Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

• Facility location, 527

  • break-even analysis, 535–536

  • ethical issues, 610

  • factors affecting, 528–531

  • geographical information system (GIS), 539–541

  • load–distance method, 531–535

  • in logistics process, 576

  • transportation method, 537–539

• Facility scheduling, 399–400

• Fast-food restaurants, location decisions, 540

• Feasible region, 422, 426–427, 426f

• FedEx, 595–596

• Finance, organizational role of, 3–4, 4f

• Financial measures of supply chain, 505–506, 505f

• Financial plans, 389

• Financial responsibility, 597, 598t

• Financial risks, 581–582, 600–601

• Finished goods (FG), 332

• Finite customer populations, 162

• Finite-source model, 171–172

• First-come, first-served (FCFS), 404

• Fishbone diagrams. See cause-and-effect diagrams

• Fitness Plus, 159–160

• Five S (5S) ...