Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

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• Earliest due date (EDD), 611, 614

• Earliest finish time (EF), critical path analysis and, 72, 73

• Earliest start time (ES), critical path analysis and, 72, 73

• Earthquake damage, 472

• Eco Index, 204

• Economic change, generating new products, 166

• Economic forecasts, 109

• Economic order quantity (EOQ) models, 496–497

  • lot sizing and, 577–578

  • minimize costs, 497

  • production order quantity model, 502–504

  • quantity discount model, 505–507

  • reorder points, 501–502

  • robust model, 500–501

• Economic sustainability, 197

• Economies of scale, 311

• Effective capacity, 309

• Efficiency

  • capacity and, 310

  • of line balance, 391

• Electronic data interchange (EDI), 454

• Electronic ordering and funds transfer, 453–454

• Eliminate waste, lean operations and, 638–639

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