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How the platform actually works: scheduling, optimization, the shop floor and ERP data.
What Is a Warm Start in Production Scheduling?
A warm start feeds the current schedule into the optimizer as its starting point, so the solver improves a real working plan instead of searching from a blank calendar.
What Is Account Lockout?
Account lockout temporarily blocks sign-in after too many failed password attempts. Learn how EDGEBIC uses a 5-attempt, 15-minute default to slow brute-force guessing.
What Is an Effective Permission?
An effective permission is the final yes-or-no answer to what a user can do, after every role they hold is combined into one set. Learn how EDGEBIC computes it.
What Is an End Item in Manufacturing?
An end item is the finished product a manufacturing order produces, the root of its routing, distinct from the components and materials consumed to build it.
What Is an Import Entity Type?
An import entity type is the kind of record a mask loads: products, work centers, customers, routings, sales orders, or actuals. Learn how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Is an Import Row Status?
An import row status is the per-row outcome of a data load: Created, Updated, Reused, Skipped, or Failed. Learn what each means and how EDGEBIC reports them.
What Is an Inventory Adjustment?
An inventory adjustment is a manual ledger entry that corrects on-hand stock to match a physical count, posted as a signed delta with no linked order.
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.