Management 54723
118 Inventory Planning System 9817
119 Inventory Shortage Penalty Cost 22281
120 JIT (Just In Time) 42643
121 JIT 2 18427
122 Job Production 27619
123 JSA (Job Safety Analysis) 9090
124 Kanban Squares 6821
125 Laid-Down Cost 10166
126 Lean Office 6076
127 Least Cost Cell First Method 10846
128 Lee's Notation 8559
129 LIFO (Last In First Out) 14208
130 LIFR (Line Item Fill Rate) 37213
131 Lift On, Lift Off (LO/LO) 9252
132 Linear and Logistics Model 7477
133 Logistics Channel 22882
134 Logistics Costs 26650
135 Maintenance Repair & Operating (MRO) 6681
136 Manifest 10522
137 Marks and Numbers 12592
138 Material Planning 35079
139 Materials Management 26356
140 Milk Run 43082
141 Mini Land Bridge 14408
142 Minimum Efficient Scale MES 9541
143 Modal Split 15402
144 Movement of Goods 19464
145 Non-Negotiable Bill of Lading 31608
146 North West Corner Method 16854
147 Numeric Distribution 14212
148 One Level Distribution Channel 28536
149 One Point Lesson (OPL) 48420
150 Operational Efficiency 9935
151 Operational Objectives 13342
152 Operational Performance Measurements 18116
153 Operational Sustainability 27956
154 Operations Management 20693
155 Order Cancellation 10811
156 Order Cycle 18439
157 Order Cycle Time 23503
158 Order Fill Rate 34012
159 Order Fulfillment 6469
160 Over Short & Damaged (OS&D) 10306
161 Parts Standardization 9305
162 PDCA Cycle 8010
163 Peak Load Pricing 13358
164 Perfect Order 13215
165 Physical Distribution 24921
166 Pick List 9834
167 Pipeline inventory 42351
168 Postponement 15281
169 Process Bottleneck 6288
170 Process Checklist Template 6922
171 Process Yield 20177
172 Product ID 15895
173 Product Mix Decision Making (PMDM) 10361
174 Production Capacity 27687
175 Production Orientation 25649
176 Production Planning 36568
177 Production Related Materials 7686
178 Production Scheduling 36023
179 Purchasing 22806
180 Quality Audit 7155
181 Quality Control 36282
182 Quality Standards 56552
183 Quality Tradeoff Curve 14190
184 Queuing Theory or Waiting Line Theory 11940
185 Quick Response 11249
186 Raw Material 25297
187 Return Goods Handling 10413
188 Revenue Passenger Miles (RPM) 11319
189 Root Cause Analysis 9204
190 Routing 7003
 
Page 1 of 3