Terms
Terms are listed as they appear on screen. The Bangla column explains them; it does not rename them.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Stakeholder | The kind of organisation a user belongs to: Administration, Client, Vendor or Project Management |
| Department | A division of Administration: Administration, Finance or Procurement |
| Role / Designation | A named job title that carries a set of page permissions, such as Procurement Admin |
| Module | One of the six page groups: Overview, Procurement, Finance, Inventory, Vendor, Set Up |
| Page | One screen, with its own address and its own permission |
| Grant | A role's access to one page, as four separate flags: read, write, delete and export |
| Client Unit | A site or division of a client that orders and receives independently |
| Requisition | A client's request for goods or services. It contains one or more items |
| Requisition Item | A single line of a requisition. This, not the requisition, is what gets quoted, ordered and delivered |
| Quotation Request | An invitation to one vendor to quote on one requisition item |
| Quotation Response | A vendor's price submission against a quotation request |
| Quotation Selection | Procurement's choice of the winning response for an item |
| Purchase Order | The binding order issued to the winning vendor |
| Shipment | A vendor's dispatch of goods against a purchase order |
| Warehouse Inventory | Stock held at an ATI warehouse |
| Client Stock | Stock delivered to and held by a client unit |
| Bill | The payable created once goods are delivered. It moves through the finance approval chain |
| Account Manager | A Finance role scoped to specific clients. Senior authorises bills; Assistant settles them |
| VAT / Tax Copy | The statutory documents collected from the vendor after payment |
| Control Unit | The administration screen where page permissions are edited |
| Superuser | Super Admin — bypasses ordinary page permission checks, but not stakeholder-exclusive pages |
| OTP | The one-time code emailed to you to verify your address before your account can be used |
| BDT | Bangladeshi Taka — the currency all quotations and orders are in |
| BIN / TIN | The business and tax identification numbers recorded against a vendor or client organisation |
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