Glossary
Every Carbon term, defined and linked: the manufacturing and accounting vocabulary the rest of the docs lean on.
Carbon names things precisely, and a few names are counterintuitive: a is a bill of materials, is a ledger balance rather than a table, and payment on an is a field, not its own record. This page lists every term used across Carbon, each with the same one-line definition that powers the inline popovers. Follow Learn more for the full story.
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The eight-disciplines quality method, modeled with the nonconformance workflow's tasks rather than hard-coded.
A
The Carbon user responsible for this supplier relationship; emails and reminders about this supplier route to them.
The Carbon user responsible for this customer relationship; emails and reminders about this customer route to them.
The statement bucket all accounts under this group will use.
Inherited from the group: where this account appears on financial statements.
A dated window postings fall into; its close status moves Open → Locked → Closed, and a closed period is frozen against new postings.
GL contra-asset account that accumulates depreciation booked against fixed assets.
Opening balance of depreciation already booked before this asset was added to Carbon (use 0 for new acquisitions).
GL contra-asset account credited as depreciation posts each period and debited in full when the asset is sold or scrapped.
GL account debited to clear accumulated depreciation when an asset is disposed.
Under Demand-Based Reorder, planning sums demand inside this rolling window when computing a replenishment quantity.
Total capitalized cost of the asset (purchase price plus freight, install, and other costs that become part of book value).
When on, this price override applies to matching orders; turning off without deleting preserves the history for audit.
A taxable surcharge (handling, setup, fuel) added to the line; rolls into the tax base.
Why stock is changing — Positive (found), Negative (lost/scrap), or Set (replace count with a measured value).
What the due-date countdown starts from (invoice date, end of month, etc.).
Whether Amount is interpreted as a percentage of the line price or as a fixed currency amount.
A scoped secret sent on the carbon-key request header that authenticates programmatic calls to Carbon, carrying its own permissions and rate limit rather than a user session's.
When on, pricing rules (volume discounts, promotions) still apply on top of this override; when off, this override is the final price.
Sign-offs that must be recorded before this issue can be closed; in addition to any required by the workflow.
The sign-offs every issue using this workflow needs before it can be closed.
Acceptable Quality Level — the highest defect rate that's still considered passable under the Z1.4 / ISO 2859-1 tables.
The fixed-asset record this sale disposes; the line's shipment posts the asset's net-book-value disposal entry rather than COGS.
GL account that carries an asset's original acquisition cost — debited when acquired and credited at full gross cost when it is disposed or sold.
GL account debited when a fixed asset is acquired (purchase or capitalized cost).
The category a fixed asset belongs to, carrying the GL accounts every asset of that kind posts to.
GL account credited to remove the asset's original cost when it is disposed.
When the kanban card is scanned, the job is automatically moved out of draft and released to the floor.
Skip the released-but-not-started state — the job starts immediately on scan.
B
Automatic, prorated consumption of a job's untracked materials when output is reported — tracked materials are issued manually.
Default GL account used for cash transactions when no specific bank account is selected.
Default cash account for transactions in non-base currencies.
Default cash account for transactions in your base currency.
The lot identifier for this stock; one row per batch, quantity is the on-hand for that lot.
The default run quantity when this part is made; planning rounds replenishment up to multiples of this.
A quantity of identical units shares one tracked entity and batch number — one entity, many units.
Called a method in Carbon — the components plus operations that produce a part.
First-year additional deduction taken before the regular MACRS schedule begins.
The Carbon user who owns this RFQ; supplier responses and reminders route to them.
C
Derive this item's shelf life from the shortest shelf life of its components, ignoring the Days field above.
A dated record proving a gauge was checked against a traceable standard; it passes unless a requires-action, -adjustment, or -repair flag is ticked, and resets the gauge's next-due date.
How often this gauge must be recalibrated; combined with Last Calibration Date to recompute Next Calibration Date automatically.
The GL account charges for this carrier post to (freight expense, freight in/out).
An engineering change: the affected items whose methods are revised on a draft and released together, superseding the versions they replace.
What kind of change this is: Version updates how the part is made, Revision revises its details and documents, Replacement Part swaps in a new part number that supersedes the old one, and New Part introduces a net-new part with no predecessor.
Top-level classification (asset / liability / equity / revenue / expense); set only on root groups, inherited by children.
Inherited from the group: top-level classification (asset, liability, equity, revenue, expense).
Inherited from the parent group.
A set of companies under one owner that share group-scoped configuration — the chart of accounts, currencies, and dimensions — so the same accounting setup spans every company in the group.
When on, scanning this process's operation barcode reports all remaining open quantity as complete in one action; turn off when operators routinely report partials.
The code printed on the kanban card that operators scan to mark the job complete; auto-generated when left blank.
This item is built via a configurator and resolves its components per-order; jobs created for it inherit the configurator's resolved BOM.
The immediate nonconformance task that quarantines affected stock or work before the root cause is known.
Converts a supplier's purchase unit to your inventory unit on a PO, receipt, or bill line — buy in cartons of 12, stock in eaches.
A nonconformance task that fixes a confirmed root cause — as opposed to a preventive or immediate containment action.
An accounting bucket that groups expenses by department or function so the GL can report spend by group, not just by account.
The inventory cost recognized when a shipment posts, valued by the item's costing method.
Expense GL account debited when inventory is shipped/issued against a sale.
How an item's unit cost is valued: Standard, Average, FIFO, or LIFO. Set per item.
Amount that increases liabilities/equity/revenue or decreases assets/expenses on this line.
A non-cash document that settles an invoice against a reason account: a credit lowers what's owed, a debit raises it.
GL account in the target company to credit for this intercompany transaction.
GL equity account (CTA reserve) that holds unrealized FX differences from re-translating foreign-currency balances at period-end; separate from realized FX gain/loss in P&L.
A company-defined extra field attached to a core table (customer, part, order); it shows on the record's form, saves alongside the built-in fields, and is queryable through the API.
The customer this portal link is provisioned for; only contacts on this customer can sign in through the link.
The customer record this portal account links to; only contacts already on that customer can be selected as the account holder below.
The specific contact on the selected customer who will own this portal account; their email becomes the sign-in identifier.
The identifier the customer uses for this part on their POs; Carbon resolves it to our internal Part ID on order import.
The customer's revision tag for their Part ID, when it differs from ours; pinned at the cross-reference level, not on our revision.
GL account where early-payment discounts given to customers are recorded.
The customer's own reference for this document — typically their RFQ or PO number on their system; surfaced on the printable output and carried forward into any document this one converts into.
The lifecycle state of this customer — Active, Prospect, Inactive, etc.; only Active customers appear in sales-order selectors.
The category this customer belongs to (OEM, distributor, end-user, internal); drives default pricing rules and GL accounts.
D
The kind of value this attribute accepts (text, number, date, boolean, list); locked after the attribute has any recorded values.
How strict the Due Date is — Hard Deadline blocks scheduling past it, Soft Deadline lets planning push out with a warning, No Deadline ignores it entirely.
Amount that increases assets/expenses or decreases liabilities/equity/revenue on this line.
GL account in the source company to debit for this intercompany transaction.
How many fractional digits to keep when rounding amounts in this currency.
A depreciation method that charges a fixed percentage of remaining book value each period — heavier early, lighter later.
How an item is sourced when added to a method or BOM line.
The permission set new employees of this type receive automatically; editing here changes the template for future hires only — existing employees keep what they have unless explicitly bulk-updated.
Where new stock of this item lands by default on receipt; per-line storage selections on a receipt override it.
The standard factor used to measure this process — hours, minutes, pieces, square feet — when its operations are estimated and costed.
The standard factor (hours, minutes, pieces) operations on this work center are measured in by default; per-operation overrides win when set.
Expense side of deferred tax movements (paired with deferred tax liability).
GL account for tax timing differences (e.g. accelerated tax depreciation vs. book depreciation).
When the goods actually arrived; recorded on the receipt and used for supplier on-time-delivery scoring.
Where goods on this PO are shipped to by default; per-line delivery locations on the PO override this for drop-ship and split-delivery scenarios.
Per-line override of the PO header's Delivery Location; used for split deliveries to multiple warehouses or drop-shipments.
Expected future demand for an item, bucketed by period, populated by the planning run alongside actual demand.
Expected future demand for a make part entered week by week before any sales order exists; planning nets it against supply and explodes the method to order components ahead.
Writing an asset's value down over its life — a monthly batch you create, review as a draft, then post.
Default GL expense account for periodic depreciation runs.
GL expense account debited each period when depreciation posts.
The schedule used to spread this asset's cost over its useful life (straight-line, declining balance, units of production).
Default method that pre-fills on new assets in this class (still editable per asset).
The date depreciation begins for this asset; usually the in-service date.
How many days after the calculation date the early-payment discount is still available.
The cash discount the customer can take if they pay within the discount window.
An operation's position in its work center's queue — the order the floor picks work up — set by reordering cards on the Work Centers board without changing any dates.
Retiring an asset from service by scrapping or sale, booking any gain or loss against net book value and setting its status to Disposed.
The date this asset is retired from service; depreciation stops on this date and remaining net book value is booked to the disposal account.
Whether this lot/serial passes inspection (Pass) or fails (Fail); a Fail blocks the stock from being received into available inventory.
The per-item outcome recorded on a non-conformance's affected material — Pending, Return to Supplier, Rework, Scrap, or Use As Is — decided for each affected lot or serial on its own.
The engineering drawing this inspection plan is tied to; inspections recorded against this part reference back to this drawing.
A shipment line sent straight from supplier to customer, bypassing your warehouse — set per line, not on the header.
When supplier responses are expected back; suppliers see this date on the RFQ portal and Carbon stops accepting late responses after it (configurable).
Due date of the earliest job in the bulk batch; later jobs space evenly between this date and Due Date of Last Job.
Due date of the final job in the bulk batch; combined with Due Date of First Job to space the jobs evenly.
How many days after the calculation date the full amount is due.
E
Users and groups allowed to rename, replace, or re-label this document; the uploader is always included, and edit access implies view access.
A company that sits at or above selected companies in the group hierarchy and receives their intercompany cancelling entries for consolidated reporting; it is never a party to the trade itself.
Switching the employee's type here doesn't change their existing permissions; the modal that follows asks whether to overwrite the current set with the new type's defaults.
The type controls which default permissions the new employee receives; selecting it here pre-fills the permission matrix from the type's template.
What source this dimension pulls its allowed values from (custom list or an existing entity like customer, location, employee).
Economic Operators Registration and Identification number; required for goods crossing customs borders in the EU / UK.
How long one execution of this schedule typically takes; scheduling blocks the work center for this many minutes on each scheduled instance.
The number of extra units to build to compensate for expected scrap; planning sums this with the order quantity when reserving materials.
What this time entry counts as — Labor (operator time), Machine (run time), or Setup (changeover time); each rolls up under a different rate.
Units of base currency per one unit of this currency; used to translate amounts on posting.
When the receiving location expects the stock to arrive; drives MRP availability at the destination.
When this specific lot/serial expires; drives FEFO picking and the shelf-life policy on consumption.
When the supplier's pricing stops being honored; converting this quote to a PO after this date may need re-quoting.
The date past which this quote's pricing is no longer honored; converting to an order after this date may require re-quoting.
When the customer's request stops being current; past this date the RFQ is auto-closed and won't accept quote responses unless re-opened.
The supplier's packing-slip or shipment number, recorded for audit; not used by any posting logic.
F
Picking offers tracked entities earliest-expiry-first, so the soonest-to-expire stock leaves first by default.
A completed job's output, received into inventory at the job's actual accumulated WIP cost.
GL account that holds the value of manufactured goods (Make items); debited on job completion, credited on shipment.
An accounting record for a capitalized item you depreciate rather than expense; Draft → Active → Fully Depreciated → Disposed.
The fixed-asset record this purchase capitalizes against; the line's receipt creates the asset entry rather than an inventory entry.
How often this maintenance recurs — Daily, Weekly, Monthly, On Cycle Count; Daily reveals the day-of-week selector, the others use simpler interval math.
The location this quote will fulfill from if it converts to an order; used by planning to project supply at the right warehouse.
The location this order will fulfill from; per-line locations override this when set.
Per-line override of the order header's fulfillment Location; used for split shipments and drop-ships.
G
Default GL account credited when a fixed-asset disposal results in a gain.
Non-operating income account credited when an asset in this class is sold for more than its net book value.
A measurement instrument (caliper, micrometer, pin gauge, CMM) tracked as a record and held to a recurring calibration schedule.
The parent-child chain of tracked entities — what a unit was built from and what it became.
The book of all posted journal lines, summed by account — written only when the company has accounting enabled.
The action that copies a saved method (its materials, operations, and work instructions) onto a job or quote line.
The expense account this indirect-spend line posts to; required because indirect lines don't have an item ledger entry to derive the account from.
A clearing account holding the value of goods received but not yet billed; the supplier invoice clears it.
Clearing account between goods receipt and supplier invoice; balances when both have posted.
The group account this account rolls up to; determines its type, class, and statement placement.
The users in this group; group-scoped permissions and notifications apply to each member, and users may belong to multiple groups (effective permissions are the union).
H
Optional fixed rate used when translating equity balances per IAS 21 (instead of the period rate).
The contractor's expected weekly availability; scheduling uses this as the upper bound when assigning this contractor to operations across the week.
I
Lot-based inspection of received goods against a sampling plan; the units post On Hold at receipt and only release to Available once the lot is dispositioned as accepted.
Inherited from the group: whether this account closes to retained earnings (income) or carries forward (balance).
Inherited from the parent group.
The Incoterm rule (FOB, DAP, EXW, CIF, …) that governs who pays freight, who bears risk, and where the transfer of title occurs on shipments from this supplier.
The Incoterm rule (FOB, DAP, EXW, CIF, …) that governs who pays freight, who bears risk, and where the transfer of title occurs on shipments to this customer.
GL expense account for non-inventory purchases (supplies, services).
Z1.4 inspection level (I / II / III); higher levels mean larger sample sizes for the same lot.
GL account for interest income or expense.
GL account hit when physical counts differ from system inventory.
A sales invoice (you bill a customer) or purchase invoice (a supplier bills you), settled by applying payments and credit or debit memos.
The legal entity to bill, when different from the customer who receives the goods — for parent / subsidiary or third-party billing arrangements.
The record that applies a payment or memo to an invoice, carrying the applied, discount, and write-off amounts.
The legal entity to bill, when different from the supplier who delivers the goods — for parent / subsidiary or factoring arrangements.
Consuming material from inventory into a job, which writes a Consumption entry to the item ledger.
A pre-written description inserted into every issue that uses this workflow; placeholders like {itemId} and {location} are substituted at creation.
The category of this issue (e.g. Customer Complaint, Audit Finding, Production Defect); drives which workflow template applies.
The accounting dimension that categorizes items for reporting and analysis.
The append-only record of every stock movement; on-hand is the sum of its signed entries and the source of truth.
J
Carbon's production order — one job builds a quantity of one item from its own copied method and routing.
The job whose operation this outside-processing line covers; the line's receipt closes the operation against this job.
A routing step on a released job, the job's own copy of an operation, carrying a status the floor drives from Todo through Done.
A posted accounting entry: a header plus balanced debit and credit lines against GL accounts.
K
A physical pull signal — a printed card or QR code living with the stock — that raises a purchase order or a job the moment it's scanned to refill a bin.
A Make to Order component whose parts are issued together into the parent job — no separate build.
L
GL account credited when labor or machine cost is absorbed into a production job.
GL account capturing differences between routing-expected and actual labor/machine time.
The hourly cost of operator labor on this work center; combined with logged labor hours to charge labor cost into a job's WIP.
When this gauge was last successfully calibrated; the next-calibration date recomputes from this value plus the interval.
Days from ordering a part to having it available; planning offsets demand backward by this much.
The number of days to build one batch of this item, measured from job release to completion; planning offsets demand backward by this much.
The number of days between placing a PO with the preferred supplier and the goods arriving on the dock; planning offsets demand backward by this much.
Total expected production units for units-of-production depreciation; cost is spread per unit produced.
The probability rating that the risk occurs (1 = rare to 5 = almost certain); paired with Severity to compute the risk score.
The work center's own bin where picked material is staged for production to draw down, as opposed to its warehouse source shelf.
The allowed values for a list-type attribute; users pick from these rather than free-typing.
The location this employee defaults to; drives timezone interpretation on their timecards and the default shift selectors on their job record.
Default GL account debited when a fixed-asset disposal results in a loss.
Non-operating expense account debited when an asset in this class is sold or scrapped below its net book value.
GL account capturing fixed-cost differences when actual lot size differs from planned.
M
The hourly cost of running the machinery on this work center; combined with logged machine hours to charge machine cost into a job's WIP.
The US tax depreciation system with IRS property-class tables, run as a separate tax schedule alongside the book schedule.
Mid-month / mid-quarter / half-year convention that determines the first-year deduction.
The IRS recovery-period class for this asset under MACRS (3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 27.5, 39-year).
Default GL expense account for equipment and facility maintenance.
The part is manufactured as its own job when the parent that needs it is built.
A gauge whose role is Master — the reference standard other gauges are calibrated against, rather than one used for routine checks.
An approval requirement on a non-conformance whose reviewers (seeded Engineering and Quality) must sign off before the issue can close.
GL account capturing differences between BOM-expected and actual material consumed.
Under Maximum Quantity policy, planning orders up to this on-hand level when the reorder point trips.
Planning's upper bound on a single suggested replenishment; quantities above this are split into multiple orders.
The traceable reference (e.g. NIST standard, master gauge serial) the calibration values were compared against.
Carbon's shop-floor app where operators run operations, report quantities, issue material, and log time against released jobs in real time.
Carbon's name for a bill of material and bill of process (routing): the components plus the operations that make a part.
How an item is sourced when added to a method or BOM line.
The lowest amount this supplier will charge for this process, regardless of quantity; jobs below the breakeven volume still cost at least this much.
The smallest quantity this supplier will accept on a PO line for this part; planning rounds up to it.
Planning's lower bound on a suggested replenishment quantity; distinct from a supplier's MOQ, which lives on the supplier-part record.
Carbon's planning run nets supply against demand and explodes methods, surfacing shortfalls — but it creates no orders itself.
N
An asset's acquisition cost minus accumulated depreciation — what it's still worth on the books, and the figure it's disposed at.
The corrected expiration for this lot/serial; existing on-hand stock is re-evaluated against shelf-life policy after the change.
When this gauge becomes due for calibration; once past due it reads Out-of-Calibration.
Why this line is being declined; surfaced on the printable quote and recorded for win-loss reporting.
A quality issue — a logged deviation or defect with a configurable workflow of investigation and action tasks.
A non-taxable surcharge (e.g. recoverable expenses like permit fees) added to the line; excluded from the tax base.
An alert that something needs a person's attention, fanned out from a carbon/notify event to the in-app inbox plus optional email and Slack, muteable per topic per user.
The per-company counter behind a document type's readable number, assembling the prefix, the zero-padded next value, and the suffix, and advancing as each document is created.
O
Whether this work blocks production (Down), degrades it (Impact), is on a planned downtime window (Planned), or has no production impact (No Impact); informs scheduling and customer-facing downtime communication.
A company that designs and builds its own finished products end to end (here, the shop building humanoid robots) rather than making parts to another company's specification.
One step in a job's routing, naming a process and a work center and carrying its own setup, labor, and machine times and rates.
The specific operation on the job above that this PO line is purchasing; only operations marked outside-processing are selectable.
Classifies a routing operation: Process, Assembly, and Inspection operations run on your own shop floor in the MES — Assembly gets the guided assembly view and Inspection a quality check — while an Outside Processing operation is subcontracted to a supplier and creates a purchase order; the process carries the same type and defaults it on new operations.
The thread linking a sales RFQ, its quote, and the resulting sales order — a join, not a document with its own status.
Order quantities must be whole multiples of this number (a multiple of 12 → 12, 24, 36 …).
Planning rounds suggested replenishment up to a whole multiple of this number.
An operation done by an outside supplier rather than an in-house work center, covered by a subcontracting purchase order.
GL account credited when manufacturing overhead is absorbed into a production job.
The hourly indirect-cost burden applied to this work center; the difference between labor + machine and the full quoting rate is what overhead absorbs.
GL account capturing differences between applied and actual manufacturing overhead.
The employee accountable for this cost center — when purchase order approvals are on, they're the approver for spend posted against it.
P
Another cost center this one rolls up into, letting you nest a sub-department under its parent for hierarchical cost reporting.
The department this one rolls up under for reporting and headcount hierarchies; leave empty for a top-level department.
Another storage unit this one nests inside (e.g. a bin within a rack); must be in the same location.
GL account credited when a supplier invoice is posted (AP balance).
A posted cash transaction — a Receipt from a customer or a Disbursement to a supplier — applied to invoices through settlements, moving Draft → Posted → Voided.
How many days from invoice date this supplier expects payment; drives the default due date on bills.
How many days from invoice date this customer is given to pay; drives the default due date on customer invoices.
The fraction of each lot to inspect; the actual count is computed from lot size at the time of inspection.
Finalizing a fiscal month through the Open → Locked → Closed lifecycle; a closed period is frozen and its balances snapshotted, reversible only by explicit reopen.
The default order picking uses to offer tracked entities: FEFO (earliest-expiry first), FIFO (oldest first), or LIFO (newest first).
A set of instructions to pull a job's outstanding materials from the warehouse and stage them lineside; a pick moves stock to the point of use rather than consuming it.
How the sample size is decided — Inspect All, Inspect First N, Percentage of Lot, or AQL (Z1.4 / ISO 2859-1). Each mode reveals its own parameter fields below.
Committing a receipt, shipment, or invoice: quantities move, journal entries hit the ledger, and status becomes Posted.
The date this intercompany transaction hits both companies' ledgers.
The date this entry hits the ledger; determines the accounting period it falls in.
The supplier planning suggests first when this item needs to be bought; other suppliers stay available in the dropdown on each PO line.
GL account used when a customer pays before an invoice is issued; cleared when the invoice posts.
A nonconformance task that stops the problem recurring elsewhere — distinct from the corrective fix and containment.
Quantity-based pricing tiers for this override; the unit price applied is the row with the largest minimum quantity that the order line satisfies.
A negotiated price pinned for a specific item — by customer, customer type, or all customers — that replaces the base price outright, optionally with quantity breaks.
A company-scoped Discount or Markup, by percentage or fixed amount, that adjusts a line's price up or down when the line matches the rule's quantity, date, item, and customer conditions.
Order rules are evaluated in — for discounts only the highest-priority match applies (no stacking); markups all apply and compound in priority order.
A reusable, versioned set of work instructions attached to a process, giving an operation its ordered steps to record and check plus the parameters it runs at.
The procedure technicians follow when this maintenance is performed; replacing it after schedules have already been generated only affects future instances.
Whether this process runs on internal work centers (Process, Assembly, or Inspection) or at outside suppliers (Outside Processing); reveals different downstream fields, changes how planning routes work for this process, and defaults the operation type on new operations.
The processes this work center can run; appears in process-pickers when scheduling operations, and limits which jobs can route through this work center.
A timed record of Setup, Labor, or Machine work logged against a job operation, whose duration rolls up into the operation's actual cost.
The residual WIP a job has left at close, swept to a Production Variance account — the only variance Carbon books for a job.
When the supplier committed to deliver; planning uses this date for the inbound-stock arrival projection.
When you committed to deliver; planning treats this as the demand-due-date for fulfillment.
When this specific line is promised to ship; per-line override of the order header's Promised Date for split shipments.
When on, attributes in this category show up on a person's public profile; otherwise they're visible to admins only.
The part is taken from existing stock when its parent is built — no new job or purchase order.
A firm order to a supplier; status moves through receive and invoice before Completed as goods and bills arrive.
What kind of PO this is — standard goods, services, outside-processing, or blanket agreement; drives the line layout and the GL posting rules.
The gap between a purchase order's price and the supplier's bill, posted to a variance account when the invoice posts.
GL account that captures the difference between standard cost and actual purchase cost.
GL account for purchase tax paid to suppliers (or reclaimable).
The material is purchased from a supplier for that specific order, rather than made or pulled from stock.
The unit suppliers price and ship this item in, when different from the inventory unit (e.g. case vs each).
The unit suppliers price and ship this item in, when different from the inventory unit (e.g. case vs each); paired with Conversion Factor.
Q
The quantity breakpoints this line is priced at; each column carries its own per-unit price for buyer–supplier negotiation and for converting to downstream documents.
How many units each individual job in the bulk batch builds; the last job's quantity may be smaller if Total Quantity doesn't divide evenly.
How many of this material it takes to build one of the job's parent item; multiplied by job quantity to size the consumption.
The quantity range over which this rule applies; orders outside the range fall through to the next rule.
What kind of output this entry records — Production (good units), Scrap (unrecoverable), or Rework (sent back for correction); reveals Scrap Reason when Scrap.
A priced sales quotation; Draft → Sent → Ordered, or ends Lost, Expired, or Cancelled.
The end-to-end commercial flow from quoting a customer to collecting payment: RFQ to quote to sales order, then shipment, invoice, and settled payment.
What kind of quote this is — standard supplier quote, blanket-agreement priced quote, or contract-manufacturing quote; drives the PO line layout when converted.
R
GL account that holds the value of purchased stock and components (Buy items); debited on receipt, credited on issue/shipment.
The human-readable document number (like J000001 or ECO-000001) minted from a sequence and stored on the record, distinct from its internal id.
The inbound posting document that takes goods into stock (from a PO, transfer, or job output) and creates any tracked entities.
When Carbon committed to having the goods arrive; combined with the shipping method's transit days, this drives Ship Date back-calc.
When the customer asked to receive the goods; the quote commits to this date if the customer accepts.
When the customer asked to receive the goods.
GL account debited when a customer invoice posts; cleared when the customer pays.
The location this RFQ would fulfill from if it converts to a quote and then an order.
The on-hand level that triggers a new replenishment order under the quantity-based policies.
Under Fixed Reorder Quantity, the exact quantity planning orders each time the reorder point trips.
How an item is replenished: Manual Reorder, Demand-Based Reorder, Fixed Reorder Quantity, or Maximum Quantity.
How an item is replenished overall (Buy, Make, or Buy and Make), set per item, unlike the per-line method type.
A company-defined tag axis attached to journal lines so the same accounts can be sliced by location, department, or any custom axis without multiplying the chart of accounts.
When the buyer asked for the goods; the supplier may promise something else on Promised Date and post something else again on Delivery Date.
When the customer asked for delivery; the order commits to Promised Date, which may differ.
Tasks that must be completed before this issue can be closed; selecting actions here adds them on top of whatever the workflow specifies.
The ordered list of tasks issues using this workflow must complete; the order here is the order they appear on the issue.
When the buyer needs this line's goods on the dock; planning uses this date for stock-availability and outside-processing scheduling.
Recorded that follow-up is needed after this calibration; surfaces this gauge on the open-actions queue.
Recorded that the gauge was adjusted during this calibration; affects how the calibration interval recalculates.
Recorded on a calibration that the gauge needs repair before its readings can be trusted.
The floor an asset depreciates down to; when net book value reaches it, the asset flips to Fully Depreciated.
GL equity account where net income closes at fiscal year-end.
GL account for tax accrued under reverse-charge rules where the buyer self-assesses.
Sending defective units back to an earlier operation to be corrected instead of scrapping them.
A sales RFQ (a customer asks you to quote) or a purchasing RFQ (you ask suppliers); both feed the opportunity thread.
When the customer submitted this RFQ; the response clock starts from this date.
The log of risks and opportunities raised against any entity, each rated by independent 1–5 severity and likelihood and driven to a resolution.
How this gauge is used — Standard (regular checks) or Master (calibrates other gauges).
GL account that absorbs sub-cent rounding differences on posting.
The ordered sequence of operations a job runs through, copied from the method's bill of process.
The kind of adjustment this rule applies — discount, surcharge, or fixed override; combined with Amount Type to compute the actual delta on each line.
S
Buffer stock the demand-based policy holds back to absorb consumption spikes within the accumulation period.
Default revenue GL account credited when a sales invoice posts.
Contra-revenue GL account for discounts given on customer invoices.
A firm customer commitment to deliver; fulfillment status splits across ship and invoice before reaching Completed.
GL liability account credited for sales tax collected from customers.
The fixed number of units to inspect from the front of each lot, regardless of lot size.
A non-conformance shared with a supplier over a login-free /share/scar link, so they can respond to the issue and update its tasks from outside Carbon.
Units reported as unrecoverable at an operation, with a reason — the alternative to rework.
The expected percentage of this item's output lost during production; planning multiplies demand by 1 / (1 − scrap) to compensate.
Estimated scrap quantity applied to every job in the bulk batch.
The catalog reason that explains this scrap; rolls up into scrap reports keyed by reason rather than by quantity.
When on, employees can edit this attribute's value on their own profile; otherwise only admins can.
The unique identifier on this physical unit; one row per serial, quantity is always 1.
Each physical unit gets its own tracked entity and unique number — one entity, one unit.
GL account for bank service charges and similar fees.
The impact rating if the risk is realized (1 = negligible to 5 = catastrophic); paired with Likelihood to compute the risk score.
Z1.4 severity (Normal / Tightened / Reduced); switches by rule based on recent lot-acceptance history.
How urgent this dispatch is — Low / Medium / High / Critical; combined with Priority and OEE Impact to decide schedule slot.
When a serial or batch expires, and what happens if used after — a company policy can Warn, Block, or BlockWithOverride.
How many days a serial or batch of this item stays usable after its start event; the shelf-life policy decides what happens past this date.
Which manufacturing event starts the shelf-life clock — for example, fill, seal, or final QC.
The warehouse goods on this quote will ship from; the customer's Shipping Location is where they'll arrive.
The warehouse goods on this order will ship from; the customer's Shipping Location is where they'll arrive.
The outbound posting document that takes goods out of stock to a customer, posting COGS as it goes.
The date the goods actually leave the warehouse; recorded on the shipment posting and used for on-time-shipping scoring.
Freight charged by this supplier for this line, when it itemizes shipping rather than rolling it into unit price.
Freight billed to the customer for this line, separate from the line's unit price.
The customer that goods are delivered to, when different from the customer being invoiced (e.g. invoice to HQ, ship to branch).
The carrier that delivers goods from this supplier, when different from the supplier itself (e.g. supplier sells, FedEx ships).
The stock sizes this material is purchased and held in; each size becomes a separate selectable variant on jobs and POs.
Where this entry originated (manual entry, posting from sales/purchasing, recurring template, etc.).
Where this issue was raised from — internal QA, customer complaint, supplier audit, etc.; used for reporting, doesn't gate workflow.
Where this maintenance request originated — operator-reported, scheduled, condition-monitoring trigger, post-job inspection; drives the source breakdown in maintenance reports.
What this receipt is fulfilling — a purchase order, a return, an inbound transfer, or a manual receipt with no parent.
What this shipment is fulfilling — a sales order, an outbound transfer, an RMA return, or a manual shipment.
The specific PO, return, or transfer this receipt posts against; available IDs depend on the source document type above.
The specific SO, transfer, or RMA this shipment posts against; available IDs depend on the source document type above.
The unit a routing time is expressed in, such as Hours/Piece or Total Hours, telling Carbon whether the time scales with quantity or is fixed per run.
The typical number of days between sending work to this supplier for this process and getting it back; planning offsets demand by this much when picking a supplier.
Whether the clock starts when the chosen process begins or when it completes.
The month your financial year begins; periods are numbered from this month.
The month your tax year begins; may differ from the fiscal year in some jurisdictions.
Draft is editable; Active is in use and requires a new version to change; Archived is retired.
The state of this quote line — Draft, No Quote, Complete; No Quote reveals the Reason field and excludes the line from the quote total.
The categories of stock allowed in this unit; used to enforce putaway rules (e.g. cold chain, hazardous).
Where this line's goods land in stock on receipt; if blank, receipts use the item's Default Storage Unit.
The storage bin this line picks from; if blank, picking uses the item's Default Storage Unit.
A depreciation method that charges an equal amount each period across the asset's useful life.
A Make to Order component that gets its own job and routing inside the parent's build.
GL account capturing cost differences on outside-processing operations.
Phasing out an item in favor of a successor part, so planning redirects the old item's demand — times a conversion factor — to the new one.
Controls how planning handles a discontinued item: Consume First exhausts on-hand before switching to the successor, Prefer New redirects new demand to the successor immediately, Stock Only keeps only a minimum service reserve, and No Stock drops the item from planning entirely.
The supplier record this portal account links to; only contacts already on that supplier can be selected as the account holder below.
The specific contact on the selected supplier who will own this portal account; their email becomes the sign-in identifier.
The supplier's own reference for this order (their SO number on their system); recorded for audit and surfaced on the receipt.
The identifier the supplier uses for this part on their quotes and invoices; Carbon resolves it to our internal Part ID.
GL account where early-payment discounts taken from suppliers are recorded.
A supplier's priced response to a purchasing RFQ — one per supplier; Draft → Active when they submit, or Declined.
The supplier's own quote / proposal number; recorded for traceability on the PO that converts from this quote.
The lifecycle state of this supplier — Active, Inactive, Pending Approval, etc.; only Active suppliers appear in PO / quote selectors.
The category this supplier belongs to (raw-material, services, contract-manufacturer); drives default GL accounts and reporting groupings.
The suppliers receiving this RFQ; each gets its own line on the RFQ that they respond to with their own pricing.
The outside suppliers that perform this process; each gets a row of pricing and lead-time inputs on the supplier process form.
The most likely failure mode the requester suspects; the technician confirms or replaces this on close-out, and the difference between suspected and actual feeds reliability reports.
T
A separate schedule for tax reporting when tax rules require a method different from book depreciation.
When on, this party's invoices skip tax calculation; the party is responsible for keeping the exemption certificate current.
Default tax depreciation method for new assets in this class.
The default tax rate applied to this customer's quote and sales-order lines, before per-line overrides; jurisdiction-specific tax math runs on top.
Default tax-book life for new assets in this class.
Months over which this asset depreciates for tax purposes (when not using MACRS).
Reconciling a purchase order against what was received and invoiced — implicit in Carbon, via the line quantities and GR/IR balance.
The local timezone this location reports time in; schedules, timecards, and shift hours at this location are interpreted in this zone regardless of the user's browser locale.
The total to make across all jobs created in this bulk batch; combined with Quantity Per Job to decide how many jobs to create.
The recorded genealogy of tracked entities — which inputs were consumed to produce which outputs, receipt through shipment.
One serial unit or one batch that Carbon follows individually, carrying its own status and attributes such as an expiry date.
Whether Carbon follows each unit (Serial), each lot (Batch), the quantity (Inventory), or no tracking (Non-Inventory).
The carrier's tracking-page URL with {trackingNumber} as a placeholder — Carbon substitutes the actual number when generating links on shipments.
The category of risk (operational, strategic, financial, compliance, etc.); drives which reports the risk rolls into.
What category of failure this is — Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Operator, Material, etc.; rolls up into the failure-mode pareto report so the category breakdown is meaningful.
Whether to Add the selected permissions on top of what each user already has, or Update by replacing each user's permission set wholesale with the selection below.
U
The negotiated price per unit on this line; the inline trace icon shows which pricing rule or override produced it.
Default useful life that pre-fills on new assets in this class.
The number of months over which this asset will be depreciated.
V
The allowed values users can pick when tagging postings with this dimension.
Value-added-tax registration number; required on EU invoices for reverse-charge or zero-rated supplies.
The version stamp for this document; new versions create a copy that supersedes the previous one without deleting it.
The version stamp for this procedure; new versions create a copy that supersedes the previous one without deleting it.
Users and groups allowed to open or download this document; the uploader is always included.
W
Where an operation runs; carries labor and quoting rates, with overhead the difference between them.
Assigns this unit to a work center for lineside material, so operators see it on the production view; inherited from the parent unit when set there.
Not a table but a general-ledger balance: cost accumulates as job materials are issued and clears when the job is received to stock.
GL account that holds the value of jobs in production until they post to finished goods.
The preset bundle of tasks and approval requirements applied to this issue; overrides the issue type's default workflow when set.
GL expense account debited when an asset's carrying value is reduced by impairment, i.e. when its recoverable amount falls below net book value.
Temporary disposal-clearing account debited for an asset's net book value on shipment and credited for its net book value on invoicing, netting to zero over the sale cycle.