Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

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• IBM, 46, 49

  • closed-loop supply chain, 461

  • reshoring, 47

  • SMT’s negotiation with, 787–788

• Idea Works, 257

• Ikea, 377

• Illumination, 417–418

• Impact on employees, JIT layout and, 643

• Implementing 10 strategic OM decisions, 44

• Importance of

  • inventory, 490–491

  • project management, 62

• Improve operations, global view of operations and, 34

• Improve products, global view of operations and, 34

• Improve supply chain, global view of operations and, 33

• Incentives:

  • for individual or group productivity, 415

  • job design and, 415

  • managing the supply chain, 452

• Increased flexibility, JIT layout and, 643

• Independent demand, inventory models and, 495

  • basic economic order quantity (EOQ) model, 496–497

  • minimizing costs, 497–501

  • production order quantity model, ...