Acronyms and Abbreviations

The following acronyms and abbreviations are used in this guide. 

Term	Definition
ANOVA	ANalysis Of VAriance
ARIMA	Auto Regression Integrated Moving Average
BOM	Bill of Materials
ACF and PACF	Auto-Correlation Function and Partial Auto-Correlation Function
DF	Degrees of Freedom
PO	Purchase Order
DME	Demand Management Engine
FG	Finished Goods
MAPE	Mean Absolute Percentage Error
DRP	Distribution Resource Planning
IDR	Intelligent Data Recognizer
WMAPE	Weighted Mean Absolute Percentage Error
AIC	Akaike information criterion
BIC	Bayesian information criterion
Ln	Natural logarithm