A stock item in a location can be linked to an article in a central catalog. This identifies both entries as identical. 

Via the link between the catalog article and the stock item in a location you get the following advantages:

1. Adjustments of detail information and prices for catalog articles will be automatically distributed to all linked articles. Instead of adjusting the stock items details manually for each single ship/site you can use the catalog for the centralized management of these data.
1. Having a link for a catalog article to a stock item in a location enables the quantity tracking for this item. Catalog articles do not support quantity tracking due to the central character of this database - stock items do.

*[PO]: Purchase Order  
*[AZA]: local folder
*[(PO]: Purchase Order  
*[RQ]: Requisition  
*[(RQ]: Requisition  
*[RfQ]: Request for Quotation  
*[(RfQ]: Request for Quotation  
*[SO]: Service Order  
*[(SO]: Service Order  
*[SQ]: Service Requisition  
*[(SQ]: Service Requisition  
*[SRfQ]: Service Request for Quotation  
*[OoB]: Open on Board  
*[(OoB]: Open on Board 
*[ART]: Average Running Time (operation hours per day) 
*[MC]: Master Contract
*[ADS]: Advantage Database Server (database engine used in previous versions of the ZeeBORN software)
*[.replic]: file extension for replication files (aka data transfer files)