Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

• Earliest due date (EDD), 404

• Earliest finish time (EF), 252

• Earliest start time (ES), 252

• Early supplier involvement, 571

• Economic dependency, 571

• Economic order quantity (EOQ), 337–342

  • calculating, 338–341

  • equations, 354

  • management insights, 341–342

  • quantity discounts and, 374–376

• Economic production lot size (ELS), 372

• Economies of scale, 140–141, 141f

• Economies of scope, 60–61

• Efficiency, 193–194

• Efficiency curve, 500–501, 501f

• Efficient supply chains, 507, 507t, 509–510, 509t

• 80-20 rule, 73

• Electronic commerce (e-commerce), 579

• Electronic data interchange (EDI), 573

• Elemental standard data, 68

• Emerging markets, 500

• Employee empowerment, 102

• Employee involvement (in TQM), 102–103

• End items, 457

• Energy efficiency, 601–606

  • equations, 612 ...