| Collaborative demand planning | Helps organizations reduce their investment in inventory, while improving customer satisfaction through product availability.
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| Collaborative engineering | Allows an organization to reduce the cost and time required during the design process of a product.
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| Cycle inventory | The average amount of inventory held to satisfy customer demands between inventory deliveries.
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| Effectiveness IT metric | Measure the impact IT has on business processes and activities including customer satisfaction, conversion rates, sell-through increases, etc.
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| Efficiency IT metric | Measure the performance of the IT system itself including throughput, speed, availability, etc.
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| Pull technology | Organizations receive or request information.
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| Push technology | Organizations send information.
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| Safety inventory | Includes extra inventory held in the event demand exceeds supply.
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| Selling chain management | Applies technology to the activities in the order life cycle from inquiry to sale.
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| Supply chain | Consists of all parties involved, directly or ndirectly, in the procurement of a product or raw material.
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| Supply chain event management (SCEM) | Enables an organization to react more quickly to resolve supply chain issues.
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| Supply chain execution (SCE) | Software that automates the different steps and stages of the supply chain.
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| Supply chain management (SCM) | Involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability.
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| Supply chain planning (SCP) | Software that uses advanced mathematical algorithms to improve the flow and efficiency of the supply chain while reducing inventory.
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