database management system (DBMS):
"The software designed for organizing data and providing the mechanism for storing, maintaining, and retrieving that data on a physical medium (i.e., a database). A DBMS separates data from the application programs and people who use the data and permits many different views of the data."

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Definitions of terms related to database management system (DBMS):

• client/server system
• Closed-loop manufacturing system
• computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• contact management
• corporate performance management (CPM)
• customer relationship management (CRM)
• data warehouse
• Demand management
• enterprise asset management (EAM)
• Inventory data accuracy
• Manufacturing database
• manufacturing execution system (MES)
• nominal data
• normalized data
• planning system
• product data management (PDM)
• product lifecycle management (PLM)
• production database
• project management
• pull system
• push system
• relational database
• reorder point (ROP) system
• supplier relationship management (SRM)
• supply chain management (SCM)
• Two-bin system
• warehouse management system (WMS)