Glossary

Overview

Definitions of the warehouse terms used across O2M.

Terms

• AWB: air waybill, the courier's tracking number.
• Available: units free to sell; what channels are fed from.
• Backorder: units an order is owed that no warehouse could supply yet.
• Bin: a numbered place on a shelf. Units in no bin are unassigned.
• Cycle count: counting part of the warehouse regularly instead of all at once.
• Debit note: your document for goods returned to a supplier.
• Dispatch-by: the time an order must leave the warehouse.
• FEFO: first expired, first out.
• GRN: goods receipt note, the record of goods received.
• Held for orders: units promised to an order still in the warehouse.
• Lot: a batch of an item with its own manufacturing and expiry dates.
• Manifest: the list of parcels handed to one courier.
• On hand: all units physically in a warehouse, in any state.
• Putaway: placing received units into bins.
• Requisition: an internal request to buy goods.
• RTO: return to origin, a parcel that came back undelivered.
• RTV: return to vendor.
• SSCC: Serial Shipping Container Code, a GS1 number for a carton or pallet.
• Stock ledger: the list of every stock change.
• Three-way match: checking a supplier invoice against its purchase order and goods receipt.