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Glossary of Suppply Chain Terminology
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Advance Shipping Notice
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Electronic transaction with details on products being shipped with container id numbers. Container may be a carton, gaylord, or pallet. Advance Shipping Notifications are transmitted by EDI, EDIFACT, XML, and/or data on a barcode/RFID tag. Known as the 856 in EDI X12 specification.
AKA Goods Received Note.
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TPA
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Trading Partner Agreement. A formal legal document to authorize data exchange between the company and its customers, vendors, carriers, bank, or other trading partner.
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Test Order
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Entering an order into a live production application software system to see if a problem exists and/or if a problem has been resolved. These test runs can also be run on a test system. A test order can be a sales order, purchase order, work order, production order, transfer order - it depends upon what is being referenced in the discussion.
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Pro-Forma Invoice
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The Pro-Forma invoice is a legal document for international shipments for non-documents between the supplier and the customer. The Pro-Forma Invoice is used for the customs in the country of destination to determine the customs value. This document is issued by seller/exporter in foreign trade showing quantity, description of goods, commodity code, country of origin, price, terms of sale, weight, full name/address of purchaser, name/address of seller, and date. It is common for 3 or 4 copies of the Pro-Forma Invoice to be attached to the shipment to assist in clearing customs. The Pro Forma Invoice can be created and sent to the customer prior to the shipment, for multiple reasons.
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Packaged Software
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Complete software applications sold to a large market and not intended as custom software. [KA]
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EULA
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End User License Agreement. A contractual agreement for usage of a software package or operating system.
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Commercial Off The Shelf
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Commercial Off the Shelf are products that are commercially available and are normally not customized. These are ready-to-use products.
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Conference Room Pilot
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In a test mode, the new application software is setup, configured, and workflows are attempted. This "finalization" of the application software is done in the conference room pilot, as a variety of key people (and regular workers) are utilized to validate the configurations.
This is a iterative process, where changes are made to rules, parameters, and data, then the battery of tests to validate the workflows begin again. Implementation of the software into production begins shortly after the CRP is finished..
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BYOD
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Bring Your Own Device. Due to the technology trend of tablet and intelligent phones (Android based phones & IPhones), the IT departments in most organizations are now supporting BYOD and tie that device into the company network through secured software.
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Full Disk Encryption
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Desktop PCs, laptops, and notebooks should have full disk encryption when these computers are utilized for a government, corporate, or other large organization. Saved informaiton on these computers are encrypted, so that unauthorized users may not easily view the data contained on the disk drive. Without encryption, the data is easy to view in human readable format.
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DIY
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Do-It-Yourself. This is a job/project that one will be doing the work alone, especially for those home improvement projects.
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Predetermined Motion Time System
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Time values that are predetermined for a given body motion or a sequence of body motions. In the warehouse, PMTS is used for settings standards through Methods Time Measurement (MTM). PMTS is a analysis done by an industrial engineer for motions needed to perform a task and then assign an accurate & acceptable time standard to each of the motions.
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MTFBWY
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May The Force Be With You. MTFBWY is an acronym used in online messaging
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RAWR
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Right Answer, Wrong Reason. RAWR is an acronym used in online messaging
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Bin
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A space that is designated to hold inventory. Bin in a rack is an enclosed space. A floor bin could contain numerous pallets. A staging bin holds inventory while it is going in / out / processed in the warehouse.
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I Couldn't Agree More
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I Couldn't Agree More. ICAM is an acronym used in online messaging.
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Know What I Mean?
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Know What I Mean?. KNIM is an acronym used in online messaging.
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Don't Quote Me On This
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Don"t Quote Me On This. DQMOT is an acronym used in online messaging.
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What'S In It For Me?
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What's In It For Me?. WIIFM is an acronym used in online messaging.
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