Essentials of Supply Chain Management, Third Edition

Index

3i Infotech, 96

7-Eleven, 28

A

ABC. See activity-based costing activities, coordinating, 16

activity-based costing, 190

adaptive networks, 321–322

aggregate forecast, 46

aggregate planning, 46–49

agility, 216–217

airplanes, 15

Alexander the Great, 7–9

Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, 8

alliances, strengthening, 313–315

American Production and Inventory Control Society. See Association for Operations Management

antiretroviral drugs, 96

APICS. See Association for Operations Management

Apple, 35–37

The Art of War, 203–207

ARV See antiretroviral drugs

Association for Operations Management, 207–209

availability, 57

B

backlog, 48–49

Basics of Supply Chain Management, 191

behavior, emergent, 319–321

benefits, 266

defining, 263–270

BI. See business intelligence

big box store, 19

Booz & Company, 95–96

bottlenecks, 192

BPM. See business process management

brainstorming, 245–247

broadband, 111

BTO. See build-to-order

BTS. See build-to-stock

budget

creating, 259–262

estimating, 263

buffer, 13

build-to-order, 154, 156, 160

build-to-stock, 154–155, 160

bullwhip effect, 184–187, 229

business analysis, 278

business cycle, 184

business goal, 276

business intelligence, 130–131, 168

business models, 144

business operations

company performance and, 167

improving, 246

business opportunity, identifying, 243–244

business process flows, 250

business process management, ...