Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

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• ABC analysis, 491–492

• Acceptable quality level (AQL), 263

• Acceptance sampling, 262–265, T2–1 to T2–7

  • average outgoing quality (AOQ), 264–265, T2–5 to T2–6

  • erroneous conclusions and, 263n

  • operating characteristic (OC) curve and, 263–264

  • sampling plans, T2–2

• Accurate inventory records, MRP and, 570

• Accurate pull data, 452

• Activity charts, job design and, 418

• Activity map, 43

• Activity times, variability in, 77–82

• Activity-on-arrow (AOA), 68, 71

• Activity-on-node (AON), 68, 69–70, 90

• Adaptive smoothing, forecasting and, 139

• Additive manufacturing, 295

• Advanced shipping notice (ASN), 454

• Aggregate planning, 529–562

  • capacity options, 535–536

  • chase strategy and, 537

  • comparison of planning methods for, 537

  • demand options and, 536–537

  • disaggregation ...