Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

• Vacation schedules, 392

• Valle del Lili Foundation (VLF), 469–470

• Value analysis, 571

• Value chain. See supply chain

• Value stream mapping (VSM), 227–231

  • current state map, 227–230

  • future state map, 230–231, 230f

  • mapping icons, 227f

  • steps in, 227f

• Variable costs, 32, 535

• Variables, 106

  • control charts for, 110–114

  • slack and surplus, 429–430

• Variation of outputs, 106–108

• Variety, 13t, 16t, 304

• Velocity in big data, 304

• Vendor-managed inventories (VMI), 216, 575

• Verification, 100

• Vertical integration, 514

• Visio, 67

• Visual solution (linear programming), finding, 428–429, 428f

• Visual system, 348

• Volume flexibility, 13t, 16t

• Volume in big data, 304