| 3PL | Third-party logistics — a warehouse that stores goods for other companies (owners). |
| Adjustment | A correction to stock (found, lost, damaged), with a reason code. |
| Allocation | Reserving available stock for a sales order. |
| Approval | A second person's OK for a sensitive action. |
| ASN | Advance shipping notice — the list of what a supplier is sending. |
| Audit trail | The permanent record of who did what and when. |
| Backorder | The part of an order that could not be shipped yet. |
| Bin / location | An exact storage position, e.g. BULK-A01-B1-L1-P01. |
| BOM | Bill of materials — the components that make one kit or product. |
| Carrier | The transport company that delivers shipments. |
| Cross-dock | Goods go from receiving straight to shipping, without storage. |
| Cycle count | Counting a few bins regularly instead of the whole warehouse at once. |
| Dock appointment | A booked time slot for a truck at a dock door. |
| FEFO / FIFO | First-expired-first-out / first-in-first-out — which stock is picked first. |
| GRN | Goods received note — confirms received goods and books them into stock. |
| Kitting | Putting components together into a kit (a new SKU). |
| Load | A group of shipments on one truck. |
| LPN | License plate number — an ID for a pallet or carton. |
| Lot / batch | Goods produced together, tracked under one number. |
| Master data | The basic records everything else uses: warehouses, bins, items, partners. |
| Owner | The company that owns the stock. |
| Packing | Putting picked goods into cartons for shipping. |
| Pick face | A bin where pickers take goods from, kept full by replenishment. |
| Picking | Taking goods from bins for an order. |
| PO | Purchase order — what you ordered from a supplier. |
| Putaway | Moving received goods from the dock to a storage bin. |
| QA hold | Stock waiting for quality inspection before it can be used. |
| Reason code | Why something happened (damaged, lost, short …). |
| Receipt | The count of goods at the dock, before the GRN. |
| Replenishment | Refilling pick faces from bulk storage. |
| RMA | Return merchandise authorization — a customer return. |
| RTV | Return to vendor — sending goods back to the supplier. |
| Serial number | A unique number for a single unit. |
| Shipment | Goods that left the warehouse, with delivery note and tracking. |
| SKU | Stock keeping unit — an item code. |
| SO | Sales order — what a customer ordered. |
| Staging | An area where goods wait (after picking, before loading). |
| Stock ledger | The line-by-line history of every stock change. |
| Stock take | Counting the whole warehouse (or large areas) at once. |
| Tenant | Your company's private space in PrismaWMS (5-digit ID). |
| UOM | Unit of measure — each, case, pallet, kg … |
| VAS | Value-added services — labelling, kitting, repacking for a client. |
| Wave | A group of orders released to the floor together. |