Visual Retail Plus - Point of Sale Users Manual - POS Software System

VRP Back Office Manual - Appendix A - Glossary
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Glossary
AP Accounts Payable
BO Back Office
CO Customer Order
CPU Central Processing Unit - occasionally used to refer to the computer case.
DSN Data Source Name
HUB Hub computer responsible for the centralized management of store infor
mation among multiple stores.
LAN Local Area Network
MDB File extension for Microsoft Access database files.
MOP Method of Payment
MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
ODBC Short for Open DataBase Connectivity, a standard database access method
developed by Microsoft Corporation.
O/H On Hand
OTB Open to Buy - Budgeting periods
PDC Portable Data Collector
PLU Price Lookup
PO Purchase Order
POS Point of Sale
PPU Partial Pick Up
QTY Quantity
RTV Return to Vendor
SKU Stock Keeping Unit (similar to UPC)
UPC Universal Product Code
WEDGE Keyboard Wedge - a device that is connected to the computer by means of
the keyboard port. Typically connected between the keyboard and the
CPU.
WYSIWYG Pronounced (Wizee Wig), this term is an acronym meaning "what you see
is what you get", originating from the first generation of word processing
software that was able to display on the screen the way a document would
look when printed.
XFER Common abbreviation for transfer.
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