Terminology

carrier

Anything that can carry items.

A carrier can be a pallet tote or box, but also just a label.

item

An article that is on stock.

location

A physically fixed location to store carriers or items.

A location is always is in exactly one zone.

article

An SKU.

This can be a CU (customer unit) or pack.

customer unit

The smallest possible article, by definition has no subpacks and a multiplier of one.

All stock and amounts in orders are in this size.

pack

An article with subpack set and often a multiplier of >1.

zone

A collection of locations.

Features such as “pick-to-light”, “fifo” and others are connected to it.

order picker

A person that takes items from stock.

warehouse

A collection of zones.

property

Meta-data that can be configured to any table in the system.

order

A list of order lines, defined by a type.

Valid types are inspect, inbound, outbound, count, move.

order line

A line, belonging to an order, with mainly article-location-amount or carrier-location information.

Properties are often used on order lines to implement customer-specific functionality.

manco

When an order picker picks less than what is in the order line.

No stock change is done for the unpicked items.

flex

The term used to control the behaviour of the PocketApp.

This is controlled by flex-settings, which can be set in the flex.xml file.