Glossary

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Glossary

The words that you meet in the portal, grouped by topic. Where the portal shows a word on screen, it is written in bold exactly as you see it. A warehouse can rename Order statuses, so your screen may show a different word for a status.

The portal and your account

Term	Meaning
3PL	Third-party logistics company: the warehouse that stores and ships goods for you. This documentation calls it "your warehouse".
Client Portal	The private website where you follow your stock, orders, Purchase orders and Invoices.
Client	Your company, as the warehouse has it in its records. Your user belongs to one client and sees only that client's data.
Access	What your user may see and do in the portal. Your warehouse sets it for each user. View only access lets you look. Administer access also lets you create or change.
Dashboard	The first page of the portal, with key figures, charts and recent activity.

Stock

Term	Meaning
SKU	Your own unique code for a product. It appears on every order and report.
UPC	The retail barcode number printed on the product.
Warehouse	A building or site of your 3PL where your stock is kept.
Zone	An area of a warehouse that groups bins.
Bin	A storage location in the warehouse, for example a shelf position. Stock sits in a bin directly or on an LPN that sits in the bin.
LPN	License plate number: the label on a pallet or carton. All the stock on that pallet or carton belongs to the LPN. The Bulk inventory report lists stock by LPN.
Lot	A batch of a product made or received together, identified by a lot number.
Serial	A serial number that identifies one single unit.
Expiry	The date after which a product should not be used or sold. Expired means the date has passed.
Packsize	A way a product is packed, such as a case of 12. The base pack, one single unit, is called Each.
Each	One single unit of a product.
UoM	Unit of measure: the unit in which a product is counted, for example Ea or Kg.
On hand	The quantity that is physically in the warehouse.
Allocated	The part of the quantity that is already reserved for orders.
Available	The quantity that is not reserved and can still be promised.
Short stock	A product whose on-hand quantity is at or below its minimum level.
Discontinued	A product that is no longer active. It is not shown in the product list.

Sales orders

Term	Meaning
Sales order	An outbound order: goods that the warehouse picks and ships to your customer. The list is called Sales orders.
Order number	The number that the system gives an order when you place it.
Pick ticket	The warehouse's own name for a sales order. Your warehouse may use it when you talk about an order.
Customer	The company or person that you send goods to.
Ship to	The address where the order is delivered.
Bill To	The name and address that the order is billed to.
Required date	The date by which you need the order shipped.
Cancel date	A date after which the order is no longer wanted.
Must Arrive date	The date by which the order must reach the customer.
Carrier	The transport company that delivers the order.
Service	The service level of the carrier, for example ground or express.
Draft	The order exists but your warehouse has not released it yet. Every order you place starts here.
Unallocated	The warehouse has released the order, but stock has not been reserved for it yet.
Ready To Pick	Stock is reserved and the order waits to be picked.
Being Picked	Picking has started.
Shipped	The order has left the warehouse.
Closed	The order is finished. Closed orders are in the list Closed Sales orders.
Suspended	The order is paused.
Stage card	One of the six boxes above the Sales orders list, such as Late or Ready to ship, with a live count. A click shows only the orders it counts.
Preview panel	The panel that opens on the right of a list when you click a row, with the order's steps, first lines and a button to open its page.
Any lot	The lot choice on an order line that lets the warehouse choose the lot, oldest expiry first. Every line starts on it.
Packing slip	The PDF that lists what was packed for an order. You can open it from the order's page once the order has been picked.

All the statuses are explained in Order statuses.

Purchase orders

Term	Meaning
Purchase order	An inbound order: you tell the warehouse what goods are arriving, so that the receiving team expects them. The list is called Purchase orders.
ASN	Advance shipping notice. Another name for a purchase order that you send to the warehouse before the goods arrive. In the portal you create one with New purchase order.
PO #	The number of a purchase order.
Vendor	The company that sends you the goods.
Destination	The warehouse where the goods will arrive.
Required date	The date when the goods are expected to arrive. The purchase order list shows it in the Required column.
Not Received	The warehouse has released the purchase order and nothing has been received yet.
Partially Received	Some of the goods have been received.
Received	Receiving is complete.
Outstanding	The units of a purchase order that have not arrived yet.
Receiving slip	The PDF that lists what the warehouse received for a purchase order. You can open it from the purchase order's page once something has been received.

Invoices

Term	Meaning
Invoice	The bill from your warehouse for storage and services. The list is called Invoices.
Posted invoice	An invoice that your warehouse has finalised. You see only posted Invoices. A draft invoice, which the warehouse is still preparing, is not shown.
From and To date	The first and last day of the period that the invoice covers.
Posted	The date when the invoice was posted.

Other words

Term	Meaning
Export	Writes a list to an Excel file.
Filters	Shows a row under the column headers where you can type a filter for each column.
View only	Access that lets you look but not change.
Administer	Access that lets you create or change things.

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