Acronym

Term

Description/Definition

API

Application Programming Interface

 

ASN

Advance shipment Notification

File sent by warehouse (E.G. ERP) notifying regarding inventory stock that is shipped to store

BAN

Billing Account Number

 

BAR

Billing Arrangement ID

AR reference for a customer bill cycle

Bill Payment

Payment to the customer account

Payment is applied to the customer financial account (FA)

BR

Business Requirement

 

Card

Credit or Debit cards

Refer to both Credit and Debit cards 

Catalog Export Utility

 

POS utility to export changes in central location Inventory Catalog to other stores

Category Management

 

POS Utility to Manage Product Categories

CIM

 

CRM Customer Interaction Manager

Corporate Office

Site / location set as the top level.

This location is used for management of system level settings

CSR

Customer Service Representative

Store MT-POS/ /RIM Operator

DC

Document Center

document management system

DO

Delivery Order

Request for Inventory from Company Own Warehouse

EOD

End of Day

 

EPC

Enterprise Product Catalog

Enterprise Product Catalog

ESN

Electronic Serial Number

 

FAID

Financial Account ID

Customer financial account in External AR

ICCID

Serial Number

Integrated Circuit Card Identifier, another terminology for SIM

IDD

Interface Detailed Design

 

IMEI

International Mobile Equipment Identity

 

Item ID

Product primary key

MT-POS/MT-POS Product SKU

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

A storage standard for organizing databases to give quick access to data

M&P

Methods and Procedures

Manual process by user of the system. A rule of how to use the system properly that is not systematically enforced.

MDN

Mobile Directory Number

 

MEID

Mobile Equipment Identifier

 

MEID

Mobile Equipment Identifier

 

MSN

Mobile Service Number

 

MT

MicroTelecom

 

MT-POS

MicroTelecom Point of Sale

MicroTelecom Point of Sale

OGS

Ongoing Support

a main phase of the project lifecycle, which starts with the beginning of production

OPOS

OLE for Retail MT-POS 

Retail Device Standard

PD

Exclusive dealers

Premium/Exclusive Dealers (Non-corporate Stores, SER)

PO

Purchase Order

Purchase Order of inventory. PO is referred to as STO in MT-POS’s current solution for MT-POS stores and as DO for PD.

POS

Point Of Sale

 

QTY

Quantity

 

Regional Office

Site / location set as the top level in a market / region.

For example, London regional office will be below “Corporate Office” and above “London Retail Store #1”, “London Retail Store 2”.

Sale Rep

Customer Service Representative

Store MT-POS Operator

Security Point

 

POS Dynamic Security Access Point. Configured by assigning one or more fixed security roles.

SKU

Stock Keeping Unit

Same as Item ID

SLOC

Store Location

Store Location ID

SN

Serial Number

The Item Serial Number; for example, SIM, ESN, IMEI, MEID, ICCID

STO

Stock Transfer Order Slip

Equivalent to PO for Company-Owned Stores

Store ID

Location ID

MT-POS Store Location ID

UICC

Universal Integrated Circuit Card

 

UID

User ID

The Login ID of the CSR/User performing the transaction

WL

Whitelist

The WL Record the Item ID’s and serial numbers which are shipped to stores from ASN File interface. 

When receiving inventory in a PO, the system verifies the Item’s SN and quantity against the WL.