APPLICATION NAME | PURPOSE |
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Assortment | Manages the list of assortments and their contents. |
Change Report |
Creates and emails a weekly report of changes on parts. Can also generate ad hoc reports. |
Class Report |
Small application that can generate report for use while classing a line. |
Class Map |
Primary application used to classify parts. |
DC Stocking Application |
This program provides graphical editing of the which lines are stocked at each DC. |
Display Parts |
Display part information for an individual part, allows some editing of part information. |
DOG |
Data Object Gatherer Gathers part information for a set of part numbers. uses excel sheet for data management |
FAIM Issue Tracker |
Tracks issues relating to Classification's Developers and/or data items in Classification. |
Letter Creator | Creates a skeleton of the weekly letter based on current bulletins in the transaction database. |
Line Editor | Manages descriptions and attributes for groups and lines. |
Log Viewer |
Displays historical and current part information. |
Month Review | Displays contents of monthly TAMS updates by part number. |
Part Change |
Allows for the creation of Price Change books to update prices, Group Code, Line Code, |
Group Code, Line Code, | Unit Designator, and item sizes for parts. |
PUP |
Part Update Program Allows for the creation of bulletins to update part attributes and announce new parts. Consists of Bulletin related data like = type of bulletin, its status, who is working on it/ownership, total no. of items affected, whats the status of it in each division. |
Part Viewer |
Display a customized set of part information for a selected part. |
Real Deal |
Matches pricing from Real Deal Promotions to future prices in Classification. |
Recipient | Contact List and controller for who receives the Change Report. |
Security Manager |
Provides the ability to manage user access to many programs in Classification. |
Sort | Generates sort numbers part numbers. |
Task Runner |
Central application for running several smaller maintenance tasks. |
Transaction Mover | Logs and Commits transactions from the transaction database. |
Vehicle Query | Provides registration data based on user set constraints. |
Vehicle Reporter | Creates registration reports for specified zip codes. |
Weekly | Create weekly files for updating the A&DP Centers. |
ELK |
Elusive Line Knowledge Has geographical mapping facility Stores overall inventory, sales view of all stores nation wide, good for research of why a product is not selling or selling. |
GORILLA |
Graphical orders/returns Including Long Lasting Analysis Presents Menu like -> orders/returns, tools (to enter multiple data and TAMS),j Shows reports particular to MICS/ Divisions(currently supports 10)and Rounds (R1, R2, R3, R4) uses SQL server |
LLAMA |
Line File Adjustment Master Administration Provides reports / master reports for all the divisions and rounds in pdf files Customer can change the base (A,B,C,D,W,WW,S,…), the status ,… here and save changes for the specific product. Has master systems data = ID and name for every product for which you can make the setting here. used for a default set up of a store uses MIC data internally |
PANDA |
Exhibits different views like = Vehicle, Store sales, Class, Line, Forecast.. |
MOOSE |
show Queue graphs and can add MICS and get details about these MICS like order/return quantity, sales potential, on hand stock, ..... |
MULE |
MUltiple Lookup Engine All small development items , random used items uncategorized ones mostly like images, store stocking, MIC data store mart, tools,....
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TAMS |
Total Automative Management System (used by the stores for checkout and inventory orders) zip codes are used here to research in which place a product is sold more and when for better business. |
ACRONYMS/ABBREVIATIONS | & common Business Verbiage |
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JDE |
JD EDWARDS |
RDC |
Rapid Development Center A location that operates like a large store but actually runs JDE which is the DC system. Normally this is a location that used to be a DC and is converted to an RDC. It still is considered to be a DC by MIC 3, but PANDA/Classification doesn’t consider it to be a DC and nothing does a good job of modeling it because applications weren’t designed to support it. |
CTA | Chicago Transit Authority |
PJ | Private JObber (Independant owner) |
COJ |
Company Owned Jobber |
MA |
Major Accounts |
TK | Tire Kingdom |
UAP |
United Auto Parts NAPA Canada |
Rounds=(meaning) |
750,000 products/parts are divided into 4 groups and rounds( – R1 R2 R3 R4) |
LInes=(meaning) |
PARTS GROUPED BASED ON THE DEPENDANCY AMONG EACH OTHER+THE MANUFACTURER FOR EX: AIR CONDITIONER , COMPRESSOR ARE RELATED THE LINES ARE USED TO SUGGEST WHICH PART CAN BE STOCKED |
Propensity |
Data generated from the DC's using IBM SPSS , which is further used by Applications like MIC
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ETL | Extract Transform and Load |