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EAN Glossary
An EAN (International Article Number, originally European Article Number) is the 13-digit product identifier behind the barcode: globally unique, issued through GS1, and assigned per variation — every size, colour, or pack count gets its own number.
EBC (Enhanced Brand Content) Glossary
EBC (Enhanced Brand Content) — today known in Seller Central simply as A+ Content — is the richer product-description system available to brand-registered sellers: image-and-text modules, comparison charts, brand storytelling, and structured layouts replacing the plain…
ECDD (Estimated Cargo Delivery Date) Glossary
ECDD (Estimated Cargo Delivery Date) is the projected arrival date for goods in transit — an inbound shipment, a vendor delivery, or a direct import container.
EDD (Estimated Delivery Date) Glossary
EDD (Estimated Delivery Date) is the arrival promise shown to the customer — on the product page, at checkout, and in order history.
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Glossary
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is the structured, machine-to-machine language businesses use to exchange documents: purchase orders, order confirmations, invoices, shipment notices, inventory feeds. No emails, no portals, no retyping — your system speaks directly to Amazon’s.
EDIFACT Glossary
EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) is the United Nations’ international EDI standard — the message dictionary that defines how purchase orders, invoices, and shipping documents are structured when systems in different countries and…
EFN (European Fulfilment Network) Glossary
EFN (European Fulfilment Network) lets a seller store inventory in one Amazon European fulfilment country and fulfil orders across other European marketplaces from that single pool.
EOD (End of Day) Glossary
EOD (End of Day) is the daily cutoff that ends the operational cycle: the time by which orders must be processed, packed, and handed to the carrier to count as that day’s work.
EOM (End of Month) Glossary
EOM (End of Month) is the monthly close — the natural checkpoint when the account’s numbers stop moving and get read: sales and performance review, inventory audit, invoicing, payment reconciliation, and the budget reset for the coming month.
EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) Glossary
EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) is the hardware-software system that records sales, processes payments, and tracks stock wherever transactions happen in person — shops, counters, market stalls. It’s the retail brain: every scan updates a ledger of what sold, when, and for how much.
EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) Glossary
EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) is the environmental-compliance regime that makes manufacturers, importers, and brand owners legally responsible for the end-of-life side of their products — recycling, packaging recovery, and waste management.
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Glossary
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is the single system where a company’s operating truth aggregates: inventory, orders, purchasing, finances, manufacturing, and fulfilment, connected so a sale in any channel updates stock and books automatically.
EVM (Enterprise Value Multiple) Glossary
EVM (Enterprise Value Multiple) is the multiplier applied to a business’s annualized earnings — EBITDA or seller’s discretionary earnings, depending on the deal — to arrive at its acquisition value.
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