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DLC Hearing Aid Accessory Naming – Standard Operating Procedures

1. All contracted Accessories shall use an Item Name that is 30 characters or less (including spaces).

2. Item Names shall use all CAPITAL letters and have a single space between each level of description.

3. Item Names shall not have any special characters (i.e. dashes, slashes, underscores, parentheses, ampersand, etc.)

4. Item Names shall use logical, industry-standard terms and abbreviations that are intuitive and as close to the commercially published name as possible.

5. If an item does not fall into a pre-defined abbreviation listed below, Vendors shall use a taxonomic naming convention that uses one of the following formats with a singular space between each level of description:

Product category / secondary description / tertiary description / quaternary description (if needed) / color (if needed) or Primary item type or name / Secondary category or further description / Size or further description / L or R designation / color

Example (for illustrative purposes only, not all items will have this many description categories):

L or R designation Color Size Battery Door Category

PIN BD 0.7MMX5.4MM L BRN

Single spaces

6. Longer names are encouraged when they provide intuitive clarification on what an item actually is.

7. The following abbreviation guidelines shall be used when assigning product category ROES abbreviations. If a category is not listed below, Vendors shall use a logical, industry-standard term or abbreviation that is intuitive and as close to the commercially published name as possible.