Think about how physicists talk about particles, they can pick any name, rename them but everyone knows what's what because the names are defined by the set of properties not the other way around. If they find distinct sets of properties they want to talk about then they know they need another name.
I ran into this same scenario talking about names for different states of inventory. Every person/company I talked to had different names or meanings of special 'reserved'/set-aside states. I kept telling everyone to define what they mean by that name, list the expected behaviors of it. Then it doesn't matter what anyone calls anything, I can match them up by properties/behaviors or find out they're distinct things.
Things became clear you can't trust names when I saw the formula: on-hand = available + unavailable + committed. Shouldn't available + unavailable form some complete total?
I ran into this same scenario talking about names for different states of inventory. Every person/company I talked to had different names or meanings of special 'reserved'/set-aside states. I kept telling everyone to define what they mean by that name, list the expected behaviors of it. Then it doesn't matter what anyone calls anything, I can match them up by properties/behaviors or find out they're distinct things.
Things became clear you can't trust names when I saw the formula: on-hand = available + unavailable + committed. Shouldn't available + unavailable form some complete total?