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	Pricefx modules and features
ATPCO	Airline Tariff Publishing Company
BAFO	Best & final offer	Pricing Industry
BOM	Bill of Materials	Pricing Industry
BR	Business role	Pricefx modules and features
C	Customer / Customer master	Pricefx modules and features
CAIQ	Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire	Pricefx modules and features
CE	Configuration Engineer	Project lifecycle
CF	Calculation flow	Pricefx modules and features
CFS	Calculated Field Set	Pricefx modules and features
CL	Calculation logic	Pricefx modules and features
CLIC	Calculable line item collection (refers to Quote/Agreement/Rebate detail in React)	Pricefx modules and features
CPQ	Configure-Price-Quote (price lists)	Pricing Industry
CR	Change Request	Project lifecycle
CSA	Cloud Security Alliance	Pricefx modules and features
CTT	Condition Type (formerly called Contract Term Type)	Pricefx modules and features
CX	Customer Extensions	Pricefx modules and features
DCR	Data Change Request	Pricefx modules and features
DF	Data Feed	Pricefx modules and features
DL	Data Load	Pricefx modules and features
DM	Datamart	Pricefx modules and features
DS	Data Source	Pricefx modules and features
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	Pricefx modules and features
MPG	Material Pricing Group (way of grouping materials to which you want to apply the same conditions)	Pricefx modules and features
MPL	Manual Price List	Pricefx modules and features
MRO	Maintenance, Repair, Operations	Project lifecycle
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturers	Pricing Industry
OX	Object Extension (parent of all extension classes, such PX or CX)	Pricefx modules and features
P	Product / Product master	Pricefx modules and features
PA	Analytics (formerly called PriceAnalyzer)	Pricefx modules and features
PaaS	Platform-as-a-Service (infrastructure)	Pricing Industry
PAB	Platform Advisory Board	Pricefx modules and features
PAR	Price Approval Request	Pricing Industry
PB	Price Setting (formerly called PriceBuilder)	Pricefx modules and features
PL	Price List	Pricefx modules and features
PM	Agreements & Promotions (formerly called PromotionManager)	Pricefx modules and features
POC	Proof of Concept	Project lifecycle
PP	Company Parameter (formerly called Price Parameter)	Pricefx modules and features
PR	Price Record	Pricefx modules and features
PraaS	Pricing-as-a-Service	Project lifecycle
PREF	Preferences	Pricefx modules and features
PS	Quoting (formerly called QuoteConfigurator and Price Shop)	Pricefx modules and features
PUG	Product User Group	Pricefx modules and features
PX	Product Extensions	Pricefx modules and features
Q	Quote	Pricefx modules and features
QA	Quality Assurance	Project lifecycle
QC	Quoting (formerly called QuoteConfigurator)	Pricefx modules and features
QMS	Quality Management System	Pricing Industry
RBT	Rebate Type	Pricefx modules and features
RM	Rebates (formerly called RebateManager)	Pricefx modules and features
RRP	Recommended Retail Price	Pricing Industry
SA	Solution Architect	Project lifecycle
SaaS	Software-as-a-Service	Pricing Industry
SD	Solution Delivery	Project lifecycle
SIM	Pricefx Partition 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	Pricefx modules and features
WF	Workflow	Pricefx modules and features
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.