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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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- MAA
- Management Analysis and Accounting
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- MAM
- Mobile Asset Management
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- MAPS
- Manufacturing, Accounting and Planning System - term used by
Pfizer
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- MAS
- Managed Application Solution - similar to ASP
where a third-party manages your systems for you.
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- MBA
- Mobile Business Applications. Also Master of
Business Administration qualification.
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- MBWA
- Management By Walking About
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- MDF
- Market Development Funds - co-operative marketing funding given by
manufacturers to resellers (channel).
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- Also Mobile Data Framework.
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- MDG
- Master Data Generator
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- MDM
- Master Data Management
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- MES
- Manufacturing
Execution System - plant floor routing and process management,
simulation and modeling. These systems, which can include finite
scheduling functionality, ensure that parts, tools, resources,
instructions etc. all arrive at the right place at the right time.
MES has now been succeeded by MOM
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- MHE
- Materials / Mechanical Handling Equipment - Palletisers, sortation
systems, carousels etc.
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- MIS
- Management Information System - business reporting and analysis software
tools
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 MM
- Materials Management - SAP module name
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- MOA
- Memorandum of Agreement
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- MOM
- Manufacturing Operations Management, the successor to MES -
Manufacturing Execution Systems. S95 is a standard, developed by the ISA
- Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society, that defines the
terminology between an ERP system and an MES (now MOM) system;
essentially that is the interface from the plant to the enterprise.
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- MOU
- Memorandum of Understanding (Thanks to Vivek Narayan).
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- MP
- Marketplace
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- MPS
- Master Production Schedule - the plan for completion of orders for
finished goods, whether for stock or customer order. In an MRP II system
this is normally managed semi-manually by the 'master scheduler'.
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- MR
- Materials Replenishment
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- MRO
- Maintenance
Repair Overhaul (or Operations or Operating supplies) - specialized industry sector usually associated with
service businesses repairing photocopiers say. This is very different
from the manufacturing mechanisms described above.
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- MRO is also used as shorthand to describe
non-production purchased materials in e-Procurement environments. In this
case MRO would mean consumables (paper, ink cartridges) and spares (motor
parts), say. Similar to term to NPR (Non-Production Related) goods.
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- MRP
- Materials
Requirements Planning -works out what to buy and make from what
you need (sold or plan to sell). MRP basically balances supply and
demand based on, in some cases, quite complex rules. A development from the days
of Bills Of Material Processors (BOMP). The definition of MRP was made in the
1960's by Orlicky.
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- MRP only looks at material
constraints, it does not look at capacity. Traditionally, this was done as a
separate exercise through tools such as Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)
and Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) down to Finite Capacity Scheduling
(FCS) systems.
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- MRP
II
- (pronounced
'MRP two') Manufacturing Resource Planning - same as MRP but
with Financials, Sales and Purchasing and some Manufacturing around the outside. Also
defined as closed loop MRP. It was with the development of MRP II that
whole business processes could be linked into a single integrated
business system.
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- MSCONS
- Metered Services Consumption Report - EDIFACT
message category used to transfer consumption data
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- MSDS
- Manufacturing Safety Data Sheets - descriptive
sheets of potentially hazardous substances stored or used in the
workplace.
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- MSS
- Management Support System
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- MTBF
- Mean Time Between Failures (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- MTD
- Make To Demand - related to Produce To Demand -
demand is usually some combination of forecast, order or plan (MPS).
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- MTF
- Make
To Forecast - a more sophisticated combination method sitting somewhere
between MTS and MTO. Usually associated with manufacturing
environments where the sales order cycle time is faster than the
production time but where an intermediate stocking point is used to
keep part finished goods. A sales forecast can be used to predict the
level of stocks at the intermediate point. Usually, some form of
forecast consumption mechanism is used so that real sales orders eat
up the forecast.
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- MTO
- Make
To Order - a product is only made when an order is received. Usually low
volume engineered goods. For many companies MTO is seen as the holy
grail of manufacturing strategy; a scenario where there is minimal
stock and cost only occurs when a sales order is received. In reality,
a combination of strategies focusing on the particular process,
product and market demands is usually best.
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- MTS
- Make
To Stock - products are made and put into store according to safety
stock or re-order point calculations. Usually where the sales order cycle
time is faster than the production or assembly lead time. A MTS
environment could be simply controlled by reorder points.
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- MTTR
- Mean Time To Repair (Thanks to Srinivas Rao)
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- MU
- Merchandisable Unit - a grocery display unit on wheels that can be stacked,
racked and rolled to position in the store.
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