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What Is a Load Factor in Constraint Scheduling?
A load factor is one work center's demand hours for a job divided by the hours that work center can supply in a day. Learn how the ratio identifies the tightest resource.
What Is a Manual Cost Override on a Quote?
A manual cost override replaces the calculated cost basis on a quote without hiding the calculated split. See when to use it and why it beats fudging the price.
What Is a Minimum Allocation Threshold in Scheduling?
A minimum allocation threshold is the smallest booking a scheduler will write, stopping a plan from filling with second-long slivers of capacity. Learn why the floor exists.
What Is a Password Policy?
A password policy is the minimum standard every account password must meet. See EDGEBIC's default rule, where the hint appears, and how forced changes work.
What Is a Pending Schedule Change in Scheduling?
A pending schedule change is an edit staged on the scheduling board but not yet written. Learn why staging exists, what it protects, and why pending work lives only on one screen.
What Is a Prior Operations Safety Prompt in Scheduling?
A prior operations safety prompt fires when you log actuals on a step whose earlier steps have none. It offers to fill the gap from plan, or to send you back to log it properly.
What Is a Procured Item in Manufacturing?
A procured item is a product you buy rather than make. Learn how the procured flag separates purchased inputs from manufactured products, and why it has no routing.
What Is a Product Category in Manufacturing Software?
A product category is a named grouping on the product master that organizes the catalog for filtering and reporting. Learn what it controls and what it deliberately does not.
What Is a Quote Expiry Date?
A quote expiry date is the last day a quoted price and promise date are meant to stand. Learn why capacity movement makes an old simulation fiction, and what to re-run.
What Is a Reporting Window?
A reporting window is the from and to date range a report runs over. Learn why reports are point-in-time, what no data really means, and how defaults work.
What Is a Sales Order Reference Number?
A sales order reference number is the order's human-readable identifier, required on every order and unique per customer. See how the rules work.
What Is a Shift Priority Score in Scheduling?
A shift priority score ranks candidate shifts before the scheduler books any hours, weighting immediate availability first, then free capacity, then how early in the day the shift starts.