| Term | Meaning | Related page |
|---|---|---|
| Address book | Customer and supplier records, including addresses and contacts. | Address book |
| Available lot | Inventory lot that can be consumed, reserved, or shipped. | Inventory |
| Batch record | Production run record with recipe, inputs, actual usage, outputs, deviations, and signoffs. | Production |
| COA | Certificate of analysis tied to a supplier lot or ingredient lot. | Documents and QA |
| Component | Ingredient or packaging line in a recipe version. | Recipes |
| Document queue | Review surface for missing, uploaded, rejected, and retained documents. | Documents and QA |
| FEFO | First-expired, first-out. The oldest safe expiry should be used before later stock. | Inventory |
| Finished good | Sellable item produced or stocked for customer orders. | Orders |
| Internal lot | Batchlane lot code used inside the workspace, independent of supplier lot code. | Receiving |
| Movement | Ledger entry recording receive, consume, produce, ship, adjust, transfer, correct, return, or scrap. | Inventory |
| Output lot | Finished or WIP lot created by production signoff. | Production |
| Quarantine | Lot state or location used when stock exists but should not be consumed or shipped. | Inventory |
| Reservation | Quantity of a finished lot held for a sales order before shipment. | Orders |
| Shipment allocation | Connection between a customer shipment and one or more finished lots. | Orders |
| Trace backward | Start with a finished lot or shipment and identify inputs, recipe, production run, and supporting records. | Traceability |
| Trace forward | Start with an input lot and identify production runs, output lots, and customer shipments. | Traceability |
| WIP | Work in progress item or lot created before final finished goods. | Recipes |
Common abbreviations
- COA: certificate of analysis.
- FEFO: first-expired, first-out.
- QA: quality assurance.
- SKU: stock keeping unit.
- WIP: work in progress.
- QBO: QuickBooks Online.