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A
Acceptable Quality Level (AQL)
Accredited Standards Committee (ASC)
Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB)
Activity-Based Management (ABM)
Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS)
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN)
Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)
Amazon's Best Sellers Ranking (BSR)
American Society of Transportation & Logistics
American Trucking Associations
Application Programming Interface (API)
Association of American Railroads
Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS)
Automated Storage/Retrieval System (AS/RS)
B
Business Performance Measurement (BPM)
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
C
Capacity Requirements Planning
Carrier Certificate and Release Order
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR)
Commodity Procurement Strategy
Complete and On-Time Delivery (COTD)
Complete Manufacture to Ship Time
Container Freight Station (CFS)
Container Freight Station Charge
Container Freight Station to Container Freight Station (CFS/CFS)
Continuous Flow Distribution (CFD)
Cost-Per-Mil/Thousand/Impression (CPM/CPI)
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Customer/Order Fulfillment Process
D
Declaration of Dangerous Goods
Defective goods inventory (DGI)
Direct Product Profitability (DPP)
Distribution Channel Management
Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP)
Distribution Resource Planning (DRP II)
Dock-to-stock cycle measurement
E
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Electronic Data Interchange Association
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
Employer Identification Number (EIN)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
Evaluated Receipts Settlement (ERS)
Exporter Identification Number (EIN)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
F
Finished Goods Inventory (FG or FGI)
Fulfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit (FNSKU)
Functional Acknowledgement (FA)
G
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Government Bill of Lading (GB/L)
GTIN (Global Trade Item Number)
H
I
Intermittent-Flow, Fixed-Path Equipment
Intermodal Container Transfer Facility
International Import Certificate
International Maritime Bureau (IMB)
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
International Standards Organization (ISO)
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Inventory Management System (IMS)
J
Just-in-Time Logistics (or Quick Response)
K
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
L
Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Carriers
Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Logistics Data Interchange (LDI)
M
Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Supplies (MRO)
Management information system (MIS)
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP-II)
N
National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC)
Net Profit (AKA Profit Margin)
New Product Introduction (NPI)
Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)
O
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
Over, Short, and damaged (OS&D)
P
Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC)
Performance and Event Management Systems
Performance Measurement Program
Portable Data Collection Terminal (PDT)
Primary Manufacturing Strategy
Production Planning and Scheduling
Q
Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
R
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Release-to-Start Manufacturing
Resources requirements planning
Return Material Authorization or Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA)
Return Product Authorization (RPA)
S
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)
Shop Floor Production Control Systems
Small Group Improvement Activity
SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code)
Standard Cost Accounting System
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM)
Supply Chain Integration (SCI)
Supply Chain Inventory Visibility
Supply Chain Network Design Systems
Supply Chain Strategic Planning
Supply Chain-Related Finance and Planning Cost Element
T
Total Cumulative Manufacture Cycle Time
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Total Supply Chain Management Cost (five elements)
Total Supply Chain Response Time
Transportation Management System
Transportation Planning Systems
Truck Stop Electrification (TSE)
U
Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act
Unique Parcel Identifier (UPI)
United Nations Standard Product and Service Code (UN/SPSC)
United States Railway Association
V
Value-Added Productivity Per Employee
Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI)
W
Warehouse Management System (WMS)