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What Is an Inventory Issue Transaction?
An inventory issue is a negative ledger movement, stock going out when material is consumed or demand is satisfied from on-hand, with a running balance after.
What Is an Opening Balance in Inventory?
An opening balance is the on-hand quantity at the start of a projection horizon, the first entry a stock roll-forward carries into every later bucket.
What Is an Optimizer Sidecar in Scheduling?
An optimizer sidecar runs beside the standard scheduling engine, never inside it, so optimization improves plans without altering the battle-tested engine that produces them.
What Is an Upsert (Create-or-Update)?
An upsert creates a record if it does not exist and updates it if it does, matched by a business key. Learn how EDGEBIC decides create, update, or reuse on import.
What Is Availability in OEE? EDGEBIC Definition
Availability is the OEE factor for lost time: actual run hours over scheduled hours. See how EDGEBIC computes availability from shifts, instances, and actuals.
What Is Backlog in Capacity Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
Backlog is the forward sum of remaining hours a work center still owes. See how EDGEBIC's Resource Calendar burns a step down 24 to 16 to 8 to 0.
What Is Budget at Completion (BAC)? EDGEBIC Definition
Budget at Completion is the total planned work fixed when a job is scheduled. See how EDGEBIC uses BAC as the earned value baseline for SPI, CPI, and EAC.
What Is End-Item Lead Time in Scheduling?
End-item lead time is the delivery, cure, or ship tail after the last machine operation. It splits the item start date from the job end date and consumes no work-center capacity.
What Is Estimate at Completion (EAC)? EDGEBIC Definition
Estimate at Completion forecasts a job's final hours from its efficiency so far. See how EDGEBIC computes EAC from BAC, earned value, and the cost index.
What Is Factor-from-Base in Work Center Groups?
Factor-from-base means a machine's speed factor always applies to the original planned hours, never to last run's already-factored hours, so factors never compound across reschedules.
What Is Group Explosion in Scheduling?
Group explosion converts a machine-pool routing step into one nominal machine plus a candidate per member just before selection, so the core engine never sees a group.
What Is Password Hashing?
Password hashing stores a one-way fingerprint of a password instead of the password itself. Learn how EDGEBIC uses PBKDF2 with SHA-256 to protect sign-in credentials.