Manufacturing operations glossary

An internal request to buy material or services. It records what is needed, how much, for which department, by when and with what priority. It is not sent to suppliers.

In mosaicOne: PRs move through Draft, Submitted, Approved, Changes requested or Rejected, and each line tracks whether an enquiry was sent, a PO was raised and material was received.

An enquiry sent to one or more suppliers asking for price, lead time and terms for specific material before an order is placed.

The commercial document sent to a supplier that commits the company to buy specified material at agreed price, quantity, delivery and tax terms.

In mosaicOne: PO lines are raised against approved PR lines, and each PO is approved before delivery batches open for receiving.

A promised quantity and date for part of a PO line. A 1,000 kg order delivered as 600 kg now and 400 kg next month has two delivery batches.

In mosaicOne: Delivery batches are created when a PO is approved and are what the receiving dock posts goods receipts against.

A control where the person who creates a document is not the person who approves it, reducing errors and unauthorised purchases.

The Goods and Services Tax Identification Number of a registered business in India. Whether the supplier and buyer are in the same state decides whether a purchase is treated as intra-state or inter-state supply for GST.

The record created when material physically arrives at the factory, capturing what was received, how much, against which order and under which batch number.

A difference between what was promised and what arrived: a short delivery (less), an excess delivery (more) or an overdue delivery (late).

In mosaicOne: Over, short and overdue receipts wait for a manager decision before they can move to quality inspection.

A quantity of material produced or received together and identified by one batch number, so that it can be tracked and, if needed, isolated as a group.

A physical quantity of material handled as one unit in stores. In many factories "lot" and "batch" are used interchangeably for incoming raw material.

A specific storage position inside a warehouse — for example rack A, level 3, position 2 — so material can be found without searching.

The usability of a stock quantity: available, reserved, rejected, damaged or consumed. Two lots of the same material can have very different statuses.

Moving material out of stores to a production job, department or machine, reducing store stock and recording where it went.

In mosaicOne: Material issue to production is part of the production module in development.

Checking received material against specification before it is accepted into usable stock.

An inspection outcome where part of a received lot meets specification and is accepted, while the rest is rejected. Both quantities are recorded.

A temporary status that keeps material out of use until a decision is made — for example while waiting for a test report or supplier clarification.

A formal record that material or a process did not meet requirements, describing the deviation and the decision taken.

In mosaicOne: NCRs are on the quality roadmap.

The actions taken to fix the cause of a non-conformance and to prevent it recurring.

In mosaicOne: CAPA is on the quality roadmap.

The ability to follow a batch backwards to its supplier, order, receipt and inspection, and forwards to where it was stored and used.

A widely supported linear barcode format that can encode letters and numbers, making it suitable for batch numbers on stickers read by handheld scanners.

A two-dimensional code that can hold a web address or text and be read by any phone camera, useful for opening a lot’s record from the shop floor.

The full parent–child history of material through production: which raw material batches went into which work-in-progress and finished goods batches.

In mosaicOne: Genealogy through production is part of the trace roadmap. Raw material batch traceability is available today.

The list of materials and quantities needed to make one unit of a product.

Calculating what material is needed, how much and when, from planned production, the BOM, current stock and open orders.

An instruction to make a specified quantity of a product, used to reserve material, issue it to the shop floor and record output.

Material that has left stores and entered production but is not yet finished goods.