A/P

C. frns

Kreditorenbuchhaltung

A/B or AB

Address Book

10

2

A/P

Accounts Payable

8

15

A/R

Accounts Receivable

8

14

A/V

According to Value

8

2

AAI

Automatic Accounting Instruction

14

3

AAP

Affirmative Action Planning

18

18

AB

Aktiebolag (Sweden)

No translation

2

ABC

Activity-Based Costing

24

3

ABI

Application Binary Interface

20

3

ABM

Activity-Based Management

20

3

ACD

Automatic Call Distributor

44

38

ACE

Adjusted Current Earnings

18

3

ACH

Automated Clearing House

14

3

ACP

Actual Contribution Percentage

16

3

ACP

Average Contribution Percentage

18

3

ACRS

Accelerated Cost Recovery System

18

4

AD&D

Accidental Death and Dismemberment

16

4

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

12

3

ADDL

Additional

10

3

ADJ

Adjustment

10

12

ADP

Actual Deferral Percentage

16

3

ADR

Assets Depreciation Range

14

3

AEC

Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

18

3

AF

Advanced Forecasting

10

2

AFE

Authorization for Request

10

3

AFRA

Average Freight Rate Assessment

16

4

AFS

Available for Sale

10

3

AG

Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)

No translation

2

AGI

Adjusted Gross Income

14

14

AGM

Auto Generate Master

16

3

AGVS

Automated Guided Vehicle System

22

3

AIA

American Institute of Architects

16

3

AIX

Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM's proprietary version of UNIX)

32

3

AKA or aka

Also Known As

6

5

Amt

Amount

8

4

AMT

Alternative Minimum Tax

12

3

AN

Address Number

8

8

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

16

4

AOQL

Average Outgoing Quality Level

16

3

AP

Accounts Payable

8

6

AP/C

Agricultural Products, Crops

14

10

APA

Advanced Price Analysis

14

3

APD

Application Program Driver

16

3

API

Air Position Indicator

16

3

API

American Petroleum Institute

14

3

API

Application Program Interface

14

3

APICS

American Production and Inventory Control Society, Inc.

28

5

APPL

Application

APR

Annual Percentage Rate

10

12

AQL

Acceptable Quality Level

16

11

AR

Accounts Receivable

8

6

AS

Agricultural Services

10

4

AS

Application System

10

2

AS/RS

Automatic Storage/Retrieval System

20

14

ASAP

As Soon As Possible

6

4

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

26

5

ASI

Application Specific Instructions

18

3

ASI

Application Specific Instrument

18

3

ASN

Advanced Ship Notice

16

3

ASP

Auxiliary Storage Pool

12

3

ASTM

American Society for Testing and Materials

20

4

ATM

Automated Teller Machine

16

20

ATO

Associated Text Output

14

3

ATO

Assembly to Order

12

7

ATP

Available to Promise

12

3

ATPU

Available to Promise Unadjusted

18

4

ATRS

American Tanker Rate Schedule

18

4

AU

Actual Units

12

2

Avl

Availability

8

8

AWOL

Absent Without Leave or Absent Without Official Leave

10

4

B/D

Barrels per Day

8

4

B/L

Bill of Lading

8

3

BA

Beginning Available

12

9

BA

Budget Amount

10

2

BACS

Bank Automated Clearing System

18

4

BASIC

Business Application Software Introduction Class

22

5

BAU

Beginning Available Unadjusted

20

3

BCI

Billing Control Identification

14

3

BDA

Business View Design Aid

No translation

No translation

BEF

Belgian Francs

12

4

BEP

Break-Event Point

8

3

BFOE

Barrels of Fuel Oil Equivalent

14

4

BIPS

Billion Instructions per Second

6

4

Blk

Blank

6

3

BLOB

Binary Large Object

16

4

bn

Billion

6

5

BO

Back Order

10

2

BOC

Building Operating Costs

14

3

BOL

Bill of Lading

8

7

BOM

Bill of Materials

10

9

BP

Business Partner

10

13

BPI

Bits per Inch

12

3

BPS

Bits per Second

10

3

BPT

Bulk Product Transaction

12

3

Br

Branch

6

3

Brn

Branch

6

3

Brn/Plt

Branch/Plant

12

8

BS&W

Bottom Sediment and Water

16

4

BSFN

Business Function

No translation

No translation

BSVW

Business View

No translation

No translation

BTU

British Thermal Unit

14

3

BTX

Benzene, Toluene, and Xylene

18

3

BU

Budget Units

10

2

BU

Business Unit

10

2

C & F

Cost and Freight

12

12

C/O or c/o

Care of

6

6

C/R

Cash Receipts

10

8

C/S

Client/Server

16

3

CA

Contract Administration

10

2

CAD

Computer Assisted Design

16

3

CAE

Common Applications Environment

18

3

CAE

Computer-Aided Engineering

16

3

CAIT

Computer-Aided Inspection and Test

24

3

CAM

Common Area Maintenance

12

3

CAM

Computer-Aided Manufacturing

16

3

CAP

Computer Assisted Programming

16

3

CAT

Category

6

4

CAPP

Computer-Aided Process Planning

20

4

CASE

Computer-Aided Software Engineering

20

4

CATP

Cumulative Available to Promise

20

4

CBD

Cash Before Delivery

12

10

CBO

Cash Basis Only

10

3

CBT

Computer Based Training

14

3

CC

Cost Center

8

9

CCC

Cycle Count Code

14

3

CCITT

Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy

24

5

CCQ

Office de la construction du Quebec (French)

No translation

3

Cd

Code

4

4

CD

Certificate of Deposit

10

2

CD-ROM

Compact Disc-Read Only Memory

24

6

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

8

2

CFO

Chief Financial Officer

10

7

CFPIM

Certified as a Fellow in Production and Inventory Management

24

5

Chg

Change

6

4

Chk

Check

6

4

CID

Computer-Integrated Distribution

18

3

Cie

Compagnie (France)

3

4

CIF

Central Information File

14

3

CIF

Computer-Integrated Fax

18

3

CIF

Cost, Insurance, and Freight

18

3

CIM

Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

18

3

CIS

Customer Information System

18

3

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer

18

4

CL

Control Language

10

2

CM

Change Management

10

2

CM

Corrective Maintenance

10

13

CMMS

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems

22

4

Cmp

Compensation

No translation

No translation

CMS

Cost Management System

18

3

CNC

Computer Numeric Control

16

4

Co

Company

6

3

CO

Change Order

18

19

COA

Certificate of Analysis

10

3

COBRA

Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act

22

5

COBOL

Common Business Oriented Language

18

6

COD

Cash on Delivery

10

3

COFC

Container on a Railroad Flatcar

14

4

COGS

Cost of Goods Sold

14

3

COLA

Cost-of-Living Adjustment

14

4

COLA

Cost-of-Living Allowance

14

13

COLD

Computer Output to Laser Disk

20

3

COM

Computer Output to Microform

20

3

COM

Component Object Model

No translation

No translation

COMMS

Customer Oriented Manufacturing Management Systems

26

5

COO

Chief Operating Officer

10

9

COQ

Cost of Quality

16

7

COR

Collision Repair

10

3

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker

Core

The central and foundational systems of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software (Financials)

36

4

Corp

Corporation

10

4

COS

Corporation for Open Systems

20

3

CP

Configurator Processing

14

2

CPA

Certified Public Accountant

12

12

CPI or cpi

Characters per Inch

14

3

CPI

Consumer Price Index

16

3

CPI

Continuous Process Improvement

14

3

CPIM

Certified in Production and Inventory Management

24

4

CPM

Critical Path Method

16

3

CPU

Central Processing Unit

14

2

CR

Change Request

18

24

CR or Cr

Credit

12

2

CREDITEL

CREDITEL (Credit Reporting Agency)

14

8

CRP

Capacity Requirements Planning

18

3

CRP

Conference Room Pilot

12

3

CRT

Cathodic Ray Tube

12

3

CS

Client/Server

16

3

CSC

Client Service Coordinator

16

3

CSR

Customer Service Representative

14

3

CSW

Customer Service Workstation

16

3

CTD

Cumulative Trauma Disorder

16

3

CTI

Computer-to-Telephone Integration

18

3

CTI

Computer Telephony Integration

44

40

CTO

Chief Technical Officer

10

3

CTRL or Ctrl

Control

6

5

CTRY

Century

6

3

CUA

Common User Access

14

3

Cum

Cumulative Update

10

4

CUM

Cubic Meter

10

3

CUR

Currency Code

10

13

Curr

Current

6

4

CVP

Cost/Volume/Profit

18

6

D & B

Dun & Bradstreet (Credit Reporting Agency)

34

34

DA

Day

4

3

DASD

Direct Access Storage Device

18

4

DBA

Deductions, Benefits, and Accruals

18

3

DBA

Doing Business As

19

3

DBMS

Data Base Management System

16

4

DCE

Distributed Computing Environment

18

3

DCF

Discounted Cash Flow

14

20

DD

Data Dictionary

10

2

DDE

Dynamic Data Exchange

14

13

DDP

Distributed Data Processing

16

20

DDS

Data Description Specifications

14

3

DE

Design Engineering

10

2

DEMO

Demonstration

6

4

DFI

Deposit Financial Institution

14

3

DFU

Data File Utility

14

3

DIF

Data Interchange Format

14

10

DIL

Data Import Language

14

3

DIN

Deutsche Industrie Norm

No translation

3

DISOSS

Distributed Office Support System

22

6

DIST

Distribution

8

8

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

12

3

Dlt

Delete

6

5

DNC

Direct Numerical Control

14

9

DNS

Do Not Spread

10

3

Do Ty

Document Type

10

8

DOB

Date-of-Birth

10

9

DOI

Division of Interest

10

2

DPI or dpi

Dots per Inch

12

3

Dpt

Department

6

4

DR or Dr

Debit

6

1

DREAM Writer

Data Record Extraction and Management Writer

26

12

DRP

Distribution Requirements Planning

14

3

DRP

Distribution Resource Planning

14

3

DS

Data Structure

No translation

No translation

DSO

Days Sales Outstanding

16

4

Dsp

Display

6

4

DSS

Decision Support System

14

22

DSTR

Data Structure

No translation

No translation

DT

Document Type

10

8

Dta

Data

6

4

DTF

Demand Time Fence

14

3

Dup

Duplication

6

5

DW

DREAM Writer

12

2

DZ

Dozen

4

5

E & P

Earnings and Profits

12

3

E & O

Expenses and Others

12

3

E.P.

Expense Participation

10

2

Email

Electronic Mail

10

6

E&OE

Errors and Omissions Excepted

16

3

EA

Each (Unit of Measure)

16

5

EA

Ending Availability

12

8

EAC

Estimate at Completion

12

3

EADT

Everest Application Development Tool

25

4

EAP

Employee Assistance Program

14

3

EBB

Electronic Burst and Bind

16

3

EC

Edit Code

8

11

EC

European Community

12

2

ECM

Engineering Change Management

14

3

ECN

Engineering Change Notice

14

3

ECO

Engineering Change Order

14

3

ECR

Efficient Consumer Response

16

3

ECS

Electronic Customer Support

16

3

ECS

Energy and Chemical Systems

14

3

EDA

Estimated Date Available

16

3

EDC

Everest Development Center

16

3

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

14

3

EDP

Electronic Data Processing

14

3

EE

Employee

6

6

EEO

Equal Employment Opportunity

14

3

EEOC

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

20

4

EFP

Enterprise Facility Planning

14

3

EFT

Electronic Funds Transfer

14

20

EFTS

Electronic Funds Transfer System

18

22

EI

Employee Involvement

10

8

EIC

Earned Income Credit

14

22

EIN

Employer's Identification Number

12

7

EIS

Enterprise Information Systems

14

3

EIS

Executive Information System

16

3

EM

Equipment Management

10

10

EMEA

Europe, Middle East, and Asia

12

4

EMS

Environmental Management System

14

5

EOI

Evidence of Insurability

10

24

EOJ

End of Job

10

10

EOM

End of Month

6

9

EOQ

Economic Order Quantity

16

14

EP

Expense Participation

10

2

EPOS or epos

Electronic Point of Sale

12

4

EPS

Earnings Per Share

10

13

EPSS

Expert Performance Support System

18

4

EQ

Equal To

6

3

EQP

Equipment

6

3

ER

Employer

6

5

ER

Event Rule

No translation

No translation

ERISA

Employee Retirement Income Security Act

20

5

ERPx

Enterprise Requirements Planning Execution

18

17

ERR

Error

6

5

ESOP

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

14

12

ETC

Estimate to Complete

10

3

ETO

Engineer to Order

12

17

EVP

Executive Vice-President

12

14

EVS

Enumeration Verification System

14

3

Exc

Exclude

6

8

EXW

Ex Works

8

7

F & F or f & f

Fixtures and Fittings

3

3

F/A

Fixed Asset

10

4

FA

Functional Acknowledgement

12

2

FAP

Final Average Pay

14

3

FAS

Final Assembly Schedule

16

13

FAS

Free Alongside Ship

14

19

FASB

Financial Accounting Standards Board

20

4

FASTR

Financial Analysis Spreadsheet Tool and Report Writer

30

5

FCST

Forecast

4

6

FCU

Fax Control Unit

14

3

FDA

Form Design Aid

18

13

FDP

Fiscal Date Pattern

14

7

FED

Federal Tax

8

18

FHA

Federal Housing Administration

20

14

FHC

Freight Handling Code

12

13

FICA

Federal Insurance Contribution Act

20

4

FIFO

First In, First Out

12

4

FIGS

French, Italian, German, Spanish

32

13

FIT

Federal Income Tax

12

9

FK

Function Keys

8

16

FLSA

Fair Labor Standard Act

16

4

FMC

Flexible Machine Center

14

3

FMLA

Family Medical Leave Act

16

3

FMS

Flexible Manufacturing System

14

3

FOB

Free on Board

10

18

FOQ

Fixed Order Quantity

14

3

FPO

Firm Planned Order

14

12

FR

Financial Reporting

14

8

FREQ

Frequency

8

8

FRF

French Francs

10

9

FRS

Federal Reserve System

14

3

FSA

Flexible Spending Account

12

3

ft

Foot

6

3

FTC

Federal Trade Commission

16

3

FTE

Federal Tax Entry

12

3

FTE

Full-Time Employee

12

3

FTE

Full-Time Equivalent

20

3

FTO

Finish-to-Order

14

3

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

18

3

FTZ

Foreign Trade Zones

12

3

FUI

Federal Unemployment Insurance

14

15

FUTA

Federal Unemployment Tax Act

16

11

FWO

Firm Work Order

14

7

FY

Fiscal Year

10

3

FYI

For Your Information

8

7

G & A

General and Administrative Expenses

18

11

G/A

General Accounting

6

11

G/L

General Ledger

10

2

GAAP

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

16

4

GAO

General Accounting Office

10

3

GBC

General Building Contractor

14

3

GBP

British Pounds

6

8

GE

Greater Than or Equal To

12

7

gig

Gigabyte (one billion bytes)

10

5

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

14

3

GL

Glossary

8

7

GmbH

Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Germany)

No translation

4

GOSIP

Government Open Systems Interconnect Profile

26

5

GST

Goods and Services Tax (Canada)

24

3

GT

Greater Than

6

7

GTE

Gross Tax Exclusion

12

3

GUI

Graphical User Interface

14

3

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier (technical system codes)

20

26

H & S

Health and Safety

12

3

HCE

Highly Compensated Employee

10

3

HEX

Hexadecimal

12

9

HLL

High-Level Language

10

22

HQ

Headquarters

6

9

HR

Workforce Management

8

11

HRM

Workforce Management

10

11

HS

Hidden Selection

10

14

HT

Hypertext

10

9

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

24

4

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

24

4

HVAC

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

18

4

I/O

Input / Output Control

16

3

ICCC

Inter Company Cost Center

20

20

ICD

Identification Code Designator

14

2

ICH

Inter Company Hub

14

3

ID

Identification

No translation

2

ID

Inter-Plant Demand

18

17

IDC

Intangible Depletion Cost

14

4

IDL

Interface Definition Language

No translation

No translation

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

22

4

IM

Inventory Management

10

11

In

Inch

6

3

Inc

Include

6

5

Inc

Incorporated

6

4

Inv

Invoice

8

8

IOU

I Owe You

8

9

IP

Internet Protocol

18

2

IPL

Initial Program Load

14

7

IPS

Implementation Planning Session

14

3

IR

In Receipt

6

3

IRA

Individual Retirement Account

14

3

IRS

Internal Revenue Service

8

3

ISO

International Standards Organization

14

3

ISSN

International Standard Serial Number

16

4

IT

Information Technology

10

2

ITC

Income Tax Credit

12

20

ITC

Investment Tax Credit

12

19

ITD

Inception-to-Date

8

12

Itm

Item

6

4

J/E

Journal Entry

12

2

JAD

Joint Application Development

18

3

JC

Job Cost

10

16

JCA

Job Cost Accounting

14

3

JCB

Job Cost Billing

14

3

JE

Journal Entry

12

2

JF

Join File

10

2

JIT

Just-in-Time

6

3

JPO

Java Persistent Object

12

10

JT

Journal Type

12

10

JVI

Joint Venture Interest

10

3

K

Thousand

4

1

Kb

Kilobyte (1,024 bytes)

8

5

KBG

Knowledge-Based Generator

20

3

KK

Kabushiki-Kaisha

16

2

L/C

Letter of Credit

8

7

L/O

Line/Order

10

5

LAN

Local Area Network

10

11

lb

Pound

4

4

LBO

Leveraged Buyout

10

21

LC

Landed Cost

10

10

LCL

Less than a Carload

14

9

LD

Level of Detail

8

2

LDA

Local Data Area

12

15

LE

Less Than or Equal To

12

7

LF

Logical File

10

10

LIFO

Last In, First Out

12

4

LIMIT

Lot-Size Inventory Management Interpolation Technique

26

5

LIPL

License Plate

8

11

LOA

Leave of Absence

6

6

LOB

Line of Business

10

3

LOD

Level of Detail

8

2

LPG

Liquid Petroleum Gas

12

6

LPI or lpi

Lines per Inch

12

3

LRP

Long Range Planning

10

12

LRS

Loading Rack System

12

3

LSN

Lot Serial Number

12

11

LT

Ledger Type

12

2

LT

Less Than

6

7

LT

Line Type

8

7

Ltd

Limited

8

4

LTD

Life-to-Date

10

3

LTD

Long Term Debt

10

13

LTD

Long Term Disability

10

3

LTL

Less than a Truckload

14

9

MACRS

Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System

24

4

MAD

Mean Absolute Deviation

14

18

MAP

Manufacturing Automation Protocol

20

3

MAPI

Messaging Application Program Interface

26

4

MAS

Management Advisory Services

14

3

Max

Maximum

8

4

MB

Megabyte (one million bytes)

12

5

MBD

Mechanical Breakdown

10

3

MBO

Management by Objectives

12

29

MC

Method of Computation

10

10

MCI

Media Control Interface

14

3

MDS

Material-Dominated Scheduling

18

3

MDY

Month, Day, Year

12

3

ME

Manufacturing Engineering

10

2

meg or mega

Megabyte (one million bytes)

12

5

Mfg

Manufacturing

6

4

MI

Machine Instruction

10

11

MI

Manufacturing Instruction

12

9

MICR

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

14

19

MIL-SPEC

Military Inspection Standard

14

8

Min

Minimum

8

4

MIPS

Millions of Instructions per Second

16

4

MIS

Management Information System

14

3

Misc

Miscellaneous

6

6

MMbpd

Million Barrels per Day

10

4

MMS

Manufacturing Management Systems

14

3

MMS

Minerals Management Service

14

3

MNC

Multinational Company

10

16

MNP

Multinational Products

10

15

MO

Month

4

4

MOD

Method of Delivery

10

11

Mogas

Motor Gasoline

12

11

MOQ

Maximum Order Quantity

14

16

MOT

Mode of Transportation

10

8

MPS

Master Production Schedule

14

12

MRB

Material Review Board

16

3

MRI

Machine Readable Instructions

14

19

MRO

Maintenance, Repair, and Operation Supplies

22

3

MRP

Material Requirements Planning

18

14

MRP II

Manufacturing Resource Planning

18

3

MRPx

Materials, Resource, Planning, and Execution

24

19

MSDS

Material Safety Data Sheet

16

4

Msg

Message

6

5

MTD

Month-to-Date

8

12

MTM

Methods-Time Measurement

14

3

MTO

Make-to-Order

12

11

MTOP

Make-to-Order Product

18

20

MTS

Make-to-Stock

12

8

MTSP

Make-to-Stock Product

18

17

MURB

Multiple Unit Residential Building

14

9

MWO

Model Work Order

14

17

N & A

Name and Address

12

10

N/A

Not Available

4

12

N/S

Name Search

8

8

NA

Not Applicable

8

13

NACH

National Automated Clearing House

20

4

NASDAQ

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

28

6

NBV

Net Book Value

10

12

NC

Numerical Control

10

13

NCSA

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

26

4

NDT

Nondiscrimination Test

12

14

NE

Not Equal To

8

5

NER

Named Event Rule (also called event rule business function)

No translation

No translation

NFS

Network File System

14

3

NG

Not Greater Than

8

10

NGM

Netware Global Messaging

12

3

NIFO

Next In, First Out

14

4

NIST

National Institute for Standards and Technology

20

4

NL

Not Less Than

8

10

NLM

Netware Loadable Module

16

3

NNN

Triple Net

10

3

No

Number

4

3

NOA

Net Operating Assets

14

3

NOL

Net Operating Loss

12

14

NOR

Notice of Readiness

18

3

NPBT

Net Profit Before Taxes

12

16

NSF

Non-Sufficient Funds

10

12

NT

New Technology

8

2

NTE

Not to Exceed

8

3

NTED

No Touch Exchange of Dies

8

4

NV

Naamloze Vennootschap (Holland)

No translation

2

NYSE

New York Stock Exchange

16

10

O

Option

6

4

O/T

Overtime

6

8

OBJ

Object

14

8

OCE

Open Collaboration Environment

16

3

OCL

Over Credit Limit

14

3

OCM

Object Configuration Manager

14

3

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

14

3

OD

Organizational Development

10

2

ODBC

Open Data Base Connectivity

16

4

OEE

Overall Equipment Effectiveness

16

3

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

18

3

OH

Overhead

10

9

OJT

On-the-Job Training

10

20

OL

Object Librarian

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding

16

27

OLTP

Online Transaction Processing

16

4

OM

Object Map

8

2

OMB

Office of Management and Budget

18

3

OMI

Open Messaging Interface

20

3

OOP

Out-of-Pocket

6

3

OP

Option

6

4

OP

Order Processing

10

2

Ops Seq No

Operation Sequence Number

12

24

Or Ty

Order Type

10

10

Org

Organization

10

4

OS

Open Systems

10

2

OS

Operating System

10

2

OS&D

Over, Short, and Damaged

18

4

OSF

Open Systems Foundation

14

3

OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Act

18

4

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection

14

3

OT

Overtime

6

3

OTC

Over-the-counter

6

3

OTED

One Touch Exchange of Dies

10

4

oz

Ounce

6

2

P & P or p & p

Postage and Packing

12

3

P & L

Profit and Loss

No translation

3

P & E

Property and Equipment

14

3

P/B/A

Planning/Budgeting/Allocations

20

5

P/E

Price/Earnings

12

3

P/O

Purchase Order

10

2

P/V

Profit/Volume

12

3

pa

Per Annum

6

3

PAC

Production Activity Control

14

3

PACO

Posting After Cutoff

12

4

PBCO

Posting Before Cutoff

12

4

PBYE

Posting Before Year End

12

4

PC

Personal Computer

6

2

PCO

Planned Change Order

32

30

PCS

Personal Computer Support

10

3

PDBA

Payments, Deductions, Benefits and Accruals

24

4

PDCA

Plan-Do-Check-Action

24

4

PDL

Program Design Language

14

17

PdM

Predictive Maintenance

12

3

PDM

Product Data Management

14

3

PDS

Processor-Dominated Scheduling

24

3

PEC

Posting Edit Code

12

3

PERT

Program Evaluation and Revue Technique

20

4

PF

Physical File

10

2

PFC

Projected Final Cost

10

3

PFP

Projected Final Profit

16

3

PFR

Projected Final Revenue

16

3

PFS

Process Flow Scheduling

18

3

PI

Payment Instrument

10

2

PIF

Program Information File

14

16

PLC

Programmable Logic Controller

22

24

PLC

Public Limited Company (United Kingdom)

12

3

PLO

Planned Order

10

3

Plt

Plant

6

4

PM

Preventive Maintenance

12

2

PM

Property Management

12

2

PN

Period Number

8

2

PO

Processing Option

10

2

PO

Purchase Order

10

2

POB

Post Out of Balance

12

3

POE

Purchase Order Entry

14

3

POP

Purchase Order Processing

14

3

POS

Point of Sale

8

3

POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments

24

5

PPAT

People, Places, and Things

14

6

PPB

Part Period Balancing

14

3

PPBS

Program-Planning-Budgeting System

22

3

PPD

Prearranged Payments and Deposits

22

4

PPED

Pay Period Ending Date

14

4

PPM

Parts per Million

14

3

PPO

Preferred Provider Organization

14

3

PPV

Purchase Price Variance

14

3

PR

Payroll

8

3

PR

Public Relations

10

2

PS

Pay Status

10

2

PSF

Per Square Foot

12

3

PSI

Pounds per Square Inch

26

16

PSIA

Pounds per Square Inch Absolute

26

16

PSIG

Pounds per Square Inch Gauge

26

3

PST

Provincial Sales Tax (Canada)

20

3

PSW

Project Strategy Workshop

16

3

PTD

Period-to-Date

16

3

PTE

Part-Time Employee

10

3

PTF

Program Temporary Fix

14

3

PTM

Payroll Tax Management

14

3

Pty

Priority

6

3

PWO

Plan Work Order

16

3

PYE

Previous Year-End

10

3

PYEB

Prior Year-End Balance

14

4

PYEC

Prior Year-End Cumulative

14

4

PYEN

Prior Year-End Net

12

4

Q & A

Questions and Answers

8

3

QA

Quality Assurance

10

2

QB

Qualified Beneficiary

12

2

QBE

Query by Example

12

3

QE

Qualifying Event

10

2

QFD

Quality Function Deployment

14

3

QM

Quality Management

10

2

QO

Quote Order

8

2

Qry

Query

6

5

QTD

Quarter-to-Date

10

3

Qty

Quantity

6

3

R & D

Research and Development

12

3

R/L

Right/Left

8

5

R/O

Required/Optional

16

11

R/V

Reverse/Void

12

3

RA

Revised Amount

12

2

RAD

Rapid Application Development

14

3

RAM

Random Access Memory

14

3

Rand

Random

6

8

RCCP

Rough Cut Capacity Planning

16

4

RDA

Report Design Aid

18

3

RDBF

Running Dollars Balance Format

22

4

RDM

Relational Database Management

18

14

RDM

Relational Document Management

18

3

RE

Real Estate

8

2

Rec

Record

6

6

REC

Reverse Entry Control

10

3

Ref

Reference

6

4

Rel

Relationship

6

4

REP

Rapidly, Economically, and Predictably

20

3

Rev

Revenue

6

10

RF

Radio Frequency

12

2

RFP

Request for Proposal

14

3

RFQ

Request for Quote

6

3

RI

Residual Income

10

3

RiBa

Ricevuta Bancaria

16

4

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

26

4

RL

Response Line

10

2

RL/SU

Response Line/Software Update

20

5

Rmk

Remark

10

2

ROA

Return on Assets

10

3

ROE

Record of Employment

10

3

ROI

Return on Investment

10

12

ROM

Read Only Memory

10

14

ROP

Reorder Point

10

3

ROQ

Reorder Quantity

10

3

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

14

3

RPG

Report Program Generator

16

3

RPM

Residential Property Management

16

3

RPS

Requirements Planning System

14

3

RQBF

Running Quantity Balance Format

22

4

RRA

Reserve Recognition Accounting

14

3

RRN

Relative Record Number

12

3

RRP

Resource Requirements Planning

14

3

RS

RISC System

10

2

RT

Record Type

10

7

RTP

Return to Production

10

3

RU

Revised Units

12

2

RUIA

Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act

16

4

S & H or s & h

Shipping and Handling

14

3

S/N

Serial Number

8

8

S/O

Sales Order

10

2

S.O.

Sales Order

10

2

SA

Société Anonyme (France)

No translation

2

SA

Stand Alone

8

2

SAA

Systems Application Architecture

12

3

SAR

Software Action Request

12

3

SARA

Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act

22

4

SAW

Server Administration Workbench

26

31

SB

Service Billing

10

2

SBL

Subledger

10

2

SBQ

Standard Batch Quantity

10

3

SC

Status Code

8

8

SCC

Service Class Code

12

3

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface

20

4

SDA

Screen Design Aid

18

3

SDI

State Disability Insurance

12

3

SDQ

Shipping, Destination, and Quantity

18

3

SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission

16

3

SEC

Standard Entry Class

14

3

Seq

Sequence

6

4

SEU

Source Entry Utility

12

3

SFAS

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards

18

4

SFC

Shop Floor Control

10

11

SFL

Subfile

8

8

Sfx

Suffix

6

3

SIA

Single Item Authorization

10

3

SIC

Standard Industry Classification

14

10

SIG

Special Interest Group

14

3

SIN

Social Insurance Number

12

14

SIT

State Income Tax

10

22

SKU

Stocking Keeping Unit

14

9

SKU

Stockkeeping Unit

8

9

Sls

Sales

8

4

SMAC

Standard Maintenance Agreement Contract

18

4

SME

Subject Matter Expert

10

3

SMED

Single Minute Exchange of Dies

26

4

SMF

Standard Message Format

14

3

SMS

Shipper Management System

16

3

SNA

Systems Network Architecture

14

3

SNADS

Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services

24

5

SO

Sales Order

10

2

SOE

Sales Order Entry

14

3

SOP

Sales Order Processing

14

3

SOP

Statement of Position

10

3

SOQ

Suggested Order Quantity

14

3

SP

Service Provider

13

14

SpA

Societá per Azioni (Italy)

No translation

3

SPC

Statistical Process Control

14

17

Specs

Specifications

SPI

System Provided Interface

16

3

SPRI

Société de Personnes à Responsibilité Limitée (Belgium)

No translation

4

SPT

Shortest Process Time Rule

18

3

SQC

Statistical Quality Control

14

3

SQL (Sequel)

Structured Query Language

16

3

SRM

Scheduled Routine Maintenance

16

14

SRV

Solutions, Relationships, Value

18

3

SSN

Social Security Number

12

14

STAR

Spreadsheet Tool For Asset Reporting (Fixed Asset Report Writer)

42

4

Std

Standard

8

4

STD

Short-Term Disability

10

3

SUI

State Unemployment Insurance

12

3

SVH

Sick Days, Vacation, Holidays

18

20

SVO

Service Order

10

3

SVR

Software Versions Repository

12

3

SWIFT

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications

22

5

Sy

System

6

5

SYD

Sum-of-the-Years'-Digits

12

3

T & M

Time and Materials

12

3

T/B

Trial Balance

8

8

T/E

Time Entry

10

3

TA

Time Accounting

10

2

TAM

Table Access Manager

No translation

No translation

TBLE

Table

No translation

No translation

TC

Table Conversion

No translation

No translation

TCOS

Technical Committee on Operating Systems

20

4

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

36

6

TDA

Table Design Aid

No translation

No translation

TE

Time Entry

10

3

TEI

Total Employee Involvement

14

3

TER

Table Event Rule

No translation

No translation

TI

Type of Input

10

2

Time Last Upd

Time Last Updated

14

28

TL

Truckload

10

8

TM

Translation Manager

14

2

TOC

Table of Contents

8

10

TOP

Technical/Office Protocol

24

4

TPC

Transaction Processing Council

18

3

TPM

Total Productive Maintenance

16

3

TPOP

Time-Phased Order Point

24

4

TQC

Total Quality Control

12

3

TQE

Total Quality Engineering

12

3

TQM

Total Quality Management

12

3

TRW

TRW (Credit Reporting Agency)

20

3

TT

Translation Tools

10

12

U/M

Unit of Measure

10

8

UBE

Universal Batch Engine

14

3

UCIS

Utility of Customer Information System

18

4

UDC

User Defined Code

12

3

UDD

User Defined Depreciation

16

3

UFC

Universal File Converter

16

3

UFO

Unidentified Foreign Object

18

3

UK

United Kingdom

10

2

ULI

Urban Land Industry

12

3

UM or Um

Unit of Measure

10

8

UOM

Unit of Measure

10

8

UPC

Universal Product Code

14

7

UPD or Upd

Update

6

4

UPS

Uninterrupted Power Supply

16

3

UQF

Untested Quick Fix

18

3

URL

Uniform Resource Locators

16

3

USD

United States Dollars

16

10

VAN

Value Added Network

10

3

VAT

Value Added Tax

8

5

VCF

Volume Correction Factor

14

3

Vchr

Voucher Journal

16

17

VD

Video Display

10

2

VDT

Video Display Terminal

14

3

VDU

Video Display Unit

14

3

VETS-100

Veterans Employment

10

8

VI

Viscosity Index

10

2

VIN

Vehicle Identification Number

12

3

VLCC

Very Large Crude Carrier

12

6

VMI

Vendor Managed Inventory

18

3

VO

Vocabulary Overrides

10

2

VOL or vol

Volume

12

4

VP

Vice-President

8

2

VRS

Vendor Release Scheduling

16

3

VRU

Voice Recognition Unit

14

3

VS

Vendor Scheduling

14

2

VTX

Video Text

10

3

W/ or w/

With

4

2

W & M

Weights and Measures

12

3

W/C

Work Center

10

10

W/H or w/h

Withholding

8

11

W/I or w/i

Within

8

10

W/O or w/o

Without

8

2

W/O

Work Order

10

2

W/Tax

Withholding Tax

8

7

W/W

JD Edwards World Writer

12

12

W-2

Wage and Tax Statement

14

3

W-4

Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate

18

3

W-9

Exception Report

10

3

WACO

Way After Cutoff

10

4

WAN

Wide Area Network

10

3

WARN

Warning

6

5

WB

Workbench

8

9

WBS

Work Breakdown Structure

14

3

WCA

Workmen's Compensation Act

18

3

WF

Work File

10

9

WF

Workflow

No translation

No translation

WIP

Work in Process

8

3

Wk

Week

10

3

WLC

Warehouse, Location, Cost Center

22

3

WM

Warehouse Management

10

2

WMS

Warehouse Management System

14

3

WO

Work Order

10

2

WOP

Work Order Processing

14

3

WORM

Write Once, Read Many

20

4

WPT

Windfall Profit Tax

12

3

WPUM

Weight per Unit of Measure

16

4

WRN

Warning

6

6

WRT

Write

6

5

WTD

Week-to-date

8

11

WW

Who's Who?

8

2

WW

JD Edwards World Writer

12

2

WWW

JD Edwards World Wide Web

8

3

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get

22

7

X

Cross

6

3

X

Phone Extension

10

7

X-Ref

Cross Reference

10

9

XO

Crossover

6

2

Y/N

Yes/No

6

5

yd

Yard

4

3

YE

Year End

6

5

YLD or yld

Yield

12

3

YR

Year

4

2

YTD

Year to Date

8

10

ZIP

Zone Improvement Plan (Postal Code)

25

3