ERP Internals/Glossary
This section provides an extensive list of terms with their definitions.
- 1099
- 401K
- ABC
- Accounting Equation
- Accounting Period See Fiscal Year
- Accural Basis
- Activity-based Costing
- Ad Hoc
- Adjustment
- Advanced Planning and Scheduling
- Amortization
- Analytics
- API See Application Programming Interface
- Application Programming Interface
- APS See Advanced Planning and Scheduling
- Asset
- Audit
- Audit Trail
- Available to Promise
- Average
- Backflush
- Back Order
- Balance Sheet
- Bank Account
- Bank Statement
- Bad Debt
- Bar Code
- Batch
- BI See Business Intelligence
- Bill of Lading
- Bill of Materials
- BOM See Bill on Materials
- Bond
- Bondholder
- Branch
- Budget
- Burden See Overhead
- Business Intelligence
- Canada Pension Plan
- Cash Basis
- Cash on Delivery
- Check
- COD See Cash on Delivery
- Contract Payment Reporting System
- CPP See Canada Pension Plan
- CPRS See Contract Payment Reporting System
- Credit
- CRM See Customer Relationship Marketing
- Customer
- Customer Relationship Marketing
- Cycle Counting
- Data Table
- Debit
- Debit Card
- Department
- Deposit
- Depreciation
- Direct Deposit
- Discount Date
- Donor
- Drill Down
- Drop Ship
- Due Date
- Economic Order Quantity
- EDI See Electronic Data Interchange
- EBIT
- EBITDA
- EI See Employment Insurance
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Employee
- Employment Insurance
- Enterprise
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- EOQ See Economic Order Quantity
- Equity
- ERP See Enterprise Resource Planning
- Estimate
- Extensible Markup Language
- FIFO See First In First Out
- Financial Statements
- Finished Goods
- First In First Out
- Fiscal Year
- Fixed Asset
- FOB See Free on Board
- Free on Board
- FTE See Full Time Equivalent
- Full Time Equivalent
- GAAP
- General Index of Financial Information
- GIC See Guaranteed Investment Certificate
- GIFI See General Index of Financial Information
- GST
- Guaranteed Investment Certificate
- Haz Mat See Hazardous Materials
- Holdback See Retainage
- HR See Human Resources
- Human Resources
- Income Statement
- IFRS
- Interest
- Invoice
- Invoice Date
- ISO 9000
- Job
- Key See Data Table
- Last In First Out
- Liability
- LIFO See Last In First Out
- Maintain
- Master Production Schedule
- Module
- Module Administrator
- Month End See Fiscal Year
- MPN Manufacturer's Part Number
- MPS See Master Production Schedule
- MSRP - Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
- Mutual Fund
- NAICS See North American Industry Classification System
- North American Industry Classification System
- National Account
- National Account
- NMFC See National Motor Freight Classification
- Outstanding
- Overdue
- Overhead
- Overtime
- Packing Slip
- Parameter
- Parts
- Password
- Petty Cash
- Physical Count
- Postal Code
- Production Period
- Progress Payment
- Provincial Sales Tax
- PST See Provincial Sales Tax
- Purchase Order
- Quarter
- Quotation
- Raw Materials
- Receiving
- Record of Employment
- Request for Proposal
- Request for Quotation
- Requisition
- Retainage
- Return Material Authorization
- RFP See Request for Proposal
- RFQ See Request for Quotation
- RMA See Return Material Authorization
- ROE See Record of Employment
- Routing
- Sales Order
- Sarbanes - Oxley
- Seniority
- Service Charge
- Share
- Shareholder
- Shipping
- Ship Via
- Source Code
- SRM See Supplier Relationship Marketing
- SIN See Social Insurance Number
- SKU See Stockkeeping Unit
- Social Insurance Number
- Social Security Number
- SOX See Sarbanes - Oxley
- SSN See Social Security Number
- Supplier
- Supplier Relationship Marketing
- Supply Chain
- Systems Administrator
- T-4
- Terms
- Traveler
- Unit of Measure
- Universal Product Code
- UDF See User Defined Field
- UOM See Unit of Measure
- UPC See Universal Product Code
- Unallocated Cash
- Union
- User
- User Defined Field
- Vendor See Supplier
- WCB See Workman's Compensation Board
- Work Order
- Workman's Compensation Board
- Write off
- XML See Extensible Markup Language
- Year End See Fiscal Year
- YTD - Year-To-Date
- Zip Code