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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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- DAF
- Deliver At Frontier - Incoterm
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- DAN
- Delivery Advice Note
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- DC
- Distribution Centre, in retail a central warehousing
or cross-docking centre where goods are held, split, sequenced and
distributed to the retail stores.
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- DCF
- Discounted Cash Flow (cash in the future is worth less than cash
now).
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- DCM
- Distribution Channel Management - also partner relationship
management; sell-side e-business and community.
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- DDP
- Delivered Duty Paid
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- DDSC
- Demand Driven Supply Chain
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- DDSN
- Demand Driven Supply Networks
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- DDU
- Delivery Duty Unpaid
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- DEA
- Dynamic Engineering Applications - Gartner term
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- DEQ
- Delivery Ex-Quay
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- DES
- Delivery Ex-Ship
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- DFU
- Demand
Forecasting Unit - may be a larger unit of measure (UOM) than the
Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) as consolidated demand is more stable to
forecast.
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- DFM
- Design For Manufacturing or DFMA - the
redesign of a manufacturing process to reduce the steps and complexity.
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- DFT
- Demand Flow Technology
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- DI API
- Data Interface Application Programming Interface (SAP
term)
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- DII
- Days In Inventory
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- DLA
- Dynamic Location Allocation - Warehouse
Management System (WMS) feature
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- DLT
- Dynamic Lead Time
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- DMS
- Document Management System
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- DOA
- Dead On Arrival - faulty goods found when the consumer gets
the goods home.
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- DOG
- Daily Order Generation (really!)
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- DOS
- Days Of Supply - the number of days of sales the on-hand
inventory represents.
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- DP
- Duty Paid
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- DPC
- Direct Product Cost - the total costs of a product's
distribution, transportation, handling and advertising (marketing).
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- Also Dynamic Period Control
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- DPM
- Dynamic
Performance Management - a variant of MES coined by Foxboro -
'real-time economic management' - operator based fighter pilot
style displays.
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- Also Distribution Planning Model - proprietary demand and inventory planning software
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DPO
- Days Purchased Outstanding
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- Also Documentary Proof of Origin
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DPP
- Direct Product Profitability
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DPS
- Detailed Planning Schedule
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- DRP
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DRP II
- Distribution Requirements (or Resource) Planning, the distribution version
of MRP and MRP II. Routings are replaced by distribution networks between
say central warehouses and branches and bills of material can span across
different sites. (Thanks to Rob McConachie)
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- DSD
- Direct Store Delivery - a retail delivery that has not passed through
a distribution centre.
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- DSO
- Days Sales Outstanding
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- DSS
- Decision Support System - a system that makes better use of the
available information to enable better (management) decisions.
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- DTC
- Direct To Consumer.
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- DTD
- Door To Door delivery
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- DUN
- Distribution Unit Number - DUN-14, not a bar-code type but frequently constructed from 12/13 digit retail barcode numbers with a check digit.
Includes the product code and a preceding logistical variable digit
which can indicate the level of containment of a product (Thanks
to Felipe Barousse Boué, piensa.com)
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- DUP
- Duty UnPaid
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- DWT
- Dead Weight Tonnage - a ship's cargo capacity
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