Glossary
The Turkish term used in the interface is given in parentheses.
ABC analysis (ABC analizi): Splits products into three groups by value; A is the small number of most valuable products.
Confidence interval (güven aralığı): The range demand is expected to fall in with a given probability.
Consolidated (konsolide): The view that treats all warehouses as a single pool.
Coefficient of variation (değişim katsayısı): How much demand fluctuates; standard deviation ÷ mean.
Cycle quantity (çevrim miktarı): The quantity expected to be consumed between two orders.
Campaign uplift (kampanya artışı): The expected rate by which demand rises on campaign days. The baseline forecast does not change; in planning, demand on campaign days is multiplied by this rate. See Campaigns.
Cover period (kapsama süresi, order breakdown): The days from delivery to the next order.
Days of inventory (stok günü): How many days the current stock will last.
Dead stock (ölü stok): Stock that turns less than once a year or does not sell at all.
Economic order quantity, EOQ (ekonomik sipariş miktarı): The quantity that balances ordering cost against holding cost.
Excess stock (fazla stok): Stock above the target level.
Forecast horizon (tahmin ufku): How many periods ahead are forecast.
Forecast run (tahmin koşusu): The process in which forecasts, plans and alerts are calculated together.
Gross margin (brüt kâr): The difference between selling price and cost.
Holding cost (elde tutma maliyeti): The cost of keeping stock for a year: capital, storage, insurance, obsolescence.
Inventory turnover (stok devir hızı): How many times a year stock is replaced.
Lead time (tedarik süresi): The time from order to delivery.
Lost sales and backorder (kayıp satış, sonradan karşılanır): What happens to demand when stock runs out — see unmet demand.
Lot multiple (lot katı): The quantity an order must be a multiple of (for example units per case).
Minimum order quantity (minimum sipariş miktarı): The smallest order a supplier accepts.
Net demand (net talep): Sales minus returns.
Pending purchase order (bekleyen alış siparişi): The quantity ordered from a supplier but not yet received: ordered − received. Tracked on the Purchase Orders page.
Planning approval (planlama onayı): Approval of a transfer suggestion. Until it is carried out in the ERP (at most transfer time + 1 day) it counts as in transit at the destination and reserved at the source in the plan; it does not change stock or the ERP.
Reorder point (yeniden sipariş noktası): When stock falls to this level, an order is placed.
Return on inventory, GMROI (stok getirisi): The gross margin earned per year for each unit of currency invested in stock.
Optimal order plan, Wagner–Whitin (optimal sipariş planı): The order schedule with the lowest total cost over the planning horizon given the period demand forecast, ordering cost and holding cost; EOQ’s counterpart for seasonal demand.
Safety stock (emniyet stoğu): The buffer stock held against uncertainty.
Service level (servis seviyesi): The target for meeting demand from stock (for example 95%).
Short delivery, close short (eksik teslimat, eksik kapatma): Closing an order line the supplier will not complete. The remaining quantity is no longer expected; the close can be undone.
Stock position (stok pozisyonu): On hand + on order.
Suggestion compliance (öneri uyumu): The share of order and transfer suggestions carried out in the ERP before the next forecast run.
Target stock (hedef stok): The stock position you want to reach after ordering.
Tied-up cash (bağlı nakit): The cost value of the stock on hand; money that cannot be used elsewhere.
Transfer expected (transfer bekleniyor): Status showing that a transfer suggestion was deducted from the destination warehouse’s purchase suggestion; the purchase is the need remaining after the transfer.
Unmet demand (karşılanamayan talep): What happens to demand when stock runs out: lost sales (the customer buys elsewhere; retail) or backorder (the customer waits and is supplied when goods arrive; distribution). It affects the order quantity.
WAPE: Weighted absolute percentage error; the average amount by which the forecast misses the actual value.
XYZ analysis (XYZ analizi): Splits products into three groups by how regular their demand is; X is the most regular.
Base currency (Ana para birimi): The currency into which amounts are converted, totalled and displayed.
Break-even rate (Başabaş kuru): For a product bought in one currency and sold in another, the purchase rate at which the profit drops to zero.
Volatility (Oynaklık): How much the rate fluctuates; the standard deviation of daily changes scaled to a year.
FX difference in stock (Stoktaki kur farkı): The gap between the value of goods on hand at today’s rate and at the rate on the day they were received.