- Batch / lot (Charge / Los)
- A quantity of goods produced under the same conditions. It carries traceability in both directions.
- Best-before date (MHD)
- German abbreviation for Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum. It is on the label and comes from the system, not from a pen.
- HACCP
- Hazard analysis and critical control points, the own-check system under Art. 5 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004.
- Order picking (Kommissionierung)
- Putting an order together from the warehouse. The scan posts, the person picks.
- Yield
- The ratio of saleable goods to raw goods after processing. It decides the margin per line item.
- Break between systems
- Every point where a number is typed from one system into the next. Each one costs time and produces errors.
- Scale protocol
- The interface through which an industrial scale passes its weight to a system, without reading and typing it.
- ZPL
- Printer language for label printers. The label is generated from the system data, not from a template filled in by hand.