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Please search the abbreviations by using the alphabet links above.
The purpose of this tool is to list and define abbreviations used within the supply chain,
logistics and
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) areas. Please Email any terms that you think are missing or
where the definition is incorrect. All suggestions will be credited.
This work is copyrighted.
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B2B
- Business to Business internet or commerce - this is the main growth area for the
Internet connecting supply chains of companies together through
comprehensive Internet XML communications and offering goods through
on-line catalogues and portals.
Also known as BBP -
Business to Business Procurement.
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- B2C
- Business
to Consumer (Customer) Internet - these are the front end e-commerce pages such as the
Amazon
and Gap pages where
consumers can purchase goods and services.
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- B2E
- Business to Extended Enterprise - PwC initiative to transact
business through web based portal technologies connected to critical
business applications.
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- Business to Employee portals - Internet environments creating a
self-service work environment for enterprise employees.
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- BACS
- Banks Automated Clearing Service
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- BAM
- Business Activity Monitoring - Gartner Inc. term
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- BAPI
- Business Application Programming Interface - SAP term to describe
the interface used between SAP and external applications.
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- BBP
- Business
to Business Procurement (also B2B). Use of the Internet to support
purchasing usually making use of portals and catalogues.
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- Also Budget Billing Plan
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BC
- Business Configuration or Basic Component - SAP terms
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BCS
- Business Consolidations
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BEFO
- Best Before date First Out - A date stating the limit to retain
certain characteristics of a product (quality, freshness etc.) (Thanks to
Felipe Barousse Boué, piensa.com)
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BER
- Beyond Economic Repair - when the projected cost of repair is
above a set percentage proportion of the replacement costs.
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- BEx
- Business Explorer (part of SAP BW)
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- BI
- Business Intelligence
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- BM
- Bench Marking - generally defined as finding and implementing best practices that lead
to superior Supply Chain performance and a continuous process of
measuring a companies performance against industry leaders. (Thanks to Stephen Butler),
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- BOG
- Buy Out the Guarantee - a retailer may buy out the guarantee
from the supplier, taking over, say, the responsibility for returns and repairs
in the first year.
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- BOGOF
- Buy
One Get One Free - Retail terminology
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- BOL
- Bill Of Lading (Thanks to Stephen Butler) Also can be B/L
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- BOM
- Bill Of Material - a master list of the quantity and type of
materials, components and sub-assemblies required to produce a
finished product or assembly. If a BOM is seen as upside down vertical tree structure
then those materials at the bottom of each branch are bought-in
(procured) materials and each sub- level is a subassembly (perhaps
requiring a work order as an instruction to produce) until the
finished product is produced at the top of the tree. Especially in the
aerospace industry a BOM can have a very large number of levels. In
the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries BOMs can have
by-products and co-products. A BOM can even reference itself in some
cases, say, where a chemical reaction requires some of the end-product
as a catalyst.
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- BOMP
- Bill Of Material Processor - a very early precursor to MRP
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- BPI
- Business Process Integration - defining, enabling and managing the
exchange of enterprise
information through the semantics of a business process view. BPI
comprises three core facets: Process Modeling, Process Brokering, and
Process Management. BPI is a strategic approach, EAI is a tactical
approach. Also Business Process Improvement
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- BPICS
- British Production and Inventory Control Society (now the Institute of
Operations Management).
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- BPM
- Business Process Management
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- BPO
- Business Process Outsourcing, also Business Process Optimization
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- BPP
- Business Process Platform. Also Business Process Procedure.
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- BPR
- Business Process Re-engineering.
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- BPS
- Business Planning & Simulation
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- BRC
- British Retail Consortium
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- BSI
- British Standards Institute
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- BSP
- Business Server Pages
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- BTS
- Balance To Ship -
1. (KMART) The quantity needed for a promotion. 2. (KMART)
The quantity of inventory or ATS that will be shipped out to the stores
for a promotion. This quantity is excluded for turn inventory and
replenishment calculations. 3. Balance or remaining quantity of a
promotion or order that has yet to ship (backorder).
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- BURP
- Bottom-Up Re-Planning - A mechanism whereby materials or capacity
problems are fixed at the lowest possible level of a BOM and then rolled
back up to the top of the BOM.
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- BW
- Business Warehouse (as in SAP BW) or Business Information Warehouse
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- BWS
- Beers, Wines and Spirits
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