Vendor and customer naming conventions
Important:
- Vendor name searches are case sensitive, so please use all caps.
- No spaces or punctuation are used in the abbreviation.
- Two-letter postal abbreviations are used in states listed in vendor names.
- Please use abbreviations for directions (N, S, E, W, NE etc).
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Administration | ADMN |
| Academy | ACAD |
| Agriculture | AG |
| American | AMER |
| Associate(s) | ASSOC |
| Association | ASSN |
| Biology(ical) | BIO |
| Building | BLDG |
| Bureau | BUR |
| Center | CTR |
| Chemistry(ical) | CHEM |
| Columbia | COL |
| Commission | COMM |
| Company | CO |
| Cooperative | COOP |
| Corporation | CORP |
| County | CTY |
| Department(al) | DEPT |
| Development(al) | DEV |
| Diagnostic | DIAG |
| District | DIST |
| Division(al) | DIV |
| Economic | ECON |
| Education | EDUC |
| Elementary | ELEM |
| Employment | EMPL |
| Engineer(ing) | ENGR |
| Environment(al) | ENV |
| Equipment | EQUIP |
| Executive | EXEC |
| Extension | EXT |
| Federal/Federated | FED |
| Foundation | FNDTN |
| General | GEN |
| Government | GOVT |
| Hospital | HOSP |
| Incorporated | INC |
| Independent | INDEP |
| Information | INFO |
| Institute | INST |
| International | INTL |
| Kansas City | KC |
| Laboratory | LAB |
| Library | LIB |
| Limited | LTD |
| Litigation | LITI |
| Management | MGMT |
| Manufacturing | MFG |
| Marketing | MKTG |
| Medical | MED |
| Memorial | MEM |
| National | NATL |
| Nutritional | NUTR |
| Production | PROD |
| Professional | PRO |
| Protection | PROT |
| Psychiatry/Psychology | PSYCH |
| Publication/Publishing | PUB |
| Region(al) | REG |
| Rehabilitation | REHAB |
| Resource(s) | RES |
| Saint | ST |
| Saint Louis | STL |
| Science(s) | SCI |
| Secondary | SEC |
| Service(s) | SVC |
| Society | SOC |
| System(s) | SYS |
| State | ST |
| System(s) | SYS |
| Technical(ology) | TECH |
| United States | US |
| University | UNIV |
| Veteran’s Administration | VA |
| Veterinary(ian) | VET |
| Volunteer | VOL |