Glossary of terms

3PL Third-party logistics

4GE Fourth-generation environment

4GL Fourth-generation language

ABC Activity-based costing

AI Artificial intelligence

ALM Asset life cycle management

AMR Advanced manufacturing research

ANSI American National Standards Institute

API Application programing interface

APS Advanced planning and scheduling

ARIS Architecture of integrated information systems

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASP Application service provider

ATP Available to promise

ATS Available to sell

B2B Business to business

B2C Business to customer

BMT Business modeling tools or business modeling techniques

BOE Bill of equipment

BOL Bill of lading

BOM Bill of material

BPM Business process management

BPR

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