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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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- SAP
- 'Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing' or as it is in
the original German 'Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der
Datenverarbeitung'. Many people talk about the largest ERP software
vendor without knowing that it is an acronym and what it actually
stands for.
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- From 1972 to 1977, SAP stood for 'Systemanalyse und Programmerentwicklung' (Thanks to
Rabbe Storgards).
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- SAPPHIRE
- SAP's Perennial Highly Integrated R/2 / R/3 Exchange - SAPPHIRE is SAP's
user event.
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- SBO
- Sales Based Ordering
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- SBT
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Scan-Based Trading
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- SC
- Supply Chain
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- SCADA
- Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition - highly functional process
control systems. These systems theoretically connect below MES
(Manufacturing Execution Systems) but above PLC (Programmable Logic
Controllers) which control and sequence physical plant valves and actuators,
for example.
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SCC,
SCCI
- Supply Chain Council and Supply Chain Council International. See
SCOR entry below.
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- Also Supply Chain Collaboration
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- SCE
- Supply Chain Execution - the level of systems below Supply Chain
Management that enact the plan. Warehousing and Transportation type
functionality complimentary to SCP.
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- SCEM
- Supply Chain Event Management - applications providing inventory
visibility, product availability and order status across a corporate supply
chain (SSA (was EXE, was AllPoints) 'Glass Pipeline' product is an example).
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- SCI
- Supply Chain Integration - back-end integration but with greater
emphasis on B2B integration and moving goods and services.
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- SCIV
- Supply
Chain Inventory Visibility - Track and trace systems (i.e. FedEx),
event driven, prioritizes and re-routes.
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- SCM
- Supply
Chain Management - umbrella term for most ERP and SCP / APS products.
Theoretically supply chain issues can be seen as a subset of logistics
issues.
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- SCO
- Supply Chain Optimization
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- SCOR
- Supply Chain Operations Reference Model.
This is the model developed by the Supply Chain Council SCC and is built around
four major processes: plan, source, make and deliver. The aim of the SCOR is to
provide a standardised method of measuring supply chain performance and to use a
common set of metrics to benchmark against other organizations. PRTM, a founding
member of the SCC, actually does the research to come up with industry
supply chain best practice metrics.
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- SCP
- Supply
Chain Planning - optimizing the supply chain - products like
i2, Manugistics, Logility and SAP's Advanced Planning
and Optimizing (APO) module. These are the kinds of products that can
use TOC (Theory Of Constraints) and mixed integer linear programming techniques to simultaneously
optimize
materials and constraints. Advanced Available To Promise (ATP)
and Capable To Promise (CTP) functionality is usually found within
these packages.
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- SCPM
- Supply Chain Performance Management - allows
companies to identify, understand, act and validate supply chain
decisions before those decisions can adversely affect overall corporate
performance. Products by companies such as SeeCommerce are active in
this area.
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- SD
- Sales and Distribution - SAP module name
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- Also Supplementary Declaration
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- SDC
- Sample Data Collection
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- SDI
- Simplified Declaration (Imports)
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- SDK
- Software Development Kit
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- SDP
- Simplified Declaration Procedure
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- SDT
- Scheduled Delivery Time
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- SDW
- Simplified Declaration (Warehouse)
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- SED
- Shipper's Export Declaration
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- SEM
- Strategic Enterprise Management (as in SAP SEM)
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- SEM-BPS
- SEM-Business Planning and Simulation
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- SEM-BCS
- SEM-Business Consolidation
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- SFA
- Sales
Force Automation - precursor of CRM
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- SFAC
- Shop Floor Automation and Control
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- SFC
- Shop Floor Control
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- SFDC
- Shop Floor Data Collection; equipment, including barcode readers used to
record activities on the shop floor. Also MDC - Machine Data Capture and RDT
- Radio Data Terminals bi-directional remote systems using RF - Radio
Frequency communications.
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- SG&A
- Sales, General and Administrative costs - usually
used in association with Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) or Cost of Sales (COS).
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- SI
- Systems Integrator
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- SIG
- Special Interest Group
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- S/ITS
- Software and IT Services
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- SKU
- Stock
Keeping Unit (pronounced 'skew') - generic term for products
especially in retail and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) environments.
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SLA
- Service Level Agreement (Thanks to Stephen Butler).
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SMART
- Sales & Marketing Assistance Repository Tool
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SMB
- Small to Medium sized Business
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SME
- Small to Medium sized (or Mid-sized) Enterprise - a term used by
SAP. Also Subject Matter Expert.
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- SMED
- Single Minute Exchange of Dies. A machine set-up reduction
methodology aiming to allow smaller batch sizes to pass through a
machine.
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- SMG
- Slow Moving Goods
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- SMI
- Supplier Managed Inventory
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- S&OP
- Sales and Operations Planning (also known as SOP).
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- SO
- Service Order (Thanks to Stephen Butler)
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- SOA
- Services Orientated Architecture
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- SOHO
- Small Office / Home Office
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- SOM
- Shift Operations Manager
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- SOP
- Sales Order Processing (or Sales and Operations Planning in SAP).
(Thanks to Sue Carmichael).
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- Also Standard Operating Procedures.
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- SOW
- Statement Of Work
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- SOX
- Sarbanes-Oxley
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- SPC
- Statistical Process Control
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- SPEC2000
- Aerospace and Defense industry data exchange standard
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- SPIC
- Simplified Procedure for Import Clearance
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- SPIF
- Sales Performance Incentive Fund - a financial reward aimed at short-term
sales objectives.
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- Also SPIFF - Special Performance Incentive for Field Force.
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- SPO
- Service Process Automation - a development from Professional
Services Automation PSA - which is a kind of ERP system for services
companies who are more interested in employee expenses, projects and
billing
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- SPOC
- Single Point Of Contact
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- SQC
- Statistical Quality Control
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- S/R
- Storage Retrieval
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- SRA
- Strategic Rail Authority.
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- SRM
- Supplier Relationship Management - a strategic sourcing system to make the
most of supply and purchase data.
Includes evaluating: supply strategy
development, supplier qualification, contract negotiation and management,
enabling: content management and supplier self-service and engaging:
self-service procurement, plan-driven procurement and supplier relationship
monitoring.-
- Also Stakeholder Relationship Management
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- SRN
- Stillage Returned Note
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- SSCC
- Serialized Shipping Container Code
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- SV
- Service
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- SWB
- Short Wheel-Base - a van perhaps
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