APO

Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO)

BAPI

Business Application Programming Interface

BSA

Business Service Architecture (type of software architecture particularly suitable for business models)

CAQ

Computer-Aided Quality Assurance

DNC

Distributed Numerical Control, Direct Numerical Control

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange (standardized method of exchanging data between businesses)

EDP

Electronic Data Processing

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ESA

Enterprise Solution/System Architecture

ESA

Enterprise Service Architecture (type of software architecture particularly suitable for business models)

FDA

Food and Drug Administration

GAMP

Good Automation Manufacturing Process

IDOC

Intermediate Document (special data format in the SAP environment)

JDBC

Java Database Connectivity (database access method for the Java programming language)

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

MDC

Machine Data Collection

MES

Manufacturing Execution System

MIS

Management Information System

MM

Materials Management

ODBC

Open Database Connectivity (standardized database access method under Microsoft Windows)

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding

OLTP

Online Transaction Processing (procedure for real-time data access; opposite of data warehouse)

OPC

OLE for Process Control (Windows-based interface for data exchange between two systems)

OPC

OLE Process Communication

PDA

Production Data Acquisition

PI-PCS

SAP-interface for Process Control Systems

PM

SAP Maintenance

PP

SAP Production Planning

PP-PDC

Plant Data Collection

PP-POI

Production Optimizing Interface

PPS

Production Planning and control System

QA

Quality Assurance

QM-IDI

Inspection Data Interface

RFC

Remote Function Call (interface for data exchange between two systems)

RFI

Radio Frequency Identification

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

ROI

Return On Investment

SAP GUI

SAP Graphical User Interface

SAP-HR

SAP personnel management

SAP-QM

SAP Quality Management

SQL

Structured Query Language (query language...