The Logistics Glossary
A
- Accelerated Commercial Release Operations Support System (ACROSS)
- Accessibility
- Accessorial Charges
- Accounts Receivable (A/R)
- Active Stock
- Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS )
- Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
- Advanced Shipment Notice (ASN)
- Agency Tariff
- Agent
- Aggregate Tender Rate
- Airport and Airway Trust Fund
- Air Cargo
- Air Cargo Agent
- Air Cargo Containers
- Air Carrier
- Air Taxi
- Air Transport Association of America
- Air Waybill (AWB)
- All Water
- All-Cargo Carrier
- American Society of Transportation & Logistics
- American Trucking Associations
- American Waterway Operators
- Anti-Dumping Duty
- Any-Quantity (AQ) rate
- Arrival Notice
- Assemble to Order
- Association of American Railroads
- ATA
- ATD
- ATFI
- Audit
- Automated Broker Interface (ABI)
- Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS)
- Automated Storage/Retrieval System (AS/RS)
- Automatic Tire Inflation System
B
- Back Order
- Balance of Trade
- Barge
- Bar Code
- Basing-Point Pricing
- Billing
- Bill of Lading Number
- Bill of Lading (BOL)
- Bill of Lading, Through
- Bin Center
- Blanket Rate
- Blanket Release
- Blanket Wrap
- Bonded Warehouse
- Booking
- Booking Number
- Boxcar
- Bracing
- Break Bulk Cargo
- Break Bulk Vessel
- Break-Bulk
- Broker
- Buffer
- Buffer Management
- Bulk Area
- Bulk Cargo
- Bundle
- Buyer Behavior
C
- Cabotage
- Cab Extenders
- Cage
- Capacity Planning
- CARAT
- Cargo
- Carmack Amendment
- Carnet
- Carrier
- Carrier Assets
- Carrier Certificate and Release Order
- Carrier Class
- Carrier Liability
- Cartage
- Carton Flow Rack
- Cash In Advance (CIA)
- Catalog Channel
- CELL
- Center-of-Gravity Approach
- Certificated Carrier
- Certificate of Insurance
- Certificate of Origin
- Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
- Certified Supplier
- Chargeable Weight
- Charging Area
- City Driver
- Civil Aeronautics Board
- CL
- Claim
- Classification yard
- Class Rates
- Class 1 Railroad
- Clearance
- CLM
- Coastal Carriers
- Collective Paper
- Collect Freight
- Combi Aircraft
- Commercial Invoice
- Commercial zone
- Commodity Code
- Common Carrier Duties
- Commuter
- Complete and On-Time Delivery (COTD)
- Complete Manufacture to Ship Time
- Conference
- Conference Carrier
- Consignee
- Consignment Inventory
- Consignor
- Consolidation
- Consolidator
- Consolidator’s Bill of Lading
- Consular Declaration
- Consular Invoice
- Consumption Entry
- Container
- Containerization
- Container Chassis
- Container Depot
- Container Freight Station Charge
- Container Freight Station to Container Freight Station (CFS/CFS)
- Container Freight Station (CFS)
- Container on Flat Car (COFC)
- Container Terminal
- Container Vessel
- Container Yard
- Container Yard to Container Yard (CY/CY)
- Contract Carrier
- Contract of Affreightment
- Conveyance
- Conveyor
- Coordinated Transportation
- Cost and Freight (C & F)
- Cost, Insurance, Freight
- Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
- Countertrade
- Countervailing Duties
- Country of Destination
- Courier Service
- Co-Managed Inventory (CMI)
- Co-Packer
- Crossdock
- Cross Docking
- Cross Shipment
- Cubage
- Cube Out
- Cube Utilization
- Cubic Capacity
- Cubic Space
- Cumulative Lead Time
- Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF)
- Customer Driven
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer/Order Fulfillment Process
- Customs
- Customs Broker
- Customs Clearance
- Customs House Broker
- Customs Invoice
- Customs Value
- Cycle Time to Process Obsolete and End-of-Life Product Returns for Disposal
- Cycle Time to Repair or Refurbish Returns for Use
D
- Deadweight Tons (DWT)
- Declaration of Dangerous Goods
- Declared Value for Carriage
- Deconsolidator
- Dedicated Contract Carriage
- Defective goods inventory (DGI)
- Delivery Appointment
- Delivery Order
- Delivery-Duty-Paid
- Density
- Density rate
- Deregulation
- Derived demand
- Destination
- Differential
- Direct Channel
- Direct-to-Store (DTS) Delivery
- Discharge Port
- Disintermediation
- Dispatching
- Distribution Center (DC)
- Distribution Channel
- Distribution Channel Management
- Distribution Planning
- Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP)
- Distribution Resource Planning (DRP II)
- Distribution Warehouse
- Diversion
- Dock Receipt
- Documentation
- Domestic Trunk Line Carrier
- Door to Door
- Door to Port
- Double Bottoms
- Double-Pallet Jack
- Downstream
- Drayage
- Drayage Firms
- Drop
- Drop Ship
- Dual Operation
- Dual rate system
- Dunnage
- Duty
- Duty Drawback
- Duty Free Zone (DFZ)
E
- Embargo
- Enroute
- Entry Form
- Equipment
- Equipment Positioning
- ETA
- Evaluated Receipts Settlement (ERS)
- Exclusive Patronage Agreements
- Exclusive Use
- Exempt Carrier
- Export
- Exporter Identification Number (EIN)
- Export Compliance
- Export Declaration
- Export License
- Export Management Company
- Export Sales Contract
- Export Trading Company
F
- Fair Return
- Fair Value
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Federal Maritime Commission
- FEU
- Field Finished Goods
- Field Service Parts
- Field Warehouse
- Fill Rate
- Fill Rates by Order
- Final Destination
- Finance Lease
- Financial Responsibility
- Flatbed
- Float
- Floor-Ready Merchandise (FRM)
- Flow Rack
- FOB Destination
- FOB Origin
- Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ)
- Forklift Truck
- For-Hire Carrier
- Free Alongside Ship
- Free Along Side (FAS)
- Free Time
- Freight
- Freight Bill
- Freight Carriers
- Freight Charge
- Freight Collect
- Freight Consolidation
- Freight Forwarder
- Freight Forwarders Institute
- Freight Prepaid
- Freight Quotation
- Freight-All-Kinds (FAK)
- Fronthaul
- Fulfillment
- Full Containerload (FCL)
- Full Truckload (FTL)
- Full-Service Leasing
G
H
I
- Igloos
- Import
- Importation Point
- Import/Export License
- Inbound logistics
- Incentive Rate
- Independent Action
- Indirect/Distributor Channel
- Inland Bill of Lading
- Inland Carrier
- Inspection Certificate
- Insurance
- Insurance Certificate
- Integrated Carrier
- Intercoastal carriers
- Intercorporate hauling
- Interline
- Intermediately Positioned Warehouse
- Intermediate Destination
- Intermittent-Flow, Fixed-Path Equipment
- Intermodal Container Transfer Facility
- Intermodal Marketing Company (IMC)
- Intermodal Transportation
- Internal Water Carriers
- International Air Transport Association
- International Import Certificate
- International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- Interstate Commerce
- Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
- Intrastate Commerce
- Inventory Cost
- Inventory In Transit
- Inventory Velocity
- Invoice
- In Bond
- In-Transit Inventory
- Irregular Route Carrier
- Issuing Carrier
- Item
L
- Lading
- Laid-Down cost
- Landed Cost
- Land bridge
- Lash Barges
- LASH Vessel
- Lead Time
- Leg
- Less-Than-Carload (LCL)
- Less-Than-Containerload (LCL)
- Less-Than-Truckload (LTL)
- Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Carriers
- Lift on, Lift off (LO/LO)
- Lighter
- Lighterage
- Liner Service
- Line Functions
- Line-Haul Shipment
- Link
- Live
- Loading Allowance
- Loading Port
- Load Factor
- Load Tendering
- Load Tender (Pick-Up Request)
- Local Rate
- Local Service Carriers
- Locational Determinant
- Logistics
- Logistics Channel
- Logistics Costs
- Logistics Data Interchange (LDI)
- Logistics Management as defined by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
- LTL shipment
- Lumping
M
- Major Carrier
- Make to Order (Manufacture to Order)
- Make to Stock (Manufacture to Stock)
- Management of All Logistics
- Manifest
- Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP-II)
- Marine Cargo Insurance – Average
- Marine Cargo Insurance – FPA (Free of Particular Average)
- Marine Cargo Insurance – General Average
- Marine Cargo Insurance – Open Policy
- Maritime Administration (Mar Ad)
- Market Dominance
- Market-Positioned Warehouse
- Marks and Numbers
- Master Air Waybill (MAWB)
- Materials Handling
- Materials Management
- Measurement Ton
- Merger
- Merge In Transit
- Micro-Land Bridge
- Mileage Allowance
- Mileage Rate
- Minimum Weight
- Mini-Land bridge
- Mixed Loads
- Modal Split
- Motor Carrier
- Movement of Goods
- Multinational Company
- Multiple-Car Rate
N
- National Industrial Transportation League
- National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC)
- Negotiable BOL
- Net Weight
- Node
- Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)
- Non-Certificated carrier
- Non-Negotiable BOL
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Notify Party
- Not otherwise specified/Not elsewhere specified (NOS/NES)
- No Location (No Loc)
O
P
- Packing List
- Pallet
- Pallet Wrapping Machine
- Parcel Shipment
- Passenger-Mile
- Pay on Use
- Pegging
- Perfect Order
- Performance and Event Management Systems
- Permit
- Personal Discrimination
- Per Diem
- Physical Supply
- Picking
- Picking by Aisle
- Picking by Source
- Pick List
- Pick-Up Order
- Pick/Pack
- Piggyback
- Place Utility
- Planned Date
- Point of Use Delivery
- Police Powers
- Pooling
- Port
- Port Authority
- Port of Discharge
- Port of Entry
- POS
- Postponement
- Prepaid
- Prepaid Freight
- Pre-Expediting
- Primary-Business Test
- Private Carrier
- Private Trucking Fleets
- Private Warehouse
- Private Warehousing
- Profitable to Promise
- Proportional Rate
- Pro Forma Invoice
- Pro Number
- Public Warehouse
- Public Warehouse receipt
- Public Warehousing
- Pull Ordering System
- Put Away
- P & D
R
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
- Receiving
- Receiving Dock
- Refrigerated Carriers
- Replenishment
- Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Returns Inventory Costs
- Returns Material Acquisition, Finance, Planning, and IT Costs
- Returns Processing Cost
- Return Disposal Costs
- Return Goods Handling
- Return Material Authorization or Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA)
- Return Product Authorization (RPA)
- Return to Vendor (RTV)
- Reverse Logistics
- Route Trucks Delivery
- Routing or Routing Guide
S
- SCOR
- Self Billing
- Service Level
- Shingo’s Seven Wastes
- Shipper
- Shipper-Carriers
- Shipping
- Shipping Lane
- Shipping Manifest
- Short Shipment
- Shrinkage
- Slotting
- Split Delivery
- Stickering
- Straight Truck
- Subhauler
- Supplier Certification
- Supplier-Owned Inventory
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Design
- Supply Chain Execution (SCE)
- Supply Chain Inventory Visibility
- Supply Chain Network Design Systems
- Supply Chain Strategic Planning
- Supply Warehouse
T
- Tare Weight
- Tariff
- Terms and Conditions (T’s & C’s)
- Third Party Logistics
- Third Party Logistics Provider (3PL)
- Third Party Warehousing
- Throughput
- Total Cost Analysis
- Total Cost Curve
- Total Cumulative Manufacture Cycle Time
- Total Product Revenue
- Total Test Release Cycle Time
- Traceability
- Tracking and Tracing
- Trading Partner
- Trading Partner Agreement
- Traffic
- Traffic Management
- Trailer
- Trailer Drops
- Transit Time
- Transportation Management System
- Transportation Mode
- Transportation Planning
- Transportation Planning Systems
- Truckload Carriers (TL)
- Truckload Lot