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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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- EAI
- Enterprise Application Integration -
linking ERP and other enterprise systems together. NEON (New Era of
Networks) and CrossWorlds are two of the key players. Linking systems is key
for e-business. Gartner say 'firms implementing enterprise applications
spend at least 30% on point-to-point interfaces'.
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- EAN
- European
Article Number; a defined numbering mechanism to uniquely identify
every retail product and packaging option. This is usually what the
barcode represents on goods (see UPC).
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- EAM
- Enterprise Asset Management
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- EBITA
- Earnings Before Interest, Taxes and Amortization
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- EBR
- Electronic Batch Record
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- EC-CS
- Enterprise Controlling - Consolidation System
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- ECM
- Enterprise Commerce Management - term coined by AMR to distinguish
ERP type products aimed at the Internet and customer facing technology
demands.
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- ECO
- Engineering Change Order
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- ECR
- Efficient Consumer Response - A term used in the food industry for
maximizing efficiency in moving products from the manufacturer through
the distributor and retailer to the ultimate consumer at the lowest
cost. Also Engineering Change Request.
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- EDI
- Electronic
Data Interchange - can mean any form of electronic communication
but usually means the structured, formatted messages sent between
companies to order goods, send forecasts, and invoices over private
communication networks (VAN Value Added Network suppliers). Common
in Automotive (i.e. Odette standards) and Food and Drink (i.e. TradaCom, EDIFACT) industries.
Standards first emerged in the 70s and 80s.
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- EDIA
- Electronic Data Interchange Association - a national body that
promotes and controls the use of EDI in a given country.
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- EDIFACT
- EDI For Administration, Commerce and Transport.
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- EDLP
- Every Day Low Pricing - effectively retailer speak for
long term supplier discounts. A term used, primarily in the food
industry, that suggests the manufacturer is offering no advertising or
promotional allowances on the products so identified.
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- EFQM
- European Framework for Quality Management
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- EFR
- Efficient Foodservice Response - like ECR
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- EH&S
- Environmental Health & Safety (Also EHS)
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- EFTPOS
- Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale - usually the till system at
a retail point. Made by companies such as IBM and Fujitsu. In some cases,
these till systems are be capable of performing retail stock management
and reordering (Also EFT/POS or 'eftpos').
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- EIM
- Effective Inventory Management (Thanks to Stephen Butler).
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- EIS
- Executive (or Enterprise) Information System - computerized
information system which relies heavily on the use of graphics to
analyze and present management information.
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- ELA
- European Logistics Association
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- ELC
- Export Letter of Credit
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- EM
- Event Management
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- EMA
- Enterprise Marketing Automation - a component of a CRM system to
automate marketing processes such as lead qualification and the
compilation of campaign lists.
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- EMEA
- Europe, Middle East and Africa
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- EMI
- Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence
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- ENT
- Enterprise or Enterprise, Networking and Telecommunications
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- EOI
- Economic Order Interval - the interval, rather than the quantity,
between orders that will minimize the total inventory costs.
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- EOL
- End Of Life
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- EOQ
- Economic Order Quantity - the optimum quantity of a particular item
of material or component which an organisation should order. it takes
into account usage rates, acquisition cost and holding costs. The
standard EOQ formula is the square root of 2 times demand times order
completion cost divided by carrying cost.
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- EP
- Enterprise Portal (as in SAP EP)
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- EPO
- Enterprise Profit Optimization - term invented by Manugistics (the
supply chain planning company) to represent a higher level of
optimization than purely resource optimization, business profitability.
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- EPOS
- Electronic Point Of Sale - sophisticated retail tills.
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- EPP
- Emergency Planning and Preparedness - solution for government and
military agencies to plan for emergency scenarios across supply chains.
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- EPS
- Earnings Per Share
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- ER
- Efficient Replenishment or Effective Replenishment - part of ECR
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- ERM
- Enterprise Relationship Management. AMR term for the progression from CRM.
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- ERO
- Enterprise Resource Optimization
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- ERP
- Enterprise Resource Planning - an all-encompassing business
management system (a software package) capable of managing and
integrating all parts of a business (or businesses) from financials, to
operations to manufacturing.
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- Technically it's the same as MRP II but with all the
'multi's'; multi-currency, multi-warehouse, multi-company etc. Most
software providers with
MRP and MRP II products now, in some cases incorrectly, call themselves ERP
providers.
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- Also Electronic Road Pricing
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- ERP II
- The next level of Enterprise Resource Planning using the Internet to
collaborate and integrate outside the organisation to partners,
suppliers and customers. Term invented by AMR.
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- ESA
- Enterprise Services Architecture
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- ESR
- Enterprise Service Repository
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- ETL
- Extract, Transform and Load - usually loading data from
different sources into, perhaps, a Data Warehouse for business Intelligence
purposes.
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- ETO
- Engineer
To Order - extreme form of MTO where a product is engineered
specifically to a customers order / specification / contract. An oil
rig is essentially engineered to order.
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- EUL
- Efficient Unit Loads
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- EVA
- Economic Value Added - same as NPV Net Present Value but used in the
USA
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- EWM
- Extended Warehouse Management
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- EXQ
- Ex-Quay
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- EXS
- Ex-Ship
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- EXW
- Ex-Works
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