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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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- P&D
- Pick-up and Delivery or Drop-off. Also P/D
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- P&L
- Profit & Loss
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- PAN
- Personal Area Network - like a Bluetooth PDA to mobile phone
connection.
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- PBIT
- Profit Before Interest and Tax
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- PBT
- Profit Before Tax
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- PDA
- Personal Digital Assistant - like a Palm Pilot
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- PDCA
- Plan-Do-Check-Act - a Deming, of quality fame, problem solving
technique.
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- PDI
- Pre-Delivery Inspection - especially of new vehicles by the manufacturer /
dealer.
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- PDM
- Product Data Management - software designed to support the recording, automating and sharing
of
design and life-cycle data for products. Encompasses document management,
workflow management, product structures, part classification, control group
technology, project and programme management. See CPDM above.
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- PDO
- Protected Designation of Origin
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- PE
- Purchase Enquiry (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- PHS
- Packaging, Handling and Storage
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- PI
- Perpetual Inventory
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- PIDX
- Oil and Gas industry data exchange standard
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- PIL
- Product Innovation Lifecycle (SAP term)
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- PIXC
- Persons In eXcess of Capacity - public transport terminology.
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- P&IC
- Production and Inventory Control
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- PL
- Pick List or Picking List (Thanks to Felipe Barousse Boué,
piensa.com)
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- PLC
- Programmable Logic Controller. Control and sequencing systems for
automation. Also APC Advanced Process Control.
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- Also Product Life Cycle (Thanks to Stephen Butler). Also
Public Limited Company.
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- PLG
- Public Light Goods vehicle
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- PLM
- Product Lifecycle Management or Plant Lifecycle Management.
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- PLS
- Product Lifecycle Services or Sourcing. Also Project Life Span
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- PLT
- Purchasing Lead Time - length of time from deciding to purchase an
item and its arrival in stores.
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- PLU
- PLU - Price Look-Up (or Price Look-up Unit) code. Used for retail
products sold loose, bunched or in bulk (to identify the different types
of fruit, say). As opposed to UPC (Universal Product Codes) for
packaged, fixed weight retail items. A PLU code contains 4-5 digits in
total. The PLU is entered before an item is weighed to determine a
price. (Thanks to David McMurray)
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- PM
- Plant Maintenance - SAP module name
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- PMMS
- Plant Maintenance Management Systems
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- PO
- Purchase Order (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- POC
- Point Of Contact
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- POD
- Proof Of Delivery
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- POI
- Point Of Interaction - the point where a customer began their
interaction with a company. Used to differentiate 'channels' to markets
or customers.
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- POL
- Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants
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- POP
- Purchase Order Processing - common module name for the part of an ERP
system that enables the procurement processes. Usually this is not just
purchase orders but the whole myriad of requisitions, contracts, agreements
and other forms of purchasing processes. (Thanks to Sue Carmichael).
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- Point of Purchase - in Retailing
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- POQ
- Period Order Quantity
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- POR
- Pick On Receipt - product is receipted and picked in one operation
(movement), therefore the product never actually touches the ground within
the warehouse. It is unloaded from one vehicle and re-loaded on an
outbound vehicle. Related to Cross Docking. (Thanks to Alan White).
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- POS
- Point Of Sale - either a system or the advertising material used to
display or highlight product in a retail environment.
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- PP
- Production Planning - SAP module name
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- PPAP
- Production Parts Approval Process
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- PPM
- Project Portfolio Management. Also Periodic Preventative Maintenance.
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- PPPI
- Production Planning for the Production Industry - SAP module name
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- PPS
- Production Planning and Scheduling or Planning Production System
(sometimes used instead of MRP in Germany).
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- PR
- Purchase Requisition (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- PRIME QR
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Product Replenishment and Inventory Management Edge for Quick Response.
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- PRM
- Partner Relationship Management - third-party sales channel
automation where a company sells through distributors or resellers, say,
and needs to manage the lead registration process, for instance.
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- PRN
- Packaging Recovery Note - shorthand for Packaging Waste Recovery Notes
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- PS
- Project System - SAP module name
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- PSA
- Professional Services Automation - essentially ERP for the services
industry. Focus is on accounts, relationships, quotations, contracts,
project management, time recording and billing of professional services
(consulting, say).
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- PSMD
- Plan, Source, Make, Deliver - Supply Chain Council and SCOR model.
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- PTD
- Produce To Demand - related to Make To Demand
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- PTO
- Package To Order
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- PTP
- Profitable To Promise - if we took this order could we make money from it.
A development of ATP (Available to Promise) and CTP (Capable to
Promise).
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- PTS
- Permission To Ship
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- PTX
- Private Trading Exchange - online marketplace. As opposed to a
public exchange.
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