Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

• Labor classifications in lean systems, 232–233

• Labor climate, 529

• Labor productivity, 18

• Labor utilization, large inventories and, 331

• Laplace decision rule, 38

• Large inventories, pressures of, 330–331

• Latest finish time (LF), 252

• Latest start time (LS), 252

• Layout, 52, 53, 57–58

• Lead time, 10, 192, 460–461

• Lean systems, 211–242, 213, 341–342

  • benefits and issues in, 232–233

  • continuous improvement and, 213–215, 215f

  • equations, 234

  • Kanban, 224–227

  • line-flow layouts, 222–224

  • process considerations, 216–221, 233

  • supply chain considerations, 215–216

  • Toyota Production System (TPS), 221–222

  • value stream mapping (VSM), 227–231

• Learning curve analysis, 69–70

• Learning curves, 70, 70f

• Level strategy, 392, 396–398, 398f

• Leveling resources, 265

• Life cycle ...