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supply chain network of organizations and business processes for procuring materials, transforming raw materials into intermediate and finish products, and distributing the finished products to customers just-in-time scheduling system for minimizing inventory by having components arrive exactly at the moment they are needed and finished goods shipped as soon as they leave the assembly line. bull whip effect distortion of information about the demand for a product as it passes from one entity to the next across the supply chain. supply chain planning systems systems that enable a firm to generate demand forecasts for a product and to develop sourcing and manufacturing plans for that product demand planning determining how much product a business needs to make to satisfy all its customers' demands supply chain execution systems systems to manage the flow of products through distribution centers and warehouses to ensure that products are delivered to the right locations in the most efficient manner. push-based model supply chain driven by production master schedules based on forecasts or best guesses of demand for products, and products are "pushed" to customers pull-based model supply chain driven by actual customer orders or purchases so that members of the supply chain produce and deliver only what customers have ordered.