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1. A section of a warehouse of a certain area and height, on which there are racks, shelves and cabinets with specified storage addresses of goods. 2. The storage area of the goods in the warehouse

Inventories that are ordered in certain periods and held to meet current demand in that period.

Inventory Adjustment (Adjustment) is the systematic increase or decrease of stock in order to correct stock errors that occur on the system.

see Receiving order.

Detailed shipment information transmitted to a customer or consignee in advance of delivery, designating the contents (individual products and quantities of each) and nature of the shipment. May also include carrier and shipment specifics including time of shipment and expected time of arrival.

Passage between warehouse racks, between warehouse walls and racks, etc. The width of aisle depends on sizes of storaged goods, view of used FLT (and other transport equipment – reach trucks, pallet movers) and other factors.

It means to reserve something for someone or a place in particular.

The part of Physical Distribution process, including executor, delivery in defined place of warehouse or logistics center of consolidated lot goods that are used for transportation or dispatch. Goods displacement begins from allotted order or several allotted orders.

see Adjustment.

Pallet located on reception dock (transported from supplier).

Reception plan of received pallet on receiving dock by orders from suppliers.

The amount of something that a factory, company, machine, etc. has to hold things

The date on which the arrival of goods is scheduled to take place, or goods must be delivered.

It means the goods type and its numerical and alphabetic value.

Goods and services community grouped by some attributes. It is characterized by quantity of goods (services) supplied to consumer and depth or goods quantity for each item (on shelf).

The state of any action within the system.

1. An order from an earlier. "period of time for goods that have not yet been produced or that have not" 2. An overdue purchase order item that cannot or was not shipped with the rest of the items on the PO. A supplier contract must be setup to accept backorders. 3. Product ordered but out of stock and promised to ship when it becomes available.

Within the scope of automatic identification technology, they are combinations of lines and spaces of different thicknesses that can be read with an optical reader device and transferred to the computer environment as numbers, characters or a mixture of them.

the main route taken from the sending place to the receiving place.

Number of bay on warehouse

Date up to which it is necessary to use the goods.

A document that gives information about goods beeing transported. It is also a contract to transport the goods, and shows that the transporter has received the goods.

A commitment from the consignor to the carrier or forwarder for the provision of service used for plan the carrier or forwarder.

A message from a carrier or forwarder to the consignor booking services, providing confirmation of a booking for a specified consignment. A confirmation may indicate that the booking of a consignment is accepted, pending, conditionally accepted or rejected.

Goods that have been destroyed in the warehouse or destroyed or damaged during other operations.

Goods stored in bulk, not packed in containers.

A storage area for large items that are handled most efficiently as a minimum. (Area and height are taken into account when storing)

A person or legal entity that purchases or intends to purchase any product

Order cancelling by supplier (by reasons independent from supplier’s side). Parties should agree penalty amount for cancelling order before signing the contract.

It is the status of canceled actions in the system.

Goods transported or to be transported.

Conditions are determined by a particular route and separated by goods and materials. For example dangerous, fragile etc. It is divided according to the package type; package, roll, case etc. The transfer is carried out using special transport equipment (trailer, truck, plane, etc.) according to safety rules.

A natural or legal person who uses a vehicle for commercial transportation.

А large box or container in which things can be stored or moved

The structure where the goods under the customs supervision of the warehouse are placed

A section of the warehouse premises of a certain area and height, where the goods are taken to the warehouse.

It is completed – the status of any action in system.

1. Consignee – a person authorized to accept the cargo delivered by the carrier; 2. Consignor – a party to the consignment agreement.

1. Sending. 2. Consignment is a form of sale of goods close to commission trading. The seller (consignor) transfers his goods for sale to an intermediary (consignor), but retains ownership of them until they are sold by the intermediary. The latter receives a commission for this. 3. Acceptance plan.

The party initiating a shipment of goods is the shipper.

Logistics of direct communication with the consumer – processes and tools of the supply chain that provide direct communication with the consumer.

Goods in packaging for retail trade, marked with bar code for scanning on POS terminal. Examples of CU: bottle of mineral water, pen, cornflakes carton. CUs are marked by bar code EAN- 13 (or EAN-8 in case of little low-sized packagings).

Cross-docking is a practice in the logistics of unloading materials from one type of transport directly to a customer or another mode of transport with little or no storage in between.

A customer is a consumer of a product or service offered.

Damaged goods.

Goods that during transportation, storage or transshipment may cause fire, explosion, damage to vehicles and track structures, illness, injury or death of people and animals, or cause environmental damage. Include explosive and flammable substances, infectious substances, radioactive materials, etc.

Defines items that can be delivered from a warehouse to a store. Goods and services aggregate, merged by into/out of stock sign.

The process of bringing goods from one place to another.

Delivery is the process of moving goods from a source location to a predefined destination.

The date the goods were accepted

A delivery note is a type of document used in the business; usually comes with the shipment of goods and details what is included in the shipment.

1. A point to where primary goods which are subject of a futures contract are to be delivered by instructions of commodity exchange. Sometimes alternative points of delivery may be indicated.

A point where conveyance of property of the goods to the buyer takes place.

A delivery schedule is an agreement between the buyer and seller about when and how often the goods will be delivered. It is a plan that specifies the characteristics of future delivery times.

ON TIME in the System: the time required for the ordered PRODUCTS to be delivered to the CONSUMER. In some systems, this interval is equal to ±30 minutes and the fine paid by the supplier or carrier for breach of interval requirements is equal to several thousand dollars.

Quantity, quality, assortment, packaging of goods, procedure for transfer of OWNERSHIP, payment of transport costs, etc. Terms and conditions stipulated by LAW or SUPPLY CONTRACT for.

The date and place of shipment of the goods

A place where large quantities of goods, equipment, or materials are stored until they are needed.

The process of reducing the volume of leftovers in the warehouse.

ONE OF THE FEATURES OF CARGO TRANSPORTATION, length, width, height, diameter etc. defines.

А delivery of goods by producer to consumer without storage operations at the retailing facilities.

Products go from the plant or warehouse directly to a customer account. A method of delivering merchandise from manufacturer directly to the retail store, bypassing retail

Difference between two goods

Document by means of which the seller or consignor informs the consignee or buyer about the dispatch of goods.

The shipping unit is the packaging of goods (goods) intended for shipment by the manufacturer to the buyer (retailer) in the fulfillment of the order.

Transfer of goods from one warehouse to another warehouse.

The warehouse that connects the supply network and the distribution network. Unlike a regular warehouse) it usually performs short-term storage functions close to the distribution channel.

А place in warehouse where trucks are loaded and unloaded.

A trailer with a body designed for doubledeck loading of the goods.

Consumer goods such as houses, cars, TV sets, which are “consumed“ not at once but at a long time period.

see SKU description.

The most widely used pallet, which has become a standard for truck and container sizes around the world

The expiration date is the date that indicates that a product should be consumed or used before.

It is delayed – the status of goods or action.

Additional and not wanted or needed quantity of goods because there is already enough of it.

Products in high demand; products that make up a relatively small part of the product range, but make up the largest share of turnover.

Pre-booking of transport services.

Forklift is a kind of construction machine used to lift heavy loads by means of its forks and especially to load them onto a vehicle or rack

А driver of FLT (see FLT).

They are goods that are sensitive to any damage situation.

Franchises are companies that give the right to name, for a certain price, from companies that have proven their quality and name to the product, service, and that have been successful.

Any business owner with an advanced production, operating and marketing system, trade name and registered trademark.

A mediator, acting on the basis of the contract of the transport expedition, arranging the transport, but not necessarily directly participating.

Full pallet with goods of one type (Mono Item Pallet).

GLN is a 13-digit EAN.UCC code that identifies a physical, functional or legal entity.

Identification of a trade item, which is defined as any item (product or service) upon which there is a need to retrieve pre- defined information and that may be priced or ordered or invoiced at any point in any supply chain. GTIN is a 14-digit EAN.UCC number used to identify products and services

The combining of shipments (consignments), perhaps by tariff code or transport package units, for a certain part of their journey towards their destinations into a means of transport (normally a truck) and/or into a piece of transport equipment.

It is an operation carried out by freight forwarders. The main objective is to combing several small deliveries in one shipment (to reduced costs), which is transported under groupage bill of lading. The grouping of shipments consolidated in order to reduce costs or improve utilization of the transportation function.

Ministry of Transport, when stored or health, safety and property when moved that it determines may pose a risk to substance or material.

Heterogeneous goods, unlike homogeneous goods, are goods of different quality and type consisting of various products or materials.

Any identical goods that are supplied on market by producer-competitors. Buyers see them as substitute and will not give preference to products of competitors. The producers must sell these goods with identical prices due to product homogenity.

Goods storage method

IIn progress is a status of some action in the system.

In transit is a status of some action in the system.

The flow of goods from suppliers to the warehouse and delivered to the acceptance dock using transport vehicles.

Some, but not all, of the pallet is filled with goods

A specific area with shelves and cabinets with specified storage addresses, and a warehouse area at a height, where goods are stored that will not be sold until the reasons are explained.

It is also called consumer packaging or sales packaging. It is the packaging that comes into direct contact with the product and is used when it is sold to the final consumer

1. Raw materials, work in process, finished goods and supplies required for creation of a company's goods and services; the number of units and/or value of the stock of goods held by a company. 2. When the on-hand quantity is equivalent to the perpetual balance (plus or minus the designated count tolerances). Often referred to as a percentage showing the variance between book inventory and actual count. This is a major performance metric for any organization which manages large inventories. Typical minimum and best practice averages would be 95% and 99%.

Level of packaging which will be indicated on payment basement.

Delivery of goods (or consignment of goods) to the required supply chain point exactly when they are needed. Broadly speaking, the concept of JIT is used to arrange deliveries in small batches at short intervals, which reduces stocks and therefore warehousing costs.

A set of products made up of component parts of several products.

A packaging unit that defines the number of boxes in a single layer on a pallet.

The time required to complete the order (harvest period). The time between placing the order and delivering the goods. Usually measured in days or hours

Increased goods

1. Level of a component in bill of material (BOM) during MRP processing. 2. Level in warehouse racks and shelves. Usually is limited by horizontal beams and starts with 0 (zero) or 1 from ground level.

The importance of size in loading goods in the warehouse according to height. For each region, the truck has its own dimensions during storage and transportation.

Transfer, orientation and laying pallet on dock

Warehouse cell – a part of WH rack that is limited by walls, bays, shelf or floor.

It is blocked – the status of any action in system.

Logistics labeling and barcoding process; It is done to ensure that logistics companies have their own systems, records, deductions and fast action, that the goods are not forgotten or lost, that the speed of transactions does not decrease and integration is not disrupted.

An item of any composition established for transport and/or storage, which needs to be managed through the supply chain. Palletising level (SKU, inner pack, pack, layer, pallet).

Planning, execution and control of the movement and placement of people and/or goods and of supporting activities related to such movement and placement, within a system organized to achieve specific objectives.

Company that offers a range of transport, warehousing, distribution and related services to other companies in the supply chain. Also called third party distribution companies, 3PL or contract distribution companies.

A collection of product samples or packages with the same packaging, package size, class, type, variety and size, produced under the same conditions and at the same time.

The area of warehouse location with defined space and height in what goods of one type are storaged without addressation (for example, potatoes in bulk, etc.).

Information about commercial partners and their products (goods) stored in automated systems and referred to in electronic data exchange. Master Data containing info about commercial partners (transaction participants) and their production (goods) have global numbers given to them according to GS1 Systems’s rules (“Goods Master Data” ECR-Rus Manual). Characteristics (attributes) of goods and supply chain members (companies) used in multilateral business transactions. These can be data common for all business partners (i.e.: name of goods, manufacturer, goods and packaging dimensions), as well as specific data concerning a certain trade partner – purchasing price, for example.

The vehicle used to transport goods or persons, e.g. aircraft, truck, vessel.

Associating each product with a place according to the goods structure, which allows to classify products into as many categories and subcategories as necessary.

Products and services that are ready to be offered to customers by going through various stages meet with the finally user in the stores.

Combining of two orders so that only one remains. This process also includes purging orders

The method of transport used for the conveyance of goods or persons, e.g. by rail, by road, by sea.

Goods that have a short life, for example food products.

Damage goods

1. Manufactured stocks, that are the result of decreasing of production volume or removal from manufacture. 2. Goods with expired shelf life, unsold remains of goods with a seasonal demand, etc. On these goods price can be reduced and these goods can be sold or in special cases these goods can be destroyed.

1. A request by customer for goods or services. A type of request for goods or services such as a purchase order, sales order, work order, etc. 2. Document/message by means of which a buyer initiates a transaction with a seller involving the supply of goods or services as specified, according to conditions set out in an offer, or otherwise known to the buyer.

The person who does the order control and payment control

EDI document created by a retailer or another person. According to this document retailer can return to supplier received or not received goods in case of damage, spoilage, etc.

1. Defines, for a given site network, which items can be purchased, from which supplier, for what address chain, and using what commercial contract. The logistic unit is not defined on the assortment level, consequently it is possible to buy by case, pallet, etc. 2. Goods and services aggregate, merged by need sign.

1. Agreed between retailer and producer level of packaging, in which the goods are ordered. 2. Equal to the order root plus the logistic variant plus the logistic unit for the supplier.

The process related to the movement and storage of products from the end of the production line to the end user.

A term used to refer to a situation when there is no stock available to meet a demand from a customer or production order during a transaction.

Extra goods.

An order not executed under the terms agreed with the customer.

Extra goods are located in this area if they cannot be allocated to the storage area that is used for storage of these goods.

Shipments whose weight or volume exceeds the vehicle's load capacity.

If a business or shop overstocks, it has more in stock than it needs for production or more than it is likely to sell.

The final product of the packing operation consisting of the packing and the contents, e.g. a box, carton, crate, barrel, pallet, etc.

Consumer goods that are sold in packages under a BRAND NAME.

1. PACKAGING. 2. Packing, transportation of goods, storage, unloading, etc. It is a set of tools that provide protection for. 3. Packaging design is a branch of knowledge dedicated to the development of new types of packaging.

Worker in a warehouse, whose main responsibility is goods packaging.

1. Packaging is the process of wrapping a product in packaging materials such as paper or placing it in a rigid container. 2. PACKAGING

List of goods placed in the same shipping location. The packing list is signed by the PACKER.

Transfer of a pallet from one storage place to another or its substitution due to waste or breakage.

A single or multi-level structural storage system that is utilized to support high stacking of single items or palletized loads.

The process of placing loads on pallets for storage and/or transportation purposes. The stacking process and the selection of the loading scheme can be manual or automatic.

The address of the location of the goods (a specific cell of the goods in the warehouse).

The cell address in warehouse where goods of a definite type are stored, from where the picker picks the goods according to the order (the goods are identified in the picking list using this address).

The packing list is a document prepared to show the amount of goods in each container, if the goods covered by the commercial invoice are placed in containers of various types and types and various weights.

The place from which the picker picks goods of different types (goods are linked to defined picking address).

The code that helps to select the goods. For example parts, inner packaging, boxes, rolls, pallets etc.

Usually in retail practice the goods which are stored, sold or distributed with the unit of measure

Pivot address is used for goods allocation in storage zone. Pivot address is an address from which storage algorithm finds free cells for goods allocation. Pivot address is usually the same as picking address. This helps to organize the replenishment more efficiently.

The place at which the responsibility of the carrier starts.

The place at which the responsibility of the carrier ends.

The place of goods transfer to client or another person.

The place of goods transfer to carrier.

A way of goods protecting in the process of storage, transportation, unloading in warehouse provided the goods are prepacked when loaded for sending to client.

A way of goods protecting in the process of storage, transportation, unloading in warehouse until the sending process starts.

It defines the group of shops (consumers) with identical rules of goods preparation for dispatching. E.g., if goods are storaged in a warehouse in different zones, warehouse workers can prepare them for dispatching in different ways: 1. in different pallets (every pallet is prepared in its zone); 2. in one pallet (at first goods are packed in pallet in one zone, after that this pallet is transferred to another zone and is packed with goods from that other zone).

The goods preparation path during picking goods, route according to which picker picks the goods. Preparation path includes all picking addresses on the route.

The way that is specially prepared for customers from one storage place to another (dock, place, etc.).

A list of prices for goods sold by a producer, provider of services or shop.

A group of products with similar characteristics, often used in production planning (or sales and operations planning).

A set of interrelated goods produced by a firm.

1. A document on which a sales contract can be concluded between the SUPPLIER and the buyer. 2. It is an electronic data exchange message that, when placing an order, offers the buyer to the supplier to manufacture (ship) the required quantity of products in the prescribed manner

Removing material from the dock (or other pick-up location), transporting the material to a storage area, placing the material in a staging area, and then transporting it to a specific location, recording its movement and identity of the location.

The area of warehouse location with defined space and height, where racks are located with defined goods storage addresses.

Vehicles used to lift, move, stack, rack, or otherwise manipulate loads.

see Full pallet

Realization of the order is the stage when the goods are physically transferred (handled over) from а supplier to а customer.

Document of EANCOM standard from client or supplier to consumer with conditions of goods or property when they are bought or sold.

Unloading Platform

Goods such as food that consumers use quickly after buying them and that produce low profit.

Storage zone of goods that consumers use quickly after buying them and that produce a low profit.

It is the case where the customer refuses to receive the damaged goods from the carrier.

The product, which is not good enough and will be thrown away or sold cheaply.

Released is the status of some action in a system.

A process of goods (stock number) release at a warehouse with indication of reason and its return to stock. For example, when due to untimely delivery goods are put out of sale and blocked until supplier pays penalties.

Quantity of goods in stock

The production packaging in packing in what it will be sold to consumer.

1. The process of moving or re-supplying inventory from a reserve (or upstream) storage location to a primary (or downstream) storage or picking location, or to another mode of storage in which picking is performed. 2. The process of moving/restocking inventory to meet demand.

Backup of primary address (used in emergencies)

1. The time interval between two consecutive deliveries. 2. The time between two consecutive actions to replenish the goods in the warehouse one after the other.

1. Operation of return of goods, which for some reasons did not suit the client. 2. Processes involved with returning goods from the customer to the manufacturer. Products may be returned because of performance problems or simply because the customer does not like the product.

It is a property of supplier or carrier and must be returned to supplier (carrier) in defined terms. The party that returns the packing later than agreed, will pay a fine to the owner and refund the cost of returnable packing.

Reverse logistics refers to the return of product that is damaged, faulty, received in error, excess or surplus stock, packaging.

A way of storing goods (not in pallets, by rolls).

It is a place for storage goods in Warehouse.

Routing from one storage location to another (dock, ground, etc.)

Names of goods, which can be sold in a definite network or shop. Total of goods or services characterized by their presence on shop shelves.

A WAREHOUSE ACCOUNTING DOCUMENT that records the details of the order received from the CONSUMER. It is used when paying the SHIPPING bill.

Warehouse doors, freight wagon covers, etc. A stamped seal plate of soft metal or plastic used to seal

A person who sells goods or services.

1. A SSCC is a non- significant number, which uniquely identifies individual logistics units in an unrestricted environment. A logistic unit can be any physical unit that needs to be individually identified at any stage in the supply chain. 2. Abbreviation for Serial Shipping Container Code. It is the international code consisting of 18 digits whose structure has been defined by GS1 and enabling to identify each logistic unit uniquely. When dispatch is in UCC/EAN- 128 on the logistic unit and transmitted in the dispatch advice, it allows ensuring the traceability of the products.

The extent to which demand is met by availability of product. Service level is usually expressed as a percentage and can be measured by a number of points in the supply chain, e.g. 95% service levels means that the products is available 95% of the time or 95 out of 100 customers will be able to buy the product.

Size, shelf volume,depending on volume, size of goods storaged in it.

The amount of time an item may be held in inventory before it becomes unusable.

It is the process of taking the commodities to be transported from any warehouse to the point where the departure address is determined.

It is shipped – the status of any action in system.

see Underdelivery.

Stock loss occurring in supply chain and at store through errors, theft (internal and external) or supplier fraud.

Shop, depot or any another entity which requires an individual stock

A text description of the goods in any language.

Identification, unique in system, a code of the goods.

Substitute goods, goods that serve the same purpose and in which one is absent, the other provides the same task

To divide order into separate parts during Shipment.

To divide order into separate parts.

Damage goods

It is the stacking of materials on top of each other in order to use the volume in the vertical direction.

The starting point of the person collecting the goods

The area of stock location with defined space and height where goods type is defined for transportation and storage in special zones.

A supply of goods, kept for sale by a shop or other Retailer.

The attributes of goods bearing in adjustment and information on work with the goods in a warehouse.

Paper or electronic document on each type of production that is stored in warehouse. It includes production code, address of storage cell, active stocks, supplier name, etc.

see Stock Taking.

see Stock Taking.

Amount of product in stock

A list of goods that a seller, dealer, etc. has available to sell.

see Inventory.

Product features are the features about the shape and size of the product. These features determine the storage method and location of the product.

The area in a warehouse where goods can be stored or assembled (picking/packaging).

Can be stored simultaneously in a warehouse amount of goods.

For transporting material in pallets storage device. Vehicles with at least two layers made of metal or wood. Cantilever shelves, aisle shelves etc. It is one of the most commonly used shelves.

When a company starts making or selling one product instead of another, e.g., because it is more profitable, more effective and better.

It is a company that provides goods and services.

Defined by the estimation of the supplier’s activity from the point of view of quality and their parameters (delivery in agreed terms, high goods quality, low prices, consumer demand, ready to help, etc.).

Unique identification code of the supplier’s goods.

Organization, planning, control and execution of the products flow from development and purchasing, through production and distribution, to the final customer in order to satisfy the requirements of the market cost-effectively

An amount of goods that is more than what is wanted, needed or used.

Removing goods from sale.

Logistical operation at a warehouse in taking-over area when goods returned from clients or suppliers are accepted and thereafter moved to return zone to be further delivered to the Supplier for storage, etc.

3PL, which is a logistics term, can be explained as a company outsourcing all or a certain part of the logistics and supply chain activities outside the scope of its core business to another company.

The attribute allowing the ongoing location of a shipment to be determined. The registering and tracking of parts, processes, and materials used in production, by lot or serial number.

The function of maintaining status information of goods, goods items, consignments or equipment.

It is agreed between retailer and producer packaging goods level, in which the goods are ordered, paid and delivered. For example, olive oil is sold in bottles (consumer unit), but it is ordered, paid and delivered to retailer in cartons.

A message reflecting the state of physical movement of goods at any point (time or place) in the delivery chain in the process of electronic data exchange.

See Reshipment.

The type of material used, e.g. 40 feet container, four way pallet, mafi trailer.

The type of vehicle used in the transport process, e.g. wide body, tank, truck, passenger vessel.

see Releasing.

Delivery of a part of the goods that were ordered.

Underutilization of the vehicle's load capacity

The logistic operation of getting rid of goods quickly, especially by selling large quantities.

see Shelf life.

Proving that the order is correct and acceptable.

1. SELLER 2. RETAIL 3. A vending machine is a stand-alone device used in the retail trade and is triggered when you drop a coin or otherwise. The buyer is given a small one

In VMI, the Seller (supplier) manages stock levels and availability in her customer's warehouse based on forecast demand and checks whether her goods are in the warehouses of the retail chain.

see Delivery Schedule.

It is a building to store goods. Warehouses, manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport operators, customs, etc. used by.

Storage areas, start and end zones, mass zone, rack area, common zone, private zone, mezzanine, reception docks, shipping, etc. containing warehouse areas.

The systems used in effectively managing warehouse business processes and direct warehouse activities, including receiving, putaway, picking, shipping, and inventory cycle counts. Also includes support of radio-frequency communications, allowing realtime data transfer between the system and warehouse personnel. Maximize space and minimize material handling by automating putaway processes.

It can be printed from WMS system or it can be displayed on the system screen-scheme of WH zones and zone's cells with their indication (where user can see type and quantity of goods in this area – on location map)

1. А person or company that sells goods in large quantities to business, rather then to the general public. 2. A business that does not manufacture its own products, but purchases and resells products.