Acronyms

Acronym Meaning

ADC Americas Distribution Center (OH)

AIC Americas Innovation Center (NJ)

APAC Asia Pacific

AQL Acceptable Quality Level

ATS Available to Ship (from ADC)

BL Bottom Label

BOF Beauty on the Fly - products you buy on impulse

BOL Bill of Lading

BOM Bill of Material

BS Balance Sheet

CAPA Corrective and Preventitive Actions

CAPEX Capital Expense

CAR Form Capital Asset Request

CEP Continuous Estimate Planning

CFR CFR

CIP Clean in Place

CM Contract Manufacturer

CNY Chinese New Year

CofA Certificate of Analysis

COG Cost of Goods

COO Country of Origin

COPQ Cost of Poor Quality - cost impact for quality issues 

CPU Cost Per Unit - cost to handle each product

DTC Direct to Consumer

DTO Design Turn Over

E&O Excess & Obsolescence

ECG Early Code Generation

EHS&S Environmental, Health, Safety and Sust.

ELR Executive Launch Review

EMEA Europe, Middle East & Africa

EOD End of Day

EOW End of Week

EW East Windsor

EXO/EXOPs External Operations (procurement, planning, S&OP, Finance, NPC Quality)

F/A Fill & Assembly

FAN Formula Approval Notice

FDA Food & Drug Administration

FG Finished Good

FIFO First in, first out

FO Factory Overheads

GC Global Conformity check - making sure the ingredients can be used in each market

GIC Global Innovation Center (Japan Headquarters)

GL General Ledger

GM Global Marketing

HQ Head Quarters

IB Item Balance-Similar to a PIR, set up in MAPICS. Makes it PO ready.

IBP Integrated Business Planning (Holds affiliated forecast, external demand, planning functions)

INCI International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient

KPI Key Performance Indicator

LATAM Latin America

LE Limited Edition

LE0 Budget w/ year-end Jan.

LE1..LE3 Revised estimate of year-end forecast

Live Full FG Launch item (saleable)

LOI Letter of Intent 

LOTO Lock Out Tag Out

LSD Late Stage Decoration 

LTA Loss Time Accident 

LTIR Lost Time Incident Rate

MDR Material/Mass Destruction Request

MIM Material Information Management Group (SAP data management)

MO Machine order/Manufacturing order

MOQ Minimum Order Quantity

MRP Material Requirements Planning

MSP Material Supply Planning

NCP Non-conforming product

NPC New Product Commercialization

NPD New Product Development

NSL Non-Saleable (SAL good with Not For Sale sticker on UPC code)

NYO New York Office

OCD On Counter Date

OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness

OFC Over Flow Capacity

OOR Open Order Report

OTC Over the Counter Drug (sunscreen)

OTIF On time in Full

P&L Profit and Loss Statement 

PD Product Development

PDG Process Development Group

PDS Production Samples

PDS Pre-delivery Samples

PET Test Preservative Efficacy Test

PIR Purchase Info Record (Cost we load to S4)

PKG Packaging

Plan/Budget Full year estimate of P&L

PO Purchase Order

POSM Point of Sale Materials

POSM Point of Sale Merchandise - visual merchandising (testers, displays, etc)

PPS Pre-Production Samples

PS Pre-Series (product launch before live version)

PTI Product Technical Information

QA/QC Quality Assurance/Quality Control Department

QQs / QQIL Ingredient list from manufacturer that Regulatory uses to create package ready IL 

R&D Research & Development Department

RACI Chart - Who is Responsible / Accountable / Consultant / Informed

RFQ Request for Quote

RFT Right the First Time

RIR Recordable Incident Rate

RM Raw Material

S&OP Sales & Operations Planning

S/L Shade Label

SAC Shiseido Americas Corporation

SAFE Safety Awareness for Everyone 

SAI Shiseido America Inc. (East Windsor, NJ)

SAI - EW Shiseido America Inc. – East Windsor

SAL Saleable

SAP ERP system used by SAC, replaced JDE & MAPICS

SAY Shiseido And You

SF Success Factors

SFG Semi-Finished Good = used to described an item going into a Kit (often without an outer carton)

SG&A Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

SG&A Selling, General & Administrative Expenses

SOP Standard Operating Procedure

Specs Specifications

SPG Specific Gravity (kg/m3)

T&M Tooling and Molding 

TB Touch Base

TBC To Be Confirmed

TMR Talent Management & Review

TOA Token of Appreciation

TOA Token of Appreciation - product with actual bulk, non-saleable 

TR Test Request

TRA Travel Retail Asia

TST Tester

UC/FC Unit Carton/Folding Carton

VCM Vendor Compliance Manual

VLG Velvet Lip Glide

VM Visual Merchandise (displays)

VMI Vendor Management Inventory

WC Work Center (for SAI this means manufacturing line)

WIG Wildly Important Goal - part of continuous improvement process with lean* 

WIP Work in Progress = used to described an item going into a Kit (often without an outer carton)