Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

• Machine productivity, 18

• Major League Baseball umpire scheduling, 401

• Make-or-buy decisions, 514–515

• Make-to-order strategy, 57, 508

• Make-to-stock strategy, 57, 507, 507f

• Management

  • in disaster relief, 607–608

  • economic order quantity (EOQ) insights, 341–342

  • in productivity improvement, 18

  • supply chain sustainability, 611

  • in waiting-line improvement, 173–174

• Manufacturing

  • additive manufacturing (AM), 563–565

  • focus, gaining, 62–64

  • location decisions, 528–530

  • process structure, 55–58

  • sales and operations plan spreadsheets, 395–396, 395f

  • supply chain for, 502, 503f

• Manufacturing processes

  • automation, 59–60

  • characteristics of, 6f

  • competitive priorities and, 62f

  • constraint management, 185–188

  • decision patterns, 61–62

  • production and inventory strategies ...