Industrial

Backflushing

Method for issuing (reducing on-hand quantities) materials to a manufacturing order.

Badge

An identification badge or just badge is a card made of PVC or other plastic material (PET/ABS/Polycarbonate) used for personal identification.

Barcode

Set of vertical bars that contain information. Each bar corresponds to a value or code which can be read by optical readers and transformed into messages or information.

Batch

Data processing methods used by the management system, including updating archives, printing documents, consulting archives etc. at fixed time and at variable time intervals (hourly, daily, weekly etc.)

Batch picking

Picking method which can be the fulfilment of a batch of complete orders or a batch of partial orders.

Batch Quantity

The number, volume or weight of products or parts of a batch.

Bay

Space between two uprights of racking within which one or more pallets can be allocated.

Bill of Lading

Transport document that certifies the entry of a given quantity of goods into a warehouse.

Bill of Materials

List of all the materials, that are necessary to manufacture an item with the relative quantities that are required.

Blank loading list

A loading list that doesn’t contain any specifications regarding the apparent order and condition of the goods to be transported (Hague Rules)

Blockchain

The blockchain is a complex, structured database which is organized according to the rules and dictates of peer-to-peer technology and is responsible for storing and tracking all the operations performed. The blockchain is widespread on the web and can be consulted by anyone who is a link in the chain.

BOM (Bill Of Materials)

List of all the parts, sub-assemblies and raw materials that make up a particular assembly, indicating the quantities required of each part.

Bonded warehouse

Free warehouse or customs-controlled warehouse, that operates on behalf of third parties and can be used to store a consignment of goods that are left as a guarantee by their owner in exchange for a bond, or alternatively goods that are awaiting delivery, but require the buyer to produce the necessary documentation.

Booking

Activity carried out by the management system aimed at booking: a space in the warehouse for the subsequent storage of a pallet; a pallet for subsequent handling or picking; a variable number of parcels for subsequent manual picking.

Break-Bulk

The separation of a consolidated�bulk load�into smaller individual shipments for delivery to the ultimate consignee on two or more smaller vehicles, as happens in a transit point.

Brick and click

Business model used by retailers that integrates the physical store with the e-commerce site.

Buffer Stock

A buffer of stock or in other words the quantity of raw materials, semi-finished or finished products that are kept in stock in case of shortages in supplies.

Bulk

Term used to describe unpackaged goods such as commodities (e.g., coal, wheat, Kaolin, petroleum etc.) which can be solid (dry-bulk) or liquid (liquid-bulk) in character.

Business to Business (B2B)

The various online business transactions between companies. Electronic Commerce that deals with transactions between companies and not those between a company and the final consumer (for example the dispatch, processing and fulfilment of orders between a manufacturer and its distributors).

Business to Consumer (B2C)

The various online commercial transactions between businesses and end consumers. Electronic Commerce that deals with the transactions between a company and its final consumers (for example the possibility to purchase consumer products from a “virtual supermarket”).