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Glossary.
What these words mean. Every term this product uses, gathered in one place, in the reader's own words. Each one says which pages use it - follow the link to see it in context.
| Cash conversion cycle | How many months a pound is tied up in your business between paying your supplier and being paid by your customer: stock-holding months, plus customer payment terms, minus supplier payment terms. A negative figure means customers pay you before you pay your suppliers, which is a favourable position. | Costs |
| Closest achievable plan | When no plan can meet every limit you set, we show the nearest one that can be run, and name every limit it breaks and by how much. We never quietly relax one of your limits to make the answer look tidy. | Order plan, Options |
| Landed cost | What goods cost once every charge to get them to your door is added in: the goods price, freight, insurance, duty, and VAT. Different from the price on the supplier's invoice. | Costs, Order plan |
| Landed-cost price estimate | What these goods cost to buy from your partner country and bring home. Where customs trade data lets us measure a real unit price for the category's HS chapter, we use that measured price as-is. Where it doesn't, we build a modelled estimate instead, from factory-gate prices where the goods are made, the exchange rate, and shipping and energy costs. Each chart says which one you're looking at and when it was last updated. | Costs |
| Limits that cannot all be met | The smallest set of your own limits that cannot hold at the same time. It is worked out by testing them: lift one, and see whether a plan exists. Where lifting one is genuinely enough, we say so; where it is not, we say that instead. | Options |
| Locked-in months | The first months of the plan, which nothing you order today can change, because stock takes time to arrive and bills take time to fall due. A shortfall there is a consequence of where you start, not of the plan. | Order plan |
| Runway | How many months your cash on hand would last given your revenue, costs, and any extra cost from a scenario, before it runs out. Arithmetic on your own numbers, not a prediction of your sales. | Costs |
| Safety buffer | The stock level the plan will not knowingly go below. It is the higher of the cover you asked for and the cover your own stated swings imply, because those are two different statements and both are a minimum rather than a target. | Decision, Order plan |
| Scenario | A stated 'what if', for example costs following the same pace as a past disruption. Plain arithmetic on an assumption you choose. | Costs, Order plan |