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3PL Third Party Logistics C/S Client/Server
4PL Fourth Party Logistics CAD Computer-Aided Design
A/P Accounts Payable CAM Computer-Aided
A/R Accounts Receivable Manufacture
ABC Activity Based Costing CAM-I Consortium on Advanced
AIAG Automobile Industry Action Manufacturing-International
Group CAPM Computer-Aided
ALE Applications Link Enabling Production Management (U.K.)
(SAP protocol) CASE Computer-Aided Software
AMR Advanced Manufacturing Environment
Research CE Concurrent Engineering
ANSI American National CFM Customer Focused
Standards Institute Manufacturing
ANX Automotive Network CIM Computer Integrated
Exchange Manufacturing
API Application Programming CLM Council of Logistics
Interface Management
APICS American Association for COM Component Object Model
Production and Inventory Control CORBA Common Object Request
Systems Broker Architecture
APO Advanced Planning CP Constraint Programming
Optimizer (SAP) CPC Collaborative product
APQC American Productivity and commerce
Quality Center CPFR Collaborative Planning,
APS Advanced Planning and Forecasting and Replenishment
Scheduling CPG Consumer Product Goods /
ASP Application Service Provider Consumer Packaged Goods
/ Active Server Pages CRM Customer Relationship
ATP Available to Promise Management
B2B Business-To-Business CRP Capacity Requirements
B2C Business-To-Customer Planning / Continuous
BAP Business Alliance Replenishment Programs
Programme (Oracle) CTO Configure to Order
BOM Bill Of Materials CTP Capacity To Promise
BPR Business Process Re-
engineering

D-F
DBMS Data Base Management
System
DCOM Distributed Component
Object Model
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DEA Dynamically Engineering
Applications (Gartner Concept)
ECOs Engineering Change
Orders
ECR Efficient Customer
Response (also Early Customer
Review)
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EIS Executive Information