| AI |
Application
Identifier: two or more characters that indicate the meaning
and format of a data element in the UCC/EAN-128 symbology. It
defines uniquely the meaning and format of the data element. |
| ANSI |
American
National Standards Institute. |
| BIHP |
Bringing
Improvements in Healthcare Processes |
| CALS |
Continuous
Acquisition and Life Cycle Support |
| CAO |
Computer
Assisted Ordering |
| CEN/MITL |
European
Standards Committee/Multi Industry Transport Label |
| DPP |
Direct
Product Profitability |
| DTD |
Document
Type Definition |
| EAN/UCC-13
identification number |
The
EAN·UCC identification number comprising 13-digits. |
| EAN/UCC-13
standard numbering structure |
The
13-digit EAN·UCC standard numbering structure composed of an
EAN·UCC company prefix, item reference number
and check digit. |
| EAN/UCC-14
identification number |
The
EAN·UCC identification number comprising 14-digits. |
| EAN/UCC-14
standard numbering structure |
The
14-digit EAN·UCC standard numbering structure composed of an
indicator combined with the 12-digits of an EAN/UCC-13
or UCC-12 identification number and a check digit. |
| EAN/UCC-8
identification number |
The
EAN·UCC identification number comprising 8-digits. |
| EAN/UCC-8
prefix |
A
1, 2 or 3 digit index number co-administered by EAN International
and UCC denoting the area of distribution of trade
items identified by an EAN/UCC-8 identification number. |
| EAN/UCC-8
standard numbering structure |
The
8-digit EAN standard numbering structure composed of EAN/UCC-8
prefix, item reference number and check digit. |
| EAN-13
bar code symbol |
Bar
code symbol of the EAN/UPC symbology comprising 13-digits. |
| EAN-8
bar code symbol |
Bar
code symbol of the EAN/UPC symbology comprising 8-digits. |
| EANCOM® |
subset
of UN/EDIFACT (EDI) messages. EANCOM® messages are developed
to simplify the use of UN/EDIFACT messages |
| ECHOP |
European
E-Commerce for Hospital Procurement |
| ECR |
Efficient
Consumer Response |
| EDI |
Electronic
Data Catalogue: a common and useful definition for EDI is “the
transfer of structured data, by agreed message standards, from
one computer application to another by electronic means and
with a minimum of human intervention”. |
| Electronic
commerce |
The
conduct of business communications and management through electronic
methods, such as electronic data interchange and automated data
collection systems. |
| FIATA |
International
Federation of Freight Forwarders Association |
| FNC
1 |
Abbreviation
for Function 1 character A symbol control character
used to form the double start pattern of a UCC/EAN-128 bar code
symbol. It is also used to separate certain concatenated element
strings, dependent on their positioning in the bar code
symbol. |
| FPTP |
Fresh
Procude Traceability Project |
| GDAS |
Global
Data Alignment Service |
| GLN |
Global
Location Number: a 13-digit non-significant reference number
used to identify legal entities (e.g. registered companies),
functional entities (e.g. specific department within a legal
entity) or physical entities (e.g. a door of a warehouse) |
| GTIN |
Global
Trade Item Number :Shorthand term for the EAN·UCC Global Trade
Item Number. A GTIN may use the EAN/UCC-8, UCC-12, EAN/UCC-13
or EAN/UCC-14 standard numbering structure. |
| HTML |
HyperText
Markup Language |
| IATA |
International
Air Transport Association |
| IODP |
Inter-Operability
of Data Pools |
| ISO |
International
Standards Organisation |
| ITF |
“Interleaved
Two of Five” symbology |
| JIT |
Just
In Time |
| MSCP |
Meat
Supply Chain Project |
| MSCTF |
Meat
Supply Chain Task Force |
| NO |
Numbering
Organisation |
| NSN |
Nato
Stock Number |
| PLU |
Price
Look-Up |
| POS |
Point-of-sale.
Refers to the retail type checkout where EAN/UPC bar code symbols
are normally scanned. |
| PRICAT |
Price/sales
Catalogue |
| PSCP |
Packaging
Supply Chain Project |
| RSS |
Reduced
Space Symbology |
| SGML |
Standard
Generalized Markup Language |
| SMEs |
Small
& Medium Enterprises |
| SSCC |
Serial
Shipping Container Code The EAN·UCC number comprising 18 digits
for identifying uniquely a logistic unit (licence plate concept) |
| SWIFT |
Society
for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communication |
| Trade
item |
Any
item (product or service) upon which there is a need to retrieve
pre-defined information and that may be priced or ordered or
invoiced at any point in any supply chain. |
| UCC |
Uniform
Code Council The Numbering Organisation in the USA to administer
and manage the EAN·UCC system standards in the USA and Canada |
| UN/CEFACT |
United
Nations Centre for Facilitation of Procedures and Practices
for Administration, Commerce and Transport |
| UN/EDIFACT |
United
Nations/Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce
and Transport: comprises a set of internationally agreed standards,
directories and guidelines for the electronic interchange of
data. In other words, the communication language between computers.
It took shape within the United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe (UN/ECE) in the working Party for the Facilitation
of International Trade (WP.4) and was approved as ISO standard
9735 in 1988. |
| UPC-A
bar code symbol |
Bar
code symbol of the EAN/UPC symbology comprising 12-digits.
It differs from the EAN-13 symbol with regard to the human readable
printing of the contained number. |
| UPC-E
bar code symbol |
Bar
code symbol of the EAN/UPC symbology representing a UCC-12
identification number in 6 explicitly encoded digits. |
| UPC-E
option |
The
possibility to encode selected UCC-12 identification numbers
in a short bar code symbol. (See UPC-E bar code symbol.) |
| VAN |
Value
Added Network |
| XML |
eXtensible
Markup Language |
