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    Abbreviation List

    Last updated on Oct 21, 2024

    A–C

    A–C | D–I | J–O | P–R | S–T | U–Z |

    ABM

    Apple Business Manager (ABM) is a web portal that Teamwork uses to distribute its apps.

    ALU

    Alternate Lookup. Same as CLU, an alphanumeric identifier for stores that have their own special designation for items.

    API

    Application Programming Interface (API) is a method of obtaining information from, or supplying information to, Teamwork’s Cloud HQ (CHQ).

    ASN

    An Advance Ship Notice (ASN) is a document usually sent from a warehouse that indicates what was actually packed to be shipped and is now in transit to the store/location.

    ATF

    Available to fill.

    ATS

    Available to sell.

    ATV

    Average Transactional Value (ATV) is the Retail Value (before discounts and taxes) for the period selected divided by the number of Sales Receipts which were included in the Retail Value calculation.

    Retail Value is calculated based on item sales, but does not include non-item lines such as gift cards, gift certificates, sales order deposits, charge items, fees, and taxes.

    AUR

    Average Unit Retail (AUR) is an average Retail Value of net items sold for the period, calculated by the Retail Value (before discounts and taxes) of all merchandise sold for the period divided by the net number of items sold for the period.

    AVS

    An Address Verification Service (AVS) verifies the accuracy of an address to ensure its existence.

    AWS

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

    B2B

    Business To Business (B2B) is a transaction type which occurs between two businesses.

    B2C

    Business To Customer (B2C) is a transaction type between a business and one of its customers.

    BI

    Business intelligence (BI) is the organized information from raw data that is collected by the computer. In Teamwork, BI involves using Data Mines to find the information you want.

    BLOB

    BLOB stands for a “Binary Large Object,” a data type that stores binary data.

    Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) can be complex files like images or videos, unlike other data strings that only store letters and numbers.

    BOM

    Beginning of month.

    BOPIS

    Buy Online, Pickup In-Store (BOPIS) Orders are used when customers purchase items online via a website or webpage, and the customer picks up the item or items at a store rather than have the items shipped to them.

    BOS

    Business Operation System.

    BQ

    BigQuery.

    CDN

    Content Delivery Network (CDN), also referred to as a Content Distribution Network.

    CF

    Control Form.

    CHQ

    Cloud Headquarters.

    CLU

    A Custom Lookup (CLU) identifier is an alphanumeric identifier used for stores that have their own special designation for items.

    CM

    A Credit Memo is given to a customer by a seller that provides goods and/or services.

    CMD

    Credit Memo Deposit (CMD) is a credit memo generated against a Review Order as a deposit. A credit memo of this type can be assigned if it is linked to the Review Order and unassigned if the customer cancels/deletes the Review Order after making a deposit.

    CMSC

    Credit Memo Store Credit (CMSC) is a credit memo issued against a return instead of refunding the original payment (or by manual entry as an appeasement).

    COF

    Card on file.

    COG

    Cost of Goods.

    COGS

    Cost Of Goods Sold.

    CRM

    Teamwork’s Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) allows retailers to manage how they interact with their customers. This can include loyalty programs, marketing programs, and customer analytics.

    CRS

    Customer Service Representative.

    CSHQ

    Cloud Services Headquarters (CSHQ) means the headquarters of the cloud services - something like the senior management of all “cloud services”. The noun is “Headquarters” and the Cloud Services is the type of headquarters it is.

    D–I

    A–C | D–I | J–O | P–R | S–T | U–Z |

    DAM

    Digital Asset Manager.

    DCSS

    DCSS is an abbreviation of Department, Class, Subclass 1, Subclass 2. This hierarchy is used to organize items within a catalog.

    DDoS

    Distributed Denial Of Service. A DDoS attack is the intentional paralyzing of a computer network by flooding it with data sent simultaneously from many individual computers.

    DRP

    Disaster Recovery Plan.

    DTN

    Device Transaction Number (DTN) is a number assigned to a transaction which is unique for a given device.

    EAP

    Employee Allowance Program (EAP) is the amount the employee can use to purchase products with a discount over a period, which can result in a 100% discount on products.

    EBP

    Employee Benefit Program (EBP) is utilized to provide a flexible system of discounts to customers marked as employees.

    EC

    Ecommerce.

    EID

    External Identifier (EID) is an alphanumeric identifier of an entity (an item, a receipt, etc.) in non-Teamwork software which a retailer may currently be using.

    EMS

    An EMail Service or Provider (EMS) supplies support for email.

    EOD

    End of day.

    EOM

    End of month.

    EPC

    Electronic Product Code (EPC).

    ERP

    Enterprise Resource Planning (EPR) is a comprehensive software solution that companies use to manage many facets of their business such as accounting, supply chain, buying, merchandise planning, financial planning, inventory, and analytics among others.

    ETL

    Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) is a data integration process that combines data from multiple data sources into a single, consistent data store that is loaded into a data warehouse or other target system.

    FC

    Foreign currency.

    FIFO

    First in, first out (FIFO) is a method of managing items in the warehouse or storage: the first products that come must be sold first.

    GAE

    The Google Application Engine (often referred to as GAE, Google App Engine, or simply App Engine) is a cloud computing platform as a service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Applications are sandboxed and run across multiple servers. App Engine offers automatic scaling for web applications. As the number of requests increases for an application, App Engine automatically allocates more resources for the web application to handle the additional demand.

    GC

    Gift Card.

    GCP

    Google Cloud Platform.

    GDPR

    General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in European Union (EU) law on data protection and privacy in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

    GMROI / GMRI

    Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI or GMRI).

    GTIN

    Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is a unique identifier for trade items used to look up product information in a database.

    GUID

    GUID stands for Globally Unique Identifier.

    A GUID is a 128-bit text string that represents an identification (ID).

    GWP

    Gift with purchase (GWP) is a form of marketing in which the retailer offers customers a gift (usually free) upon spending a certain amount or purchasing a specific product.

    HA

    High Availability (HA) - an infrastructure architecture solution with two SQL servers that Teamwork uses to minimize downtime.

    HQ

    Headquarters. The compilation of data throughout your store or stores.

    HRM

    Human Resource Manager.

    J–O

    A–C | D–I | J–O | P–R | S–T | U–Z |

    JSON

    JavaScript Object Notation.

    LRP

    Loyalty Reward Program.

    LTS

    Long Term Support version. For example, version 6.47 of POS PRO. This release is for clients who need consistent, stable operations. LTS versions are updated with bug fixes and are intended to be reliable for an extended period (6-12 months).

    MDM

    Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a third-party solution that allows for the management and control of applications installed on devices within an organization’s control.

    MFA

    Multi Factor Authentication.

    MKE

    Manual Key Entry.

    MSRP

    Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price. This is the price the manufacturer suggests selling the item at.

    Navision HQ.

    O/H

    On Hand.

    OFL

    Order Fill Logic (OFL) describes a set of rules/policies used to fulfill customer orders.

    OMS

    Order Management System.

    Ops

    This referred to Store Operations, the precursor to iPad POS.

    OR

    Open Return.

    P–R

    A–C | D–I | J–O | P–R | S–T | U–Z |

    PBL

    Pay by Link.

    PCI

    Payment Card Industry (PCI), the industry that verifies that processing and transmitting credit card information is done through a secure environment.

    PCO

    Personal Checkout.

    PGC

    Physical Gift Card.

    PII

    Personally Identifiable Information (PII) stands for any information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc., alone or when combined with other personal information, such as date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, etc.

    PIR

    Personal Info Record. When a sales document is created or imported, any personal info is saved to a Personal Info Record (PIR) stored in Secure CRM.

    PLU

    Product Lookup (PLU) is a unique 6-digit number assigned to each item by Teamwork.

    PO

    Purchase Order.

    POC

    Point of Contact.

    POP

    Payment Orchestration Platform.

    POS

    Point-of-Sale.

    QPBL

    Quick Pay by Link.

    PR

    PR stands for: 1) Purchase Receipt, or 2) Purchase Return.

    PSP

    Payment Service Provider.

    QA

    Quality assurance (QA) is the process of product review to identify if it meets required expectations or has any errors.

    RCM

    Rich Content Media.

    RCM

    Rich Content Manager.

    RCT

    Retail Cloud Technologies.

    RDL

    Report Design Language is used by Teamwork’s developers to design reports and data relations.

    RMA

    Return Merchandise Authorization.

    RO

    Reserve Order.

    RR

    Return Receipt.

    RR

    RR stands for Rapid Release. Rapid Releases come with the newest functionalities and improvements, with special approval required due to their rapid developement cycle. A Rapid Release may not be as stable as a Long-Term-Support Release and the support timeframe for a Rapid Release is shorter (only 4 to 8 weeks, compared to the 6 to 12 months for a Long-Term-Support Release).

    RTA

    Real-time availability.

    RTC

    Real-Time Connector.

    RTV

    Return to Vendor Receipt.

    RTW

    Retail Teamwork.

    RVO

    Review Order.

    S–T

    A–C | D–I | J–O | P–R | S–T | U–Z |

    SA

    Store associate.

    SaF

    Store and Forward.

    SCO

    Self Checkout.

    SCRM

    Secure Customer Relationship Manager.

    SFCC

    Sales Force Commerce Cloud.

    SFTP

    Secure File Transfer Protocol.

    SFV

    Ship From Vendor.

    SKU

    Stock Keeping Unit (SKU). A term used by retailers to indicate a certain style or a particular item.

    SM

    Ship Memo.

    SMTP

    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is the way e-mails are sent.

    SO

    Special Orders. These are done when an item is not readily available in the store.

    SO

    Sales Order.

    SP

    Store Pick Up.

    SR

    Sales Receipt.

    SSID

    Service Set Identifier. A case-sensitive, 32-alphanumeric character unique identifier on a public Wi-Fi network, ensuring that only those approved users can access the network.

    SSL

    Secure Sockets Layer. A system some servers use to encrypt data that is being transmitted over the web.

    SSO

    Ship Sales Order.

    SVS

    Stored Value Services. This is how Teamwork tracks how much credit a customer has, whether on a gift card or store credit.

    T-IN

    Transfer In.

    T-OUT

    Transfer Out.

    TAS

    Teamwork Analytic Services.

    TM

    Transfer Memo.

    U–Z

    A–C | D–I | J–O | P–R | S–T | U–Z |

    UAT

    User Acceptance Testing.

    UPC

    Universal Product Code (UPC) is a unique, 12-digit number assigned to retail merchandise identifying both the product and the vendor selling the product.

    UPT

    Units Per Transaction.

    VA

    Visual Allocation (VA) is the process used to create automated transfer orders across a range of locations.

    VAT

    Value Added Tax.

    VGC

    Virtual Gift Card.

    VLU

    Vendor lookup (VLU) is a number used to identify vendors.

    VPOS

    Virtual Point of Sale.

    VR

    Verified Return.

    WO

    Warehouse Order (WO) is an order issued to the warehouse to take action on a customer’s order.

    WOS

    Weeks of supply.

    XML

    Extensible Markup Language (XML).

    XSD

    Extensible Scheme Definition (XSD).