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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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- VAN
- Value Added Network - a third party supplier that receives EDI
transmissions from trading partners and holds them in a mailbox until
retrieved by the receiving trading partners.
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- VAR
- Value Added Reseller - a company that sells on someone else's
software (say) usually into the mid-market perhaps small to medium sized
enterprises (SMEs). Most software companies employ VARs to sell their product to smaller companies because its uneconomical for them
to do it themselves. Also Value Added Retailer.
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- VAS
- Value Added Services
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- VAT
- Value Added Tax - UK tax on goods
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- VCA
- Value Chain Analysis
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- VCM
- Value Chain Management
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- VICS
- Voluntary Inter-Industry Commerce Standards - 'VICS establishes
cross-industry standards that simplify the flow of product and
information in the general merchandise retail industry for retailers and
suppliers'.
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- VL
- Virtual Logistics
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- VMI
- Vendor Managed Inventory -
the practice of retailers making suppliers responsible for determining
order size and timing, usually based on receipt of retail POS and
inventory data. Its goal is to increase retail inventory turns and
reduce stock outs. Also used outside of retail to replenish steel
stocks, say.
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- VOSA
- Vehicle and Operator Services Agency.
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- VRP
- Vehicle Routing Problem - version of the Traveling Salesman Problem to
optimize vehicle routes.
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