Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management

Glossary of Terms

Available to licensed readers, the glossary provides quick reference to definitions of important terms and serves as a course index by providing links to each term within the course. The glossary terms, definitions, and links fill in according to your license status for the module(s) that contain each term. With a valid license for all modules in our complete course, "Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management", the full glossary provides definitions for more than 80 terms:

Term	See:
1. Accurate Response	SCM103 p. 3
2. Activity-Based Costing	SCM102 p. 22
3. Allocation Gaming	SCM101 p. 7 SCM102 p. 15
4. Automated Transactions	SCM104 p. 15
5. B2B	SCM104 p. 2
6. B2C	SCM104 p. 2
7. Beer Game	SCM102 p. 8 SCM102 p. 9 SCM102 p. 10
8. Build-to-Order	SCM101 p. 5 SCM103 p. 4 SCM105 p. 6
9. Build-to-Stock	SCM101 p. 5 SCM105 p. 4
10. Bullwhip Effect	SCM101 p. 7 SCM102 p. 7
11. Bullwhip Metric	SCM105 p. 10
12. Business Process Modification	SCM104 p. 12
13. Business Strategy	SCM105 p. 3
14. Cash Conversion Cycle	SCM101 p. 9 SCM105 p. 8
15. Chain-Wide Metrics	SCM101 p. 9 SCM105 p. 12
16. Component Commonality	SCM102 p. 7 SCM103 p. 6 SCM106 p. 2
17. Conjoint Analysis	SCM106 p. 14
18. Contribution Margin	SCM102 p. 3 SCM103 p. 7
19. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)	(Used throughout; definition provided)
20. Decision Support System	SCM104 p. 12
21. Demand Variability	SCM101 p. 4
22. Direct Sales	SCM102 p. 19
23. Downstream	SCM101 p. 2
24. Dynamic Pricing	SCM101 p. 10 SCM104 p. 15
25. Efficient Supply Chain	SCM101 p. 12 SCM102 p. 4 SCM102 p. 5
26. Engineering Change Order (ECO)	(Used throughout; definition provided)
27. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)	SCM104 p. 13
28. EVA	SCM105 p. 9
29. Functional Product	SCM101 p. 12 SCM102 p. 3
30. Hedging	SCM103 p. 12
31. Hockey Stick Effect	SCM102 p. 13 SCM102 p. 16
32. Information Distortion	SCM101 p. 7 SCM102 p. 12
33. Information Hub	SCM104 p. 10
34. Innovative Product	SCM101 p. 12 SCM102 p. 3
35. Integral Design	SCM102 p. 7 SCM106 p. 2
36. Inventory as Time Supply	SCM105 p. 7
37. Inventory Control	(Used throughout; definition provided)
38. Inventory Holding Cost	SCM105 p. 7
39. Inventory Turns	SCM102 p. 4 SCM105 p. 7
40. Inventory Value	SCM105 p. 7
41. Lead Time	SCM101 p. 3 SCM102 p. 4
42. Line Item Fill Rate	SCM105 p. 4
43. Long-Term Contract	SCM104 p. 11
44. Markdown	SCM102 p. 3
45. Market Capitalization	SCM105 p. 9
46. Mass Customization	SCM103 p. 4 SCM106 p. 14
47. Metrics	(Used throughout; definition provided)
48. Modularity	SCM102 p. 7 SCM106 p. 2
49. Newsvendor Model	SCM103 p. 7 SCM103 p. 8
50. NPI	(Used throughout; definition provided)
51. Order Batching	SCM101 p. 7 SCM102 p. 13
52. Order Fill Rate	SCM105 p. 4
53. Organizational Silos	SCM101 p. 3 SCM101 p. 6
54. Overage Cost	SCM103 p. 7
55. Plant Utilization	SCM105 p. 2
56. Postponement	SCM101 p. 8 SCM102 p. 7 SCM106 p. 7 SCM106 p. 8 SCM106 p. 9 SCM106 p. 10 SCM106 p. 11
57. Pre-Positioning	SCM103 p. 5
58. Price Elasticity	SCM103 p. 13
59. Private Exchange	SCM104 p. 9
60. Process Variability	SCM101 p. 4
61. Product Life Cycle	SCM102 p. 3 SCM102 p. 6
62. Promotions	SCM101 p. 7 SCM102 p. 14
63. Public Exchange	SCM104 p. 9
64. Push-Pull Point	SCM101 p. 5 SCM106 p. 13
65. Responsive Supply Chain	SCM101 p. 12 SCM102 p. 4 SCM102 p. 5
66. RFID	SCM105 p. 12
67. Risk Sharing	SCM103 p. 14 SCM103 p. 15 SCM103 p. 16
68. Risk-Based Production Planning	SCM103 p. 3
69. ROI	SCM105 p. 9
70. Safety Stock	SCM102 p. 20 SCM106 p. 9
71. SKU	(Used throughout; definition provided)
72. Spot Market	SCM104 p. 11
73. Stockout	SCM102 p. 3
74. Supplier-Managed Availability (SMA)	SCM102 p. 18
75. Supply Chain	SCM101 p. 1
76. Supply Chain Cycle Time	SCM105 p. 8
77. Supply Variability	SCM101 p. 4 SCM103 p. 10
78. Tradeoff Curve	SCM101 p. 6
79. Underage Cost	SCM103 p. 7
80. Unit Cost	(Used throughout; definition provided)
81. Unit Fill Rate	SCM105 p. 4
82. Universality	SCM106 p. 3
83. Upstream	SCM101 p. 2
84. Value Proposition	SCM105 p. 3
85. Vendor-Managed Inventory	SCM102 p. 17
86. Virtual Integration	SCM104 p. 6
87. Web Services	SCM101 p. 11 SCM104 p. 13

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