Glossary

Various terms we use throughout the system and their meaning.

Account

Our customers and our customers customers. Account allows you to build a hierarchy.

Bin location

Bin location in warehouse

Carrier

A corporation transporting goods

Channel

A corporation or website selling goods

Contact

A person or corporation, with name, address and contact details

Container

A physical packaging material, which can contain inventory items.

Customer

End customers

Contacts (default)

  • contact
  • billing contact

Additional contacts possible, for example:

  • ship to contact
  • ship notification contact

Hold

An item which is in exception state, several things can go on hold:

  • InventoryItem
  • Order
  • OrderLineItem
  • PickList

Holiday

One or more days or one part of a day where there is no business conducted.

InventoryItem

Individual items on inventory. For every item on inventory we create one inventory_item record. This include every single item in the case of bulk units. For example: ten individual pens would have 10 inventory item records

Adding ten pens to inventory would create ten exact same entries in the table (apart from the id of course). Removing ten pens from inventory would mark all ten items as retired

LicensePlate

Usually a printed label that refers to either a Container or an InventoryItem

Location

Warehouse locations

Order

Our main transaction for Boxture, must contain one or more order-lines

OrderLine

Belongs to an order, and stores ordered quantity one product only.

OrderLineItem

Belongs to an order-line and stores individual inventory items for an order-line.

Order types

Sales order

Order issued by an account to a customer

Transfer

Orders to transfer inventory from one location to another

PurchaseOrder

Orders to receive inventory from a vendor into a loction

PackingMaterial

Packing materials can be stored in inventory and are a type of packing material. We maintain levels for each packing material, the lower the level, the closer it is around the product.

PickList

A list of items to pick for one or more orders in the warehouse.

PickListLine

A picklist must contain one or more pick list lines. Each picklist-line contains one product to pick for at least quantity 1.

Product

Products we (possibly) keep inventory for and which are orderable.

ProductAlias

For some channels we keep aliases for the product, so as to have channels order their own product names

ProductCategory

We can possibly order products in categories

ProductComponent

Components are used for kitting. Some products can exist of other products. When you order a kit, the components are exploded on order line items.

ProductPackaging

This contains how a product should be packaged, optionally with exceptions per location.

Reason

Contains all reasons why items can go on hold.

ServiceType

Service types per carrier

Shipment

A shipment will be created upon packing an order, a shipment consists of one or more parcels.

Parcel

A parcel belongs to a shipment and can usually be tracked using it's own tracking-number

ParcelItem

An item in a parcel.

Shipping method

Shipping methods dictate how an order should be shipped, possibly referring to a service-type. One or more shipping methods can refer to the same service-type.

Tote

A tote is used when Picking and Packing. There can be multiple totes per order, but a tote can only contain one order. Tote

User

Users which will login to the system


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