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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)
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)
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
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
48. Modularity	SCM102 p. 7 SCM106 p. 2
49. Newsvendor Model	SCM103 p. 7 SCM103 p. 8
50. NPI
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
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
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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