AIAG 

Automotive Industry Action Group, North American automobile association (http://www.aiag.org/).

Avise 

Notification of forwarding agents (forwarding note) and customers (delivery note) regarding arriving shipments.

APQP 

APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) is equivalent to the German “Qualitätsvorausplanung” (QVP).
Advanced Product Quality Planning is the basis for potential error prevention and continuous improvement. The Advanced Product Quality Planning process covers the steps from development to batch production. It requires a multidisciplinary team, which covers all main departments, such as sales, development, production planning, production, purchasing and quality assurance. A plan that lays out the individual steps, the date of completion and the responsibilities for the required actions must be drawn up. Before an order is sent to a supplier, the producibility of the product or part must be verified. Without completion of the advanced product quality planning, the initial sample inspection reports are not valid and bulk approval is not possible. Standard parts (standard/catalog parts) can take exception to this. Normally, the advanced product quality planning is executed and checked for progress at regular intervals in cooperation with the multidisciplinary team of the supplier. The advanced product quality planning can lead to a quality agreement that defines and determines the most important criteria and how they are to be verified, evaluated and documented during volume production.

ASP - Application Service Provider 

An ASP is a company that, via Internet and for a fee, provides individuals and/or companies access to programs and applications that normally have to be installed onto individual computers as software licenses. This business model is especially beneficial for access to very specific applications that are used very infrequently.

Attachment  

A file that is attached to an e-mail and sent with it.

Backend Integration 

The objective of backend integration is to seamlessly link one software tool to an existing software solution. A backend integration may be applied, for example, to create a query via SupplyOn within another, “familiar,” application environment (such as the SAP R/3 purchase module). To achieve this, all relevant program information is exchanged between the applications through commonly defined interfaces and applications.

Bidding 

A function of the SupplyOn marketplace with suppliers make offers (or place bids) to concrete queries made by potential buyers over the course of hours or days.

Business Connector 

The Business Connector is an SAP product available by license to every company that has an SAP R/3 or mySAP license. The Business Connector allows the user to take document from an SAP R/3 or mySAP system (called IDOCs) and transfer it as an XML document to a recipient system via the secured Web protocol (https).
The Business Connector is the SAP standard for transferring documents such as order requests, orders and confirmations on the marketplace. The “mapping” of such documents, i.e. the conversion of the individual fields from SAP format to Web-based XML, is delivered by SAP for many common document types. The documents are secured in accordance with Internet standards by use of 128-bit encryption with a security certificate.
On the SupplyOn marketplace, the Business Connector also acts as a recipient for documents that have been sent. It takes over the function of an “XML document hub,” which forwards the documents that have been created by the sending systems.

Business Directory (Bus Directory) 

A list of companies on the SupplyOn marketplace where the businesses participating on the market are listed and where these businesses can present themselves and their goods and services in a structured manner.

Button 

On an Internet or other electronic page, a button is a seemingly raised surface area that can be clicked with the mouse cursor to send data to the program on the computer or on the server to enter information and get to ´lower` level pages or further information or functions.

Buyer Cockpit 

An information screen for the buyer. This allows the buyer to view all information about currently running or completed Bidding sessions or auctions. It is accessed by clicking the tabstrip ´MyBizTracker`.