Glossary of Acronyms

AA

Affinity Analysis.

AC

Advanced Clustering, also known as CIS.

AIF

AI Foundation, which generally refers to the AIF applications and user interfaces.

AIF APPS

The AIF applications job schedule in Process Orchestration & Monitoring (POM).

AIF DATA

The AIF data warehouse job schedule in Process Orchestration & Monitoring (POM).

ASO

Oracle Retail Assortment and Space Optimization.

BI

Business Intelligence.

CDT

Customer Decision Tree.

DB

Database.

DT

Demand Transference.

MDS

Oracle MetaData Services.

POG Hierarchy

Defined by three levels: POG department, POG category, and POG subcategory. The POG hierarchy is used to organize POGs within POG sets. For example, a leaf to root path in the POG hierarchy: Grocery -> Snacks -> Crackers.

POG Node

A leaf node (POG subcategory) within a POG set.

POG Set

Historical POGs in the same POG subcategory and with the same seasonal attribute. An ASO term.

RI

Retail Insights, formerly known as Retail Analytics. Shares the same AIF data warehouse tables as the rest of the platform.

RADM

Retail Analytics Data Model, also known as RI Schema or AIF data warehouse.

RCM

Oracle Retail Category Management.

IPO-DF

Inventory Planning Optimization Demand Forecasting, formerly known as RDF.

IPO-IO

Inventory Planning Optimization’s (IPO) Inventory Optimization (IO) module.

Seasonal Attribute

Refers to a specific year independent time period for an APO assortment and a POG set. Examples include Spring, holiday, back to school, year-round. (Also, Season Attribute.)