Pricefx Classic UI is no longer supported. It has been replaced by Pricefx Unity UI.

 

Common Abbreviations

When working with the Pricefx software or project teams, you may come across the following abbreviations and acronyms. 

Abbreviation

Meaning

Category

ACV

Annual Contract Value

Project lifecycle

AE

Account Executive

Project lifecycle

AI

Artificial Intelligence

Pricing Industry

AMAS

Adaptive Multi-Agent System

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BAFO

Best & final offer

Pricing Industry

BOM

Bill of Materials

Pricing Industry

BR

Business role

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C

Customer / Customer master

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CAIQ

Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire

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CE

Configuration Engineer

Project lifecycle

CF

Calculation flow

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CFS

Calculated Field Set

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CL

Calculation logic

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CPQ

Configure-Price-Quote (price lists)

Pricing Industry

CR

Change Request

Project lifecycle

CSA

Cloud Security Alliance

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CTT

Condition Type (formerly called Contract Term Type)

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CX

Customer Extensions

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DCR

Data Change Request

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DF

Data Feed

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DL

Data Load

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DM

Datamart

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DS

Data Source

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EAN

European Article Number is a barcode standard, a 12- or 13-digit product identification code. Each EAN uniquely identifies the product, manufacturer and its attributes.

Pricing Industry

EBITDA margin

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization

Pricing Industry

EH

Enhancement Request (previously Change Request)

Project lifecycle

ERP

Enterprise resource planning (in stock system)

Pricing Industry

ETL

Extract, transform, load – three database functions that are combined into one tool to pull data out of one database and place it into another database. Extract is the process of reading data from a database.

Pricing Industry

IE

Integration Engineer

Project lifecycle

ITIL

IT Infrastructure Library

Project lifecycle

LCE

Lead Configuration Engineer

Project lifecycle

LPG

Live Price Grid

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MPG

Material Pricing Group (way of grouping materials to which you want to apply the same conditions)

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MPL

Manual Price List

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MRO

Maitenance, Repair, Operations

Project lifecycle

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturers

Pricing Industry

P

Product / Product master

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PA

Analytics (formerly called PriceAnalyzer)

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PaaS

Platform-as-a-Service (infrastructure)

Pricing Industry

PAB

Platform Advisory Board

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PAR

Price Approval Request

Pricing Industry

PB

Price Setting (formerly called PriceBuilder)

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PL

Price List

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PM

Agreements & Promotions (formerly called PromotionManager)

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POC

Proof of Concept

Project lifecycle

PP

Company Parameter (formerly called Price Parameter)

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PR

Price Record

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PraaS

Pricing-as-a-Service

Project lifecycle

PREF

Preferences

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PS

Quoting (formerly called QuoteConfigurator and Price Shop)

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PUG

Product User Group

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PX

Product Extensions

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Q

Quote

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QA

Quality Assurance

Project lifecycle

QC

Quoting (formerly called QuoteConfigurator)

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QMS

Quality Management System

Pricing Industry

RBT

Rebate Type

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RM

Rebates (formerly called RebateManager)

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RRP

Recommended Retail Price

Pricing Industry

SA

Solution Architect

Project lifecycle

SaaS

Software-as-a-Service

Pricing Industry

SD

Solution Delivery

Project lifecycle

SIM

Pfx Particion for pricing simulations

Project lifecycle

SKU

Stock Keeping Unit is a product and service identification code for a store or product, often portrayed as a machine-readable bar code that helps track the item for inventory. A stock keeping unit (SKU) does not need to be assigned to physical products in inventory.

Pricing Industry

SOC1

System and Organization Control Report

Project lifecycle

SoW

Statement of Work

Project lifecycle

SPA

Sales & Purchase Agreement

Pricing Industry

Spot Quote, Spot Price

Includes rate for shipment that needs to be expedited immediately or urgently

Pricing Industry

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership (direct & indirect cost of a product segmentation)

Pricing Industry

TtV

Time to Value

Project lifecycle

UAT

User Acceptance Testing

Pricing Industry

UG

User group

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WF

Workflow

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WIP

Work in Progress

Pricing Industry

YTD

Year-to-date is a period, starting from the beginning of the current year (either the calendar year or fiscal year) and continuing up to the present day.

Pricing Industry

If you are a configuration engineer, you might be interested in the full list of Type Codes.

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