Sawluz Computer

A

• AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) - group that defines EDI Standards for the car industry.
• ANSI (American National Standards Institute) – group that defines US national standards.
• ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice) - Notice to clients informing when and which products will arrive. It is in the XML format or an EDI-standard transaction.
• Automation - – It is related to the system and process automation, making them independent of the repetitive, manual operation by the human being.

B

• Bill of Lading - Document issued by the Carrier based on the Receipt data which informs the freight value and goes along with cargo. The recipient signs the document in one of the copies.
• BPF - Manufacturing Good Practices.
• Business Intelligence) - method that aims to help companies to make informed decisions, through data and information obtained by several information systems. BI is a technology that allows companies to lead data stored in their information systems into qualitative information which is important for decision making.

C

• Certificate Authority (CA) - department/company that issues/renews digital certificate.
• Cloud Computing – see Outsourcing.
• CNAE - Economic Activities National Classification.
• CT-e – Electronic Cargo Bill of Lading.
• CRM - Customer Relationship Management or Marketing One to One.

D

• DANFE - Electronic Receipt Auxiliary Document.
• DPEC - Contingency Issuance Previous Declaration.
• Data Mining - Data Mining.
• Data Warehouse - Data Warehouse.
• Distribution - It is the logistics segment responsible for transporting goods in a capillary way, for each client or point of sale.

E

• e-CNPJ - It is an electronic document that ensures authenticity and integrity of the communication between corporations and the Brazilian Internal Revenue System.
• ECD - Digital Accounting Bookkeeping, Accounting SPED’s module.
• EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) - – It is the technology used by business partners for transmission (sending and receipt) of electronic documents based on a standard format (example: shipment notice, delivery schedule, orders, electronic receipt, among others). A company is considered to be EDI-compliant if it is able to send and receive EDI-based documents in the several ways as demanded by its partners.
• EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport) – – EDI international standard created by the United Nations.
• ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning.

F

• FS - Security Form./li>
• FS-DA - Form for Electronic Tax Document Auxiliary Document Printing.

G

• Guideline – Set of layouts of a specific EDI project.

H

• HSM (Hardware Security Module) - – It is a cryptographic equipment able to store digital signature keys in a safe and inviolable way.

I

• ICP-Brasil - Brazilian Public Keys Infrastructure.
• ISO - International Standards Organization.
• Intermodal Transportation - it is the service integration of more than one transportation mode with issuance of independent documents, where each carrier takes responsibility for its transportation.
• IT - Information Technology.

J

• Just-in-Time or JIT - – It is about serving the internal or external customer in the exact time of its needs, with the necessary amounts for operation/production, thus avoiding to keep larger inventories.

K

• Kanban - Japanese method with cards, allowing for smaller inventories, production flow optimization, loss reduction, and flexibility increase.

L

• Layout/Leiaute - Document/file model with parameters to be followed.
• Logistics - It is about all storage and movement activities, easing goods to flow from the raw material purchase to the end consumer.
• Logistical Operator - Company focused on moving, storing, transporting, processing orders and controlling inventories among other activities. It provides its services through trained professionals.

M

• Milk Run - It is searching for products straight to the vendors, in a scheduled way, to meet supply needs.
• MMOG/LE (Materials Management Operations Guideline/Logistics Evaluation) – Tool used for some companies in the car industry to evaluate its vendors as for their logistic performance.
• MRP - Material Requirements Planning.
• MRP II - Manufacturing Resources Planning.
• MRP III - It is MRP II along with Kanban.
• Multimodal Transportation - it is the service integration of more than a transportation mode which are used so that a given cargo goes from the shipper to its recipient through several existing modals, and a single Bill of lading is issued by the single party which is responsible for transportation, the Multimodal Transportation Operator.

N

• NF-e – Electronic Invoice, to be legal the invoice must be in the State’s Finance Department format, and digitally certificated and authorized by this department.

O

• Outsourcing - Third party service vendors. Trend of buying or host offsite (of third parties) everything that is not within a company’s core business. The company may benefit from the service render resources and expertise and not investing in people, hardware or software.

P

Q

R

• RFB - Brazilian Internal Revenue System.
• RFID - Radiofrequency Identification Data.

S

• SCM - Supply Chain Management.
• SEFAZ – State Finance Department.
• Shipping - Company’s department that in hold of the Receipt or a pre-Receipt, identifies, separates, packs, weighs (if necessary) and load materials to the transportation vehicles.
• Shipping Area - Shipping Area.
• SINCO - Collection Integrated System, made available by the RFB. It is used to validate digital files to be delivered as per SRF Instruction #68 (12/27/1995) and SRF Instruction # 86 (10/22/2001).
• SOX - Sarbanes-Oxley is an USA Act effective from July 30, 2002, aiming specially public companies on NYSE or Nasdaq.
• SPED - Digital Bookkeeping Public System. There are Accounting and Tax SPED modules.
• Supply chain (Cadeia de Fornecimento) - Customer and vendor interaction which is necessary for producing goods and services. It includes planning, ordination, delivery/receipt, services, and distribution.
• Storage - It is the logistics segment responsible for temporary hold of goods in general (finished goods, raw materials, components, etc).
• Stakeholders - Individual or group that impacts or is impacted by the organization and/or the environment in which the individual or group operates.

T

• Tier 1 Supplier - A supplier which main responsibility is the production/assembly of subsystems or end product main components.
• Tier 2 Supplier - A Tier 1 supplier or a direct supplier of less critical components for the chain end product.

U

V

• VAN (Value Added Network) – Electronic information exchange service provider between business partners. Services provided by VAN include electronic mailbox for EDI transmission and EDI record keeping for audit trails.

W

• Web EDI - The ability of EDI transaction exchange with business partners through a web-based application (internet) with password-required access.

X

• X12 - A set of rules defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to be used on formatting and handling documents related to purchases that are transmitted through EDI.
• XML (Extensible Markup Language) - communication protocol. Global format for Web-structured documents or data. File format in which the Electronic Receipt is sent. XML and EDI combination provides a powerful data interexchange means between several organization types.

Y

Z