| Term | Definition | Product |
| Acceptance Criteria | Specifications on a deliverable that could withhold payment if not met. | Services Procurement |
| Access Management | aka rights management or identity management Granting authorized users the right to use a service, while preventing access to non-authorized users. | Contingent Staffing |
| Accrual | An accounting adjustment used to track and record earned revenues that haven’t been received or incurred expenses that haven’t been paid. | Services Procurement |
| Admin Cost Center | Usually, the cost center associated with the hiring manager. The admin cost center may be different from the bill to cost center. The admin cost center defaults in the Beeline platform based on the data received from the client. |
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| Agency Worker Regulations | AWR Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR) in the United Kingdom address discrimination against agency workers, low pay, and holiday and working time conditions. | Contingent Staffing |
| Allocation Code | aka Cost Allocation Code, Cost Allocation, Cost Center, Organizational Unit; the converged term is Allocation Code. A Beeline platform organizational hierarchy used to allocate objects (requests, assignments, projects) and spend to specific client cost centers and business units. |
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| Allowances | The amount paid to the supplier (talent) as part of their salary package, or the amount paid to offset the supplier’s out-of-pocket expenses incurred on behalf of the hiring company. | Contingent Staffing |
| Amendment | Any contractual information changed in an assignment, such as increases in pay, changes to dates, or workflow information. Changes to non-contractual information, such as location, CAC or manager name, don’t require an amendment and can be processed via an Edit. | Services Procurement |
| Anonymous | Not identified by name; of unknown name. | Services Procurement |
| API | Application Programming Interface (initialism) A software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Each time you use an app to send an instant message or check the weather on your phone, you’re using an API. | Services Procurement |
| API bot | aka chatbot API A chatbot usually functions as a universal gateway to an application programming interface (API) Help combine natural language processing (NLP) to build an efficient chatbot—they receive a request, extract the intent or meaning of the message, and deliver a response. A chatbot uses conversational interfaces to integrate with messaging apps to serve customers continuously. | Services Procurement |
| Approval | The ability for a user to accept or reject a workflow in the Beeline platform. | Services Procurement |
| Approval Category | A grouping of similar approvals. For example, a category called Request Approvals may contain all Request related approvals. |
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| ApprovalRule | Defines who must participate in an Approval Step (Approver or Notifier). Each Approval step usually has one Approval Rule and can reference a specific approver or a user role. |
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| ApprovalStep | An approval workflow may contain one or more phase that defines the approval process. A step can be a Notification, an Approve/Reject or any other Action type. |
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| Approver | The user who is the owner of the action or workflow step. There can be one or many approvers per step. |
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| Assessment | Used in Contingent Staffing for Assignment Assessment Questionnaires and in Services Procurements for Competitive Bid and Project Surveys. | Contingent Staffing Services Procurement |
| Assets | A resource with economic value owned or controlled by an individual, a corporation or a country with the expectation it will provide a future benefit. | Services Procurement |
| Assignment | An assignment is the result of a candidate placed on a job. Contract jobs a contingent worker is on for a limited period. Assignments have a definitive start and end date. Contract workers can be on multiple assignments in different statuses; for example, Active, Expired, Canceled. All activities for a contract worker are tracked on an assignment, including rate changes and financial management. IQN Vendor Management System (VMS): Often interchangeable with Work Order. An IQN system object that contains the specific details of a talent work agreement. In the legacy user interface, an assignment tracks non-contractual details, and a work order tracks the contractual components of a talent's work agreement. | Contingent Staffing Services Procurement |
| Assignment Assessment Questionnaire | AAQ A flexible solution MSPs and Client Admins can use to create customized questionnaires sent to the Hiring Manager, Project Manager, Supplier Manager, and/or Timesheet Approver on an assignment to assess their performance at defined intervals. | Contingent Staffing |
| Assignment Type | IQN Vendor Management System (VMS): A specific category for an assignment indicating whether the assignment is targeted, express, or based on a work order. | Client Onboarding |
| ATS | Applicant Tracking System A software application designed to help an enterprise recruit employees more efficiently. An ATS can be used to post job openings on a corporate website or job board, monitor resumes, and generate interview requests to potential candidates by email. |
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| Authentication | The method or action of verifying the identity of a user or process. Authentication verifies who a user claims to be. | Services Procurement |
| Authorization | A security mechanism that determines access levels or user/client privileges related to system resources including files, services, computer programs, data and application features. More formally, "to authorize" is to define an access policy. | Services Procurement |
| Authorization Management | The approach and practices applied to ensure users have the correct level of access to different applications, so they can perform their role while also maintaining the integrity of policies relating to security and data privacy. | Contingent Staffing |
| Automated Beeline Integration | Delta File. The client provides records that are New, Changed and Retired since the last file was generated/consumed. Beeline updates or adjusts only the records provided in that file. Full File. The client provides a flat file of all Active records. The file should include only Active records. Any active records existing in the Beeline platform that are excluded from the flat file are deactivated; the Deactivate Existing Records checkbox is selected/enabled. |
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| Automatic Rate Amendment | A programmed uplift/downshift or an adjustment to rate based on a given condition or conditions. | Contingent Staffing |
| Award | Selecting a supplier through the RFx process and converting the award to a statement of work. | Services Procurement |
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