There are different types of abbreviations used in the textile & garments sector. We can't identify them all the time. As a textile & garments manufacturing professional, everyone should have a clear idea about those important abbreviations.
As its importance, in this article has shown 200 plus most used abbreviations with their full forms. These important abbreviations will help especially for job seekers, and textile & garments manufacturing professionals.
Textile & Garments Related Abbreviations
A
⇛ AAMA ⇼ American Apparels Manufacturing Association
⇛ AAMC ⇼ American Apparel Manufacturing Corporation
⇛ AAQC ⇼ American Apparels Quality control
⇛ AGM ⇼ Assistant general manager
⇛ AQL ⇼ Acceptable Quality Level
⇛ AQM ⇼ Assistant Quality Manager
⇛ ASQC ⇼ American Society for Quality Control
B
⇛ BAF ⇼ Bunker Adjustment Factor
⇛ BATEXPO ⇼ Bangladesh Textile Exposition
⇛ BCCFA ⇼ Bangladesh Custom Clearing & Forwarding Agent
⇛ BCI ⇼ Bangladesh Commerce & Investment
⇛ BEPZA ⇼ Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority
⇛ BGMEA ⇼ Bangladesh Garments Manufacture’s and Exporter’s Association
⇛ BJCP ⇼ Bangladesh Jute Cultivation Program
⇛ BJEC ⇼ Bangladesh Jute Export Corporation
⇛ BJMA ⇼ Bangladesh Jute Mills Association
⇛ BJMC ⇼ Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation
⇛ BKMEA ⇼ Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacture’s and Exporter’s Association
⇛ BL ⇼ Bill of Lading
⇛ BOM ⇼ Bill of Material
⇛ BS ⇼ Bill of Sale
⇛ BS ⇼ British Standard
⇛ BSCI ⇼ Business Social Compliance Initiative
⇛ BTMA ⇼ Bangladesh Textile Mills Association
⇛ BTMC ⇼ Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation
C
⇛ CAD ⇼ Computer Aided Design
⇛ CAM ⇼ Computer Aided Manufacturing
⇛ CAP ⇼ Corrective Action Plan
⇛ CBA ⇼ Collective Bargaining Agent
⇛ CBI ⇼ Center Back Line
⇛ CBM ⇼ Cubic Meter
⇛ CEO ⇼ Chief executive officer
⇛ CF ⇼ Cubic Feet
⇛ CFI ⇼ Center Front Line
⇛ CFO ⇼ Chief financial officer
⇛ CI ⇼ Commercial Invoice
⇛ CIF ⇼ Cost Insurance and Freight
⇛ CIP ⇼ Commercially Important Person
⇛ CM ⇼ Cost of Making/Cut and Make/ Cost of Manufacturing
⇛ CMT ⇼ Cost of Making with Trimmings/Cut, Make & Trim
⇛ CnF ⇼ Cost and Freight
⇛ CO ⇼ Certificate of Origin
⇛ COC ⇼ Code of Conduct
⇛ COD ⇼ Cash on Delivery
⇛ COO ⇼ Chief operating officer/ Chief Operations Officer
⇛ CPM ⇼ Cost per minute
⇛ CPSIA ⇼ Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
⇛ CRD ⇼ Cargo Receive Date
⇛ CT ⇼ Cycle Time
⇛ CTL ⇼ Consumer Testing Laboratories
⇛ C-TPAT ⇼ Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism
⇛ CWO ⇼ Cash with Order
D
⇛ D ⇼ Artificial Day Light
⇛ DDP ⇼ Delivered Duty Paid
⇛ DGM ⇼ Deputy General Manager
⇛ DHU ⇼ Defects per Hundred Unit
⇛ DMAIC ⇼ Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control
⇛ DMD ⇼ Deputy managing director
⇛ DOP ⇼ Director of Operations
⇛ DPR ⇼ Daily production report
⇛ DTM ⇼ Dyed to Match
E
⇛ ED ⇼ Executive director
⇛ EDI ⇼ Electronic Data Interchange
⇛ EDT ⇼ Estimated Delivery Time
⇛ EMB ⇼ Embroidery
⇛ EMS ⇼ Environment management system
⇛ EPB ⇼ Export Promotion Bureau
⇛ EPI ⇼ Ends Per Inch
⇛ EPZ ⇼ Export Processing Zone
⇛ ERP ⇼ Enterprise Resource Planning
⇛ ETA ⇼ Estimated Time of Arrival
⇛ ETD ⇼ Estimated Time of Departure
⇛ ETI ⇼ Ethical Treading Initiative
⇛ ETP ⇼ Effluent Treatment Plant
F
⇛ FA ⇼ Final Audit
⇛ FBCCI ⇼ Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries
⇛ FDI ⇼ Foreign Direct Investment
⇛ FI ⇼ Final Inspection
⇛ FIFO ⇼ First In First Out
⇛ FM ⇼ Factory Manager
⇛ FOA ⇼ Free on Air
⇛ FOB ⇼ Free on Board/Freight on Board
⇛ FPT ⇼ Fabrics performance test
⇛ FQA ⇼ Final Quality Audit
⇛ FT ⇼ Free Trade
⇛ FTC ⇼ Federal Trade Commission
G
⇛ GAT ⇼ General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
⇛ GCR ⇼ Garments Check Report
⇛ GDP ⇼ Gross Domestic product
⇛ GLM ⇼ Grams per linear meter
⇛ GM ⇼ General Manager
⇛ GMT ⇼ Garments
⇛ GNP ⇼ Gross National Product
⇛ GOTS ⇼ Global Organic Textile Standard
⇛ GPQ ⇼ Guideline for Production and Quality
⇛ GPT ⇼ Garments Performance Test
⇛ GSD ⇼ General Sewing Data
⇛ GSM ⇼ Grams Per Square Meter
⇛ GSP ⇼ Generalized System of Preference
⇛ GW ⇼ Gross Weight
H
⇛ HOM ⇼ Head of manufacturing
⇛ HOO ⇼ Head of Operations
⇛ HOP ⇼ Head of production
⇛ HQ ⇼ High Cubic Feet
⇛ HR ⇼ Human Resource
⇛ HRM ⇼ Human Resource Management
I
⇛ IC ⇼ Inspection Certificate
⇛ ICB ⇼ Investment Corporation of Bangladesh
⇛ ICC ⇼ International Chamber of Commerce
⇛ IE ⇼ Industrial Engineering
⇛ IESD ⇼ Industrial Engineering sewing data
⇛ ILO ⇼ International Labor Organization
⇛ IM ⇼ Import Procedure
⇛ IMS ⇼ Industrial Management System/ Service
⇛ IPC ⇼ In-Process Check
⇛ IPE ⇼ Industrial and production engineering
⇛ ISO ⇼ International Organization for Standardization
J
⇛ JS ⇼ Japan Industries Standard
K
⇛ KPI ⇼ Key Performance Indicator
L
⇛ L/C ⇼ Letter of Credit
⇛ LCA ⇼ Letter of Credit Authorization
⇛ LDC ⇼ Least Developed Country
⇛ LG ⇼ Letter of guarantee
⇛ LIFO ⇼ Last In First Out
⇛ LT ⇼ Lead Time
M
⇛ MD ⇼ Managing director
⇛ MDI ⇼ Managing for Daily Improvement
⇛ MIS ⇼ Management Information System
⇛ MMT ⇼ Measurement
⇛ MOQ ⇼ Minimum Order Quantity
⇛ MOU ⇼ Memorandum of Understanding
⇛ MP ⇼ Man Power
⇛ MTD ⇼ Month to Date
⇛ MTM ⇼ Measures Time in Terms
N
⇛ NGC ⇼ New Generation Computing
⇛ NOC ⇼ No Objection Certificate
⇛ NPT ⇼ Non Productive Time
⇛ NSA ⇼ No Seam Allowance
O
⇛ OB ⇼ Operation bulletin/ Breakdown
⇛ OEE ⇼ Overall Equipment Effectiveness
⇛ OQL ⇼ Outgoing Quality Level/ Observed Quality Level
⇛ OZ ⇼ Ounces
P
⇛ P/C ⇼ Polyester + Cotton
⇛ PC ⇼ Production coordinator
⇛ PCD ⇼ Planned Cut Date
⇛ PD ⇼ Production director
⇛ PDCA ⇼ Plan, Do, Check, Act
⇛ PDM ⇼ Production Details Manual
⇛ PI ⇼ Proforma Invoice
⇛ PM ⇼ Production Manager
⇛ POD ⇼ Port of Discharge
⇛ POL ⇼ Port of Lading
⇛ POM ⇼ Point of measurement
⇛ PO ⇼ Production Order/Purchase Order
⇛ PPC ⇼ Production Planning and control
⇛ PPE ⇼ Personal Protective Equipment
⇛ PPI ⇼ Picks Per Inch
⇛ PPM ⇼ Pre ⇼ production meeting
⇛ PP ⇼ Pre Production
⇛ PQI ⇼ Practice quality improvement/ Performance and Quality Improvement
⇛ PS ⇼ Production Sample
⇛ PSI ⇼ Pre ⇼ shipment Inspection
⇛ QC ⇼ Quality controller
⇛ QC ⇼ Quality Control
⇛ QI ⇼ Quality Inspector
⇛ QIP ⇼ Quality Improvement Plan
⇛ QMS ⇼ Quality Management System
⇛ QWL ⇼ Quality of Work Use
R
⇛ RCS ⇼ Recycled Claim Standard
⇛ RFD ⇼ Ready for Dyeing
⇛ RFID ⇼ Radio ⇼ frequency identification
⇛ RFT ⇼ Right First Time
⇛ RH ⇼ Relative Humidity
⇛ RMG ⇼ Ready Made Garments
⇛ RPM ⇼ Revolution per Minute
⇛ RQS ⇼ Requirement for quality system
⇛ RSL ⇼ Restricted Substances List
S
⇛ SAM ⇼ Standard Allowed Minute
⇛ SCM ⇼ Supply Chain Management
⇛ SKU ⇼ Stock Keeping Unit
⇛ SMV ⇼ Standard Minute Value
⇛ SOP ⇼ Standard Operating Procedure
⇛ SPC ⇼ Statistical process control
⇛ SPI ⇼ Stitch Per Inch
⇛ SPL ⇼ Stitch per length
⇛ SPM ⇼ Stitches per Minute
⇛ SPT ⇼ Stitch per tack
⇛ SQC ⇼ Statistical Quality Control
⇛ SQL ⇼ Submitted Quality Level
⇛ SRL ⇼ Sensory and Consumer Research
⇛ STP ⇼ Sewage Treatment Plants
T
⇛ TA ⇼ Time Action
⇛ TAP ⇼ Total Acceptable Product
⇛ TBA ⇼ To be announced
⇛ TBC ⇼ To be confirmed or to be continued
⇛ TBD ⇼ To be discussed/ defined/ decided
⇛ T/C ⇼ Tetron + Cotton
⇛ TIN ⇼ Tax Identification Number
⇛ TLS ⇼ Traffic Light system
⇛ TMUS ⇼ Time measurement units
⇛ TNA ⇼ Time and Action Plan
⇛ TPM ⇼ Total Productive Maintenance
⇛ TQM ⇼ Total Quality Management
⇛ TRL ⇼ Technology Readiness Level
U
⇛ UD ⇼ Utilization Declaration
⇛ UNITC ⇼ United Nations International Trade Center
⇛ UPC ⇼ Universal Product Code
V
⇛ VMS ⇼ Visual Management System
⇛ VPR ⇼ Vendor performance Record
⇛ VPP ⇼ Value Payable Post
⇛ VSM ⇼ Value stream mapping
W
⇛ WAS ⇼ Weekly Audit Schedule
⇛ WBS ⇼ Work Breakdown Structure
⇛ WFTUS ⇼ World Federation of Trade Unions
⇛ WH ⇼ Working Hour
⇛ WRAP ⇼ World Wide Responsible Apparels Product
⇛ WTO ⇼ World Trade Organization
⇛ WTP ⇼ Water Treatment Plant
X
⇛ XL ⇼ Extra Large
Important Abbreviations of Bangladesh
Y
⇛ YTD ⇼ Year to Date
⇛ YY ⇼ Yardage Yield
Z
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