Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

• Idle time, 193–194

• Immediate predecessors, 190

• Impatient customer populations, 163

• Improve step (Six Sigma), 66

• Incentives, 255

• Independent demand, 451, 452f

• Independent demand items, 332

• Independent variables, 294

• Indirect costs, 255

• Industrial robots, 60

• Infinite customer populations, 163

• Information exchange, 574–575

• Information inputs, 389, 389f

• Input measures of capacity, 140, 144–145

• Insurance on inventory, 330

• Integer programming, 422

• Integrated Resource Planning (IRP), 147

• Integrated supply chains. See supply chain integration

• Interarrival times, 165

• Intermediate items, 458

• Intermodal shipments, 605

• Internal benchmarking, 78

• Internal customers, 5

• Internal failure costs, 100

• Internal suppliers, 5

• Internet of Things (IoT), 21–22

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