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E-Retailing

E-tail

E-tailing

EAN

EAS Applicator

EAS Glossary
A special glossary of electronic article survelliance and source tagging terms from Sensormatic.

EAS Label

EAS Pedestal

EAS Tag

Electronic Article Survelliance

Electronic Commerce / E-Commerce
Buying and selling through the Internet. It can also describe electronic-based business transactions (e.g., the transmission of purchase orders or other documents between business partners, procurement, order entry, transaction processing, payment, inventory and fulfillment), and includes technologies like EDI. More...

E-Commerce Retailing

Economics Glossary

Electronic Data Integration
An inventory delivery system where retailers, manufacturers, and mills work together as partners. Also known as Quick Response.

Electronic Data Interchange / EDI
A system that enables retailers to integrate their purchasing activities with their stores and/or with vendors.

Electronic Funds Transfer / EFP
A system for making deposits and withdrawals electronically.

Electronic scanner
Equipment capable of "reading" barcodes.

End caps
The end pieces of display units.

EBPP
Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment, also known as digital billing and online bill paying.

EFR
Efficient Foodservice Response is a food industry effort to improve efficiencies in the foodservice supply chain that links manufacturing plants to distributions warehouses to operators tables.

ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning designed to improve shareholder and customer value by integrating manufacturing, financial and distribution functions to dynamically balance and optimize an enterprise's resources.

European Article Number

EVA
Economic Value Added is net operating profit minus an appropriate charge for the opportunity cost of all capital invested in an enterprise. EVA = Net Operating Profit After Taxes - (Capital X The Cost of Capital).

Exchange policy
Written rules to follow when merchandise is returned or exchanged for other merchandise.

Exchange
1. Merchandise returned to a store and swapped for comparable merchandise. The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another.
2. A business-to-business marketplace for buying or exchanging goods and services with other businesses. More...

Expenses
Costs of operating a business.