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Logistics Vocab

Subject : business-skills
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1. Facts or recorded measures of certain phenomena.






2. Strives to keep customers happy and creates in the customer's mind the perception of an organization that is easy to do business with.






3. Classifying orders according to pre-established guidelines so that a company can prioritize how orders should be filled.






4. System that attempts enterprisewide coordination of relevant business processes by allowing (conceptually - at least) all functional areas within a firm to access and analyze a common database.






5. A program in which public and private organizations work together to prevent terrorism against the United States through imports and transportation.






6. Bill of Lading






7. Refers to communication without cables and cords - and includes infrared - microwave - and radio transmissions.






8. Cartels of all ocean vessel operators operating between certain trade areas.






9. Multiple logistics activities are combined into - and managed as - a single department.






10. Often accompanies an SED and provides explicit shipment instructions.

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11. An analysis of workers' productivity over short periods of time. Each worker is assigned specific duties that he or she should be able to complete during the time period provided.






12. Economic activity that can be conducted via electronic connections such as EDI and the internet.






13. Refers to the fact that more items are recorded entering than leaving warehouse facilities.






14. A product that gains weight in processing; the processing point should be close to the market.






15. Inventory that is held for several reasons such as seasonal demand - projected price increases - and potential product shortages.






16. A small device that responds to radio signals from an outside source.






17. Having products available where they are needed by customers.






18. Occurs when a cargo takes up a vehicle's or a container's cubic capacity before reaching its weight capacity.






19. Restrictions other than tariffs that are placed on imported products.






20. Simulation of the types of problems that the package will be exposed to in warehouses and in transit.






21. Pricing that includes both the price of the product and the transportation cost of the product to the purchaser's receiving dock.






22. Collects and stores information about transactions and may also control some aspects of transactions.






23. An inventory system that responds to actual (rather than forecasted) customer demand.






24. Combining smaller packages into larger unites that can be more efficiently handled at one time.






25. Transportation service that is supplemental to line-haul transportation.






26. Goods moving between two points - often accompanied by a live bill of lading.






27. Refers to waterborne transportation that utilizes inland and coastal waterways to move shipments from domestic ports to their destination.






28. People - equipment - and procedures to gather - sort - analyze - evaluate - and distribute needed - timely - and accurate information to logistics decision makers.






29. Day-to-day decision making - Operations controlled against standards and rules - Control via weekly/monthly reports - The implementation of the operational plan






30. Having products available when they are needed by customers.






31. A transportation manager who purchases a prespecified level of transportation service and is indifferent to the mode(s) or carrier(s) used to provide the actual transportation service.






32. Seeks to minimize inventory by reducing (if not eliminating) safety stock - as well as having the required amount of materials arrive at the production location at the exact time they are needed.






33. A process for returning a customer to a state of satisfaction after a service or product has failed to live up to expectations.






34. For-hire carriers that have been exempted from economic regulation through provisions in various pieces of legislation.






35. These are material that have been spoiled - broken - or otherwise rendered unfit for further use or reclamation.






36. Concept that suggests that all relevant activities in moving and storing products should be considered as a whole (i.e. - their total cost) - not individually.






37. Stock that exceeds the reasonable requirements of an organization.






38. Refers to choosing the locations for distribution centers - warehouses - and production facilities to facilitate logistical effectiveness and efficiency.






39. A technique used to model the systems under study - typically using mathematical equations to represent relationships among components of a logistics system.






40. A common credential that will be used to identify workers across all modes of transportation.






41. Strategic - Tactical - Operational






42. Occurs when the shipper notifies the carrier - prior to the shipment's arrival in the destination city - of a change in destination.






43. Assumes that one or more factors are related to demand - and the relationship between cause and effect can be used to estimate future demand.






44. The movement and storage of materials into a firm.






45. According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) - that part of supply chain management that plans - implements - and controls the efficient - effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods - services - and rel






46. The time from when a transportation carrier picks up the shipment until it is received by the customer.






47. Created by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to encourage business development-through various tax credits-in economically depressed portions of cities.






48. Elapsed time between a customer places an order and when the goods are received.






49. Material that is used to block and brace products inside carrier equipment to prevent the shipment from shifting in transit and becoming damaged.






50. Looks at the entire logistics systems to see how well all of its components function together.