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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Numbers
UCC: Uniform Code Council (now GS1-US)
 Ultra-high frequency tags: RFID tags that operate between 866MHz and 930MHz. These tags are able to send and receive data faster and at greater distances than tags using other frequencies (Source: GS1 US)
Unearned cash discount: The discount that is deducted after a bill is past due
UN/EDIFACT: United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administrators, Commerce, and Transport
Unit: The lowest identifiable amount of a drug, such as a tablet or capsule for solid dosage, or a milliliter for liquid forms
UPC: Universal product code – A generic term that refers to the GTIN-12, Coupon-12, RCN-12, or VMN-12 encoded in a UPC-A or UPC-E bar code symbol (Source: GS1 US)
Upcharge: The amount a distributor marks up a product when selling to a customer sometimes called a service fee
Usage rage: An estimate of the movement for a particular product
USP: United States Pharmacopeia
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VA: Department of Veterans Affairs
Validation: The use of compliance checks and reasonability checks to ensure that the attribute/process is syntactically, structurally, and logically correct (Source: GS1 US)
Vendor: Any individual, firm, or corporation from whom purchases are made (Source: GS1 US)
VFC: Vaccines for Children Program
VIPPS: Verified Internet Pharmacy Sites
VMI: Vendor managed inventory – A means of optimizing supply chain performance in which the manufacturer is responsible for maintaining the supplier’s inventory levels. The manufacturer has access to the supplier’s inventory data and is responsible for generating purchase orders (Source: GS1 US)
Verification: The process of establishing that information provided by a source (such as a manufacturer, distributor, or broker) meets the specific needs of a recipient for use in the data synchronization process (Source: GS1 US)
Voids: An area of high reflectance in an area of a bar code symbol, which is intended to be of low reflectance (Source: GS1 US)
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Wavelength: A measure of distance between the beginning and end, two corresponding points, or a complete cycle in a wave. For verifiers or scanners, this is the unit, measured in nanometers, for the light energy emitted by the device’s light source. This is one of two conditions affecting the parameter calculations needed to create a formal ISO-15416 symbol grade (Source: GS1 US)
WAC: Wholesale acquisition cost – The published price the distributor pays to the manufacturer for a product
Write range: The distance between a RFID reader and a RFID tag over which data writing operations can be reliably performed (Source: GS1 US)
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X-dimension: The specified width of the narrow element in a bar code symbol (Source: GS1 US)
XML document: A data object made up of virtual storage units called entities, which contain either parsed or unparsed data. Parsed data is made up of characters, some of which form the character data in the document, and some of which form markup. Markup encodes a description of storage layout and logical structure (Source: GS1 US)
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YTD: Year to Date
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Zero suppression: The process of removing (suppressing) zeros from a GTIN-12 that begins with a zero or zeros in order to reduce its length, enabling it to be carried by a UPC-E Symbol (Source: GS1 US)
Zone pricing: A method of research in which suggested retail prices for products are obtained over a local or regional competition area, allowing a pharmacy to price competitively by product category
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2D Symbology: Bar code symbols designed to increase data capacity beyond linear bar code symbols while still being readable by optical means. Two categories of two-dimensional symbols exist: Multi-Row (or stacked) and Data Matrix. A Composite Component® is a stacked two-dimensional symbol and a Data Matrix symbol is a matrix two-dimensional symbol. (Source: GS1 US)
3PL Provider: Third Party Logistics Provider - Party providing logistics-related services, such as transportation management, supply provider chain management, warehousing, re-packing products, distribution and/or assembly. (Source: GS1 US)
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