Glossary T

tag-along product

A product that is either required or suggested to be sold with a parent product. For example, you sell quantities of refrigerant gas that requires a suitable tank. The refrigerant gas is the parent product and the tank is the tag-along product. You do not sell the gas without the tank. You do not sell the tank without the gas.

 

tagging, tagged item

An item on a purchase order or transfer order that was procured outside the normal path of replenishment for a particular sales order. The "tagging" created a dynamic relationship between those transaction, so that changes, such as price, made to the item on one order reflects on the other order. This tagging also allows the system to trace a vendor invoice for freight charges back to the customers who received the emergency procured items, enabling you to bill these customers for freight to follow.

 

target

See vendor target.

 

tax

A charge imposed by the government on goods or services for public purposes.

 

tax jurisdiction

The limits or territory within which a tax can be levied on goods or services purchased, such as state, local, or county taxes.

terms codes

Codes used to define payment terms for invoices. For example, the agreement between the parties of the invoice which determines the payment of the invoice, such as payment dates, discounts, or service charges.

For more information, see Terms Maintenance Overview.

 

territory

Regions that contains one or more branches. Territory parameters maintain default settings for branches within a territory.

 

top-down warehousing

System by which products for the parent branch are replenished before replenishing the child branches.

For more information, see Stock/Nonstock Determination and Branch Replenishment.

 

trackers

Electronic documents you can use to pass information and instructions, document customer and supplier interactions, place notes within critical customer service documents, view pertinent documentation, and manage and follow up on tasks.

Trackers display in your user job queue. See job queue.

For more information, see User Job Queue Overview.

 

Trading Partner Tree

Used in XML. A structure for organizing your trading partners and their associated transaction maps in the Business Connect XML mapping utility.

For more information, see Business Connect XML Mapping Utility Main Window Aspects.

 

transaction maps

Used in XML. Representations of how data from an incoming source maps to data in Eclipse, or how data in Eclipse maps to an external source. The transaction map creates an XQuery, which the system uses to translate data from an XML document to a format Eclipse can understand, or to translate Eclipse data into XML. A valid transaction map includes an inbound request, an outbound request, or both, and mapping selection criteria.

For more information, see XML Transaction Maps Overview.

 

transaction schemas

One or more database schemas that define an XML transaction type. For example, the Order and OrderDetail schemas combined together form an OrderSubmit transaction.

 

transfer

To send replenishment stock from one location to another location.

 

transfer branch

A branch that can replenish a selling branch in need, usually because the transfer branch is in close proximity to the selling branch.

 

transfer cycle

The anticipated schedule of branch replenishment by a parent branch.

 

transfer excess grace days

Provide a buffer so child branches with large quantities of surplus stock can retain some the stock before returning the stock to the parent branch. The transfer days increase the surplus point, so that a larger quantity remains in the branch. Over time, the grace days are reduced, permitting over-stocked branches to gradually send surplus back to the central warehouse.

For more information, see How Transfer Excess Grace Days Work.

 

transfer order

An order in which you move stock from one branch to another within your company.

For more information, see Transfer Order Entry Overview.

 

transfer point

Level of stock that determines when a warehousing branch needs to replenish stock at the child branches.

Transfer point = ((Transfer cycle days + safety days) + average demand per day) + safety stock)

 

trial balance

An Eclipse report that combines the information from the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

 

turns, turnover

A measurement of the costs associated with the cycle of purchasing an item, selling it, and replenishing it in a period. Historically, it costs more to purchase small quantities that turn over faster, but costs less to purchase large quantities which turn over slower. Ideally, you want to maximize the number of times you turn inventory, while minimizing the carrying cost of the inventory.

Turnover = Total COGS for Product in 365 Days / Average On-Hand Cost

 

turn and earn pricing

Pricing that is more competitive on faster moving items and less competitive on slower moving items. You make up for lack of turns with greater earns on slower moving items. This type of pricing can be implemented doing product ranking and using the velocity pricing function in Sell Matrix Maintenance.