ABC analysis, 214
Absorbing states, 510–513
Acceptance sampling tables, 530
Accounting data, 14
Accounts receivable application, 510–513
Activities
cost to date for, 404
defining, 387, 388–389
Activity difference, 404
Activity-on-arc (AOA), 390
Activity-on-node (AON), 390
Activity times estimates, 391–392
Adaptive smoothing, 174
Additive rule, 25
Additive time-series models, 150
Additivity, 238
Airbus Industries simulation, 461
Airlines schedules maximizing profit, 369
Alabama Airlines, 496–497
Algorithms, , 309, 324
Alternate optimal solutions, 263–264, 300
Alternatives, 64, 238, 239
limiting the number of alternatives selected, 365
Ambulances, in Chile, 438
American Airlines
decision analysis, 90
revenue management, 308
American Food Store, 503–504
American Meteorological Society (AMS), 61
AMS. See American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) table, 122, 125
Analytic postoptimality method, 264–265
Andrew-Carter, Inc., 352–353
Annual carrying costs, 190, 194
production run model, 196
Annual holding cost, 197
calculating with safety stock, 207–208
Annual ordering costs, 190, 197
Annual setup costs, 197
ARCO p-charts, 538–539
Arcs, 320, 329, 330, 331, 332
Area of feasible solutions, 244
ARENA software, 483, 485
ARIMA. See Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) chart
Arnold’s Muffler Shop
exponential distribution, 47–48
multichannel queuing model, 440–441
single-channel queuing model, 435–438
Arrivals, characteristics of, 429–430
Aspen Technology, 269
Assignable variations, 531, 532
Assignment problems, 309, 319, 325–327, 363, 476
Assumptions, simplifying, 13–14, 15
Athens Olympic Games Organizing Committee (ATHOC), 15
Atlas Foods, 503–504
@Risk, 485
Attributes, 537–541
Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) chart, 538
Average inventory, 190, 193–194, 197
Average queue length, 442
Average waiting time, 442
Averaging techniques
exponential smoothing, 156–158, 160–162
moving averages, 154