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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.
- C2G
- Cradle to Grave - full product life-cycle
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- C&F
- Cost and Freight - cost includes goods and transport
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- Also CF, CAF and CFR
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- CAD
- Computer Aided Design - use of computers to graphically design and
model products. Usually linked to CAM systems.
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- CAE
- Computer Aided Engineering
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- CAF
- Currency Adjustment Factor or Cost And Freight
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- CAGR
- Compound Annual Growth Rate
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- CAM
- Computer Aided Manufacturing - usually the link between CAD and
production. Defined as the use of computers to program, direct and
control production equipment in the manufacture of fabricated
components.
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- CAM-I
- Consortium on Advanced Manufacturing - International.
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- CAO
- Computer Assisted Ordering - computerized generation of store replenishment
orders from POS, PI and shelf-stock data.
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- CAP
- Customer Account Planning
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- CAPEX
- CAPital EXpenditure - term used to describe the monetary requirements of an
initial investment perhaps a new machine. (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- CBD
- Cash Before Delivery
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- cCRM
- Collaborative CRM (Customer Relationship Management.)
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- CCR
- Capacity Constraining Resource - the bottleneck
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- CCT
- Corporate Consulting Team
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- CDC
- Cross Dock Centre - a stockless (or virtual)
distribution centre where goods 'cross docks' between receiving and shipping
docks without going into stock (warehouse). This usually happens quickly and is
achieved by suppliers delivering individual store orders and marked out floor
areas representing each store.
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- Also Consolidated Distribution Centre and Combined Distribution Centre.
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- CDG
- The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by road or rail regulations
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- CDP
- Continuous Deal Pricing - An average of deal and non-deal
pricing available to distributors who do not partake in this high / low
level pricing. A version of Every Day Low Pricing (EDLP) applied to the
trade.
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- CE
- Concurrent Engineering
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- CEA
- Comprehensive Enterprise Application - term used by Giga
Group. Another name for an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system such SAP or
Oracle.
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- CEI
- Contract
End Item (Finished Good / something that's sold)
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- CEL
- Customer Engagement Lifecycle (SAP term)
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- CFD
- Continuous Flow Distribution
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- CFM
- Customer Focused Manufacturing
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- Also Collaborative Freight
Management - using alliances between freight / logistics companies,
customers and suppliers to cut transport costs, improve efficiency and
add value.
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- Also Corporate Finance Management
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- CHEP
- Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool - Australian owned company that issues,
collects, repairs, washes and reissues more than 255 million pallets and
containers.
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- CHIEF
- Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight - a UK customs declaration
processing system that includes electronic processing, calculation of duties,
currency and quantity conversions, and automated consignment clearance.
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- CI
- Continuous Improvement - usually bottom up kaizan approach to
waste and cost reduction.
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- CIC
- Customer Interaction Centre - successor to the idea of Customer
Support Centers where service, sales and marketing interaction is all
rolled into one service. Many companies are moving to idea of creating 'teleweb'
functions where all forms of customer interaction whether by phone or
the web are managed together.
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- CIF
- Cost, Insurance and Freight
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- CILT
- Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - formed from Institute of
Logistics and The Chartered Institute of Transport
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- CIM
- Computer Integrated Manufacturing - defined as the complete
automation of the manufacturing process from design, planning,
procurement and control of systems through to handling, production and
processing of materials. A little old fashioned but still a valid
concept and goal.
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CIP
- Carriage and Insurance Paid To (Incoterms)
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CIPS
- Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
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CIT
- Commission for Integrated Transport
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CLM
- Council of Logistics Management
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- CMMS
- Computerized
Maintenance Management Systems, possible use of SAP's Plant Maintenance
(PM) module.
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- CMR
- Customer Managed Relationship - a self-service approach to customer
management, enabling people to, usually electronically over the Internet, obtain
the services or information they need themselves.
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- CO
- Controlling (Cost Accounting) - SAP module name. Also Call Off (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- COD
- Cash On Delivery (same as CWO, Cash With Order)
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- CofC
- Certificate of Conformity (Thanks to Graham Hill)
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- CofI
- Certificate Of Inspection
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- CofM
- Certificate Of Manufacture (Also known as COM).
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- CofO
- Certificate Of Origin
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- CofS
- Certificate Of Shipment
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- COF
- Customer Orientated Fulfillment system - term used by Pfizer
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- COO
- Call Off Order (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- COMMS
- Customer Orientated Manufacturing Management System - essentially
what would now be called an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
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- COS
- Costs Of Sale
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- COGS
- Cost of Goods Sold
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- COSHH
- Control
of Substances Hazardous to Health
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- CP
- Constraint Programming
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- CPC
- Collaborative Product Commerce - a new category of software and
services, defined by Gartner Group and Aberdeen Group, that uses
internet technologies to tie together product design, engineering,
sourcing (including manufacturing and purchasing), sales, marketing (and
other staff functions), field services, and customers in a global
knowledge network. This is an extension beyond Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI).
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- Also Certificate of Professional Competence - Freight, a
professional standard for UK haulage operators.
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- CPD
- Collaborative Product Development - moves the New Product Development
(NPD) cycle online and becomes the sole source of information about the
new product or range. Project tasks, management and workflow are all
carried out online.
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- CPDM
- Collaborative Product Definition Management - a term introduced by
CIMdata, solutions beyond the traditionally engineering focused
Product Data Management (PDM) packages that facilitate collaborative
work processes such as visualization and collaboration, enterprise
application integration technologies, and web-based approaches.
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- Also cPDM
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- CPFR
- Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment - collaborate
in key supply chain processes to increase mutual efficiencies, focus
on common goals and measures. Also it recognize different business,
technological and organizational requirements and changes the
collaboration effective to meet mutual goals. CPFR is a VICS
initiative. (Thanks to Gordon
Bennie)
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CPG
- Consumer
Packaged Goods - most food, drink, electrical goods, white / brown goods
etc.
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- CPM
- Corporate Performance Measurement - Gartner defines
this as the methodologies, metrics, processes and systems used to
monitor and manage the business performance of an enterprise.
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- CPT
- Carriage Paid To (Incoterm)
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- CQM
- Center for Quality Management, Certified Quality Manager,
Cost Accounting and Quantitative Methods - CIMA
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- CRINE
- Cost Reduction In The New Era (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- CRM
- Customer
Relationship Management (accumulate, store and analyze customer
data to understand buying habits and to personalize services
and products). Siebel
(now Oracle)
is a leader in this marketplace.
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- CRP
- Capacity Requirements Planning - the process of determining how much
labour and material resource is required to accomplish the tasks of
production. Associated with RCCP and MPS. Also Continuous
Replenishment Program.
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- CRR
- Cost Recovery Ratio or Rate or Report - collections/cost or
operating costs as a percentage of total sales.
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- CRS (or CR)
- Continuous Replenishment System - replenishment based on Distribution
Requirements Planning (DRP), as calculated by retailer or supplier, and
retail supplied status reports.
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- CS
- Customer Service
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- CSCMP
- Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, formerly known as
the CLM (Thanks to Felipe Barousse Boué,
piensa.com)
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- CSCP
- Collaborative Commerce and Supply Chain Planning; Gartner defined term.
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- CSM
- Component
and Supplier Management (Web based component databases, searching,
on-line ordering, procurement management, links to design engineering
and the supply chain).
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- CSRP
- Customer Synchronised Resource Planning -
brand of ERP initially from Symix (bought by Frontstep, then MAPICS, now
Infor; that's industry consolidation for you!).
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- CTI
- Computer Telephony Integration - links incoming call
identification with customer databases to identify caller and pre-fill
forms and pop-ups.
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- CTO
- Configure to Order - a more advanced form of ATO where the rules of which
options can be assembled with which base product and whether they are, say,
mutually exclusive are built into a rule based knowledge tree. Users can
then configure deliverable products, such as cars, on-line with the
certainty that they can be assembled. (Thanks to Sue Carmichael).
- CTP
- Capable To Promise - similar to Available To Promise (ATP)
but is much more complex in that it doesn't just rely on stock building,
forecasts or MPS to check stock availability into the future but can
ripple through bills of materials into supplier schedules and capacity
to see if the supply chain is capable of meeting a proposed order. CTP
and Global ATP usually require Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
technology.
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- CY
- Container Yard
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