Supply Point: anywhere where commodities are stocked. This could be a variety of things, including a service delivery point (e.g. clinic), a store, a warehouse, a truck.
Request: create a requisition at facility
Approve: approve the quantities (at administrative/supervising facility or wherever else this happens)
Pick/Pack: Picking of product from inventory and then packing into shipment containers at issuing facility
Ship: move packed goods to facility
Receive: receive quantity at facility
Issue: used for issues at all levels, including warehouse issuing to facility and facility issuing to client. Should add up to the same amount that was pick&packed.
Transfers: movement of stock from one supply point to a peer
Adjustments: corrections made e.g. when you count the same stock a second time and the numbers add up differently due to human error
Losses: e.g. expirations
Consumption: the amount of commodity consumed/used/lossed/damaged at a supply point. The verb 'consume' is not really used, presumably because it is less specific than issues+losses+adjustments.
Fill Rate: Percentage of customer or consumption orders satisfied from stock at hand. It is a measure of an inventory's ability to meet demand.
Dispensed, Consumed: given to customer, wasted, or discarded
Usage data: similar to dispensed to user, except that it is used by the consumer but is not dispensed directly to them (i.e., laboratory reagents, HIV test kits, etc.).
Requisition System (pull system): the person who receives the supplies calculates the quantities of supplies required.
Allocation System (push system): the person who issues the supplies calculates the quantities of supplies required
Fulfillment: The act of fulfilling a customer order. Fulfillment includes order management, picking, packaging, and shipping.