Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

• ABC analysis, 336–337, 337f

• Acceptable quality level (AQL), 105

• Acceptance sampling, 105, 105f

• Accounting inventories, 332–333

• Acquiring resources, 265

• Action notices, 466

• Activities, 248

  • crashing, 255–256

  • start and finish times, 252–254

  • time estimates, 250

• Activity ownership, 249

• Activity slack, 254–255

• Activity-on-node (AON) networks, 191

• Additive manufacturing (AM), 563–565

  • enablers, 565

  • supply chain implications, 564–565

• Additive seasonal method, 302

• Administrative costs, 568

• Advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems, 406

• Aggregate plans, 388t

• Aggregation, 289, 388

• Airbus SAS, 525–527

• Airline example (competitive priorities), 15, 16t

• Alcoa, 218

• Aldi, 211–212

• Algebraic solution (linear programming), finding, 429

• Allocated resources ...