Mill certificate

A mill certificate is documentation from the manufacturer certifying a material's chemical and mechanical properties for a specific production lot, and it is frequently required on fastener and PVF orders.

Also written: mill cert · MTR · certificate of conformance · CoC

A line requiring certs is not just an item — it carries a paperwork obligation that has to travel with the shipment and be traceable to a heat or lot number.

The requirement is often stated once on a cover sheet or in an email body and applies to lines further down the document, which is exactly the sort of context lost during re-keying.

Why it matters on an order desk

FrontBeacon keeps the requirement attached to the affected lines rather than discarding it with the page it appeared on.

Related terms

Item masterAn item master is the authoritative catalog record in an ERP defining every product a distributor sells, including its SKU, description, units of measure, pack sizes and pricing basis.

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