LOGISTICS DICTIONARY

5S - Sense of simplifying, organizing, cleaning, preservation and participation.

ABC - Activity Based Costing or Cost-Based Activities. Accounting method that a
llows the company to acquire a better understanding of how and where to place th
eir profits. ABC or ABC classification Classification - Using the Pareto curve t
o classify products in three categories, using criteria of demand and value. Gro
up Items "A" small amount, but they represent great value. Items "B" group - the
quantity and intermediate values. Group Items "C" - large amounts, but represen
t little value. ACF - Attainable Cubic Feet or Cubic Space Allowed. Acknowledgem
ent of Receipt or Acknowledgement of Receipt - Notification related to something
received. Accuracy - The degree of the absence of error or degree of compliance
with the standard. Accuracy of inventory (as an indicator of effectiveness) - T
he quantity of items with the correct balance, divided by the number of items ch
ecked, times 100%. ADR - Articles Dangereux Route or Transport of Dangerous Good
s. AD Valorem - Rates insurance levied on certain rates of freight or customs pr
oportional to the total value of products of the transaction (Invoice). AFRMM -
Freight Surcharge for the Renewal of the Merchant Navy. AGVS - Automated Guided
Vehicle System or Automatically Guided Vehicle System. AIS - Automated Informati
on System or Automated Information. Alternate Feedstock - Stocks Supply Alternat
ive. ANSI X12 - A set of standards promulgated by the American National Standard
s Institute for use in formatting and handling of documents related to buying tr
ansmitted via EDI. APS - Advanced Planning and Scheduling Planning demand supply
, programming, advanced execution and optimization. Shipping area - is the area
demarcated in the warehouses near the ramp / loading docks, where materials will
be loaded / pre-loaded are separated and checked in order to speed up the loadi
ng operation. Area fall - is the area demarcated in the stores, usually near the
entrance, where the packaging, products and materials received are unpacked, se
parated, sorted and repackaged according to the system or the interests of wareh
ouse storage / business. Warehouse or Warehouse - Place covered, where materials
/ products are received, sorted, stored and shipped. Assemble to order - is onl
y manufactured to order. Attendance Order (as an indicator of effectiveness) - T
he quantity of requests handled promptly, divided by the total applications rece
ived, times 100%. Auto Id - Automatic Identification. AWB - Air Waybill or airwa
y bill. Backflushing or by Lower Explosion - Low in stock in the group of parts
and components used in assembly or manufacture of certain equipment or product.
Back Order - Order in arrears. Back Scheduling - Programming Retrocendente. Back
to Back - Consolidation of a single shipment in a MAWB (Master Air Waybill - Kn
owledge of Top Air Transport) covering a HAWB (House Air Waybill - Air Transport
Guide issued by a dispatcher). Backlog - Request pending.
Ferry - Boat used on rivers and canals for the transport of vehicles and people.
Snaggletooth - Expression used in road transport, which means to walk without b
eing engaged, ie in neutral gait. Barber - Name used in road transport to driver
s not skilled at driving. Bar Code - Barcode. Barge and Barge - shallow draft ve
ssel, used in rivers and channels with or without propulsion for the purpose of
transporting goods. Batch Pick - Separation in Batch. Batch Processing - Batch P
rocessing. Hitting tin - Expression used in road transport, when the truck back
empty (no return cargo). Benchmarking - Check what the leading companies in your
industry are using processes and adapt the model according to your day to day (
typical characteristics). Bill of lading - Manifesto sea. Bi-trailer or train -
is the set formed by a monolithic body with a set of at least two axles and four
wheels. It is engaged in the truck for transport, forming a set of two wagons p
ulled by one truck. It is used to transport sugar cane. B / L - Bill of Lading o
r Bill of Lading. Blocking or Block Stacking - Stacking simple without the use o
f pallet in which the pallets are stacked directly on the floor. Block Schedulin
g - Programming Blocks. Block Stacking - Stacking of pallets directly on the flo
or. Bluetooth - Wireless communication between devices. Port - left side of the
ship. Bonded Warehousing - Bonded Warehouse.€Brainstorming (brainstorming) - A
group of people having ideas about a particular issue or problem, without censor
ship, with someone encouraging to everyone and noting everything spoken. Break-B
ulk - Expression of shipping means the transport of general cargo or fractionate
d. Brokerage Houses - Companies specializing in maritime chartering broker. BTB
or B2B - Business to Business or commerce between companies. BTC or B2C - Busine
ss to Consumer e-commerce or business to consumer. Budgets - Budget. Bulk Cargo
- Cargo in bulk, ie without packaging. Bulk Carrier - Bulk carrier, ie, suitable
for the transportation of bulk cargoes. Bulk Container - bulk container, or sui
table for the transportation of bulk cargoes. Bulk Storage - Storage of bulk. Bu
siness Intelligence - Collection of software that helps in strategic decisions.
Cabotage - navigation home (the coast of the country). Derrick - equipment used
in ports to lift heavy loads or materials in pieces, and props, which consists o
f three united at the top where they receive a pulley through which the cable. C
alado - Express shipping, which means depth that each ship is submerged in water
. Technically it is the distance from the water depth to the keel of the ship. T
rucks on the shelf - Expression used in road transport, which means when there i
s idle capacity in the use of trucks, idling at the disposal of any use. THC - t
he service is generally used in ports and stations / terminals
rail, where independent professionals, connected to unions or private companies
perform the job of loading / unloading, handling and storage charges. Cart chest
- is a closed trailer. Isothermal cart - a trailer is closed, with thermal insu
lation in its walls, which keeps the temperature of the load. Wagoner - Is the d
river who drives his own car (truck) in the case of road transport. Cascading Yi
eld Loss or accumulation of income losses - when there is loss of income in many
operations and / or tasks. Mechanical horse - is the set formed by monolithic c
abin, engine and traction wheels of the truck. Can be engaged in various types o
f trailers and semi-trailers for transport. CEO - Chief Executive Operation. SPC
- Statistical Process Control. CFR - Cost and Freight or Cost and Freight. Plat
e - is the name given to an independent professional who is hired by the truck d
river to the loading or unloading of cargo at origin or destination. Chata - Bar
ge wide and shallow. Whips - These are the cables that connect between the mecha
nical horse and cart for the passage of electrical wires (light the torch, light
brake and reverse light and the plate of the vehicle) and fluids (oil) drive th
e brakes. CIF - Cost, Insurance and Freight and Cost, Insurance and Freight. In
this case, the material quoted has everything built into the price, ie it is lan
ded. CIM - Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Computer Integrated Manufacturi
ng with. CIP - Cariage and Insurance Paid To and Carriage and Insurance Paid No
later than Cluster - are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies,
operating in a sector with specialized suppliers, service providers and associat
ed institutions. Coach - Facilitator, Trainer; entity (person, team, department,
company, etc.). Aggregator that acts as the capabilities of each element of the
chain (team, department, company, etc.).. Code Stitching - Technology to deciph
er and reconstruct the damaged bar codes or truncated. Train - Set of vehicles t
hat go together to the same destination. Used mainly for security reasons. Conta
iner - Equipment metal shaped like a large box, which serves to transport variou
s materials, thus making a unitization of loads, to which they are packed inside
, do not suffer damage during transit and not in the case of transhipment to oth
er modal. They are reusable and have four main sizes of 30, 25, 20 and 10 tonnes
. Deck - the first area covered the ship. Core Business - Relative to their own
business or expertise in deal making. Cost Drivers - Drivers of Cost Factors. CP
C - Planning Collaboration Commerce. CPFR - Collaborative Planning, Forecasting
and Replenishment and Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment. CPM
- Critical Path Method and Critical Path Method. CPT - Cariage Paid To Carriage
Paid No later than or CRM - Customer Relationship Management or Management or Cu
stomer Relationship Marketing One to One Cross Docking - is an operation of rapi
d movement of finished products for delivery between suppliers and customers.€A
lready arrived and exits (without overflow storage).
CRP - Continuous Replenishment Process or Continuous Replenishment Program. CTD
- Combined Transport Document or Combined Transport Document. CTI - Computer Tel
ephony Integrated or Integrated System and Computer Telephony. Cubing or cubage
- Volume cubic available to store or transport. Calculate the cubic meter by mul
tiplying the length by the width and height. Curve ABC - Demo graphic axes of va
lues and quantities, as regards the materials divided into three groups accordin
g to their values of price / cost and quantities, where material class "A" repre
sent the minority and the majority of the total value total, class "C" most of t
he total quantity and total value of the minority and "B" values and intermediat
e quantities. Cost of Absence or Stockout Cost - the cost is considered by the l
ack of an item, for lack of stock, when it receives a request. This cost can be
varied due to losing a total or partial application, the cost to replace on an u
rgent basis or cost of changing the entire production schedule to make it. Obsol
escence Obsolescence Cost or Cost - Is the cost of maintaining obsolete items in
stock or scrapped. Usually the components are obsolete items of equipment or ma
chinery off the manufacturing line. Opportunity Cost and Opportunity Cost - The
rate of return of invested capital that a company or person expects to be referr
ing to an investment different from the usual or standard you use. Cost of Capit
al Stock (in-process materials) - is the average stock in process, sometimes the
cost of capital, divided by net operating revenue times 100%. Cost of Capital s
tock (raw materials) - is the average stock of raw materials, times the capital
cost divided by net operating revenue, times 100%. Cost of Capital Stock (finish
ed products) - The average value of finished goods inventory, times the capital
cost divided by net operating revenue times 100%. Cost of the Order or Order Cos
t - the cost is basically considered adding operations to make the request to Sh
opping, monitor your care, do you receive, inspect, upon arrival, move it intern
ally and make your payment. Logistics cost - is the sum of the cost of transport
, storage cost and the cost of holding inventory. DAF - Delivered At Frontier, o
r Delivered at Frontier. Data mining - Data Mining. Data Warehouse - Data Wareho
using. Door to Door or DDP - Delivered Duty Paid or Delivered Rates Paid. DDU -
Delivered Duty Unpaid and Delivered without Fees Paid. Demand Chain Management -
Demand Chain Management. Demurrage and demurrage - Fine determined by contract,
to be paid by the contractor of a vessel, if it takes more than the agreed port
of loading or unloading. DEQ - Delivered Ex Quay or delivery at the wharf. The
seller delivers the goods on the quay of the port of destination. DES - Delivere
d Ex Ship in SHIP or Vessel. Or Readiness Despatch - Awards given in the contrac
t, the contractor is entitled to a vessel, where it remains less time than the a
greed port of loading or unloading. DFM - Design for Manufacturing or Design for
Manufacturing. Dock or Docks - is the place where goods are intermediate betwee
n dispatch and transport (modal number) in order to facilitate and streamline th
e operation of loading and unloading. Dolly or Romeo and Juliet - A trailer with
a fifth wheel, used to convert a semi-trailer in tow. It is widely used for tra
nsporting sugar cane.
DPS - Digital Picking System. Dredging - Services excavation in access channels
and berthing areas of the ports to maintain or increase the depth. Draw-back - i
nvolves the importation of components, without paying taxes (IPI, ICMS, Freight
Surcharge for the Renewal of the Merchant Marine and Tax Services provided by St
ate Transport), linked to an export commitment. DRP - Distribution Resource Plan
ning and Distribution Resource Planning. DES - Simplified Export Declaration. EA
DI - Customs Station Interior. EAV - Engineering and Value Analysis. ECR - Effic
ient Consumer Response and Efficient Consumer Response. EDI - Electronic Data In
terchange or Electronic Data Interchange. ELQ - Economic Logistic Quantity or Qu
antity Logistics Economics. It is the amount that minimizes the cost of logistic
s. Packaging or Package - Wrap appropriate, applied directly to the product for
its protection and preservation to the consumer / end use. Forklift or Fork Lift
Truck - Equipment used in order to stack and move loads in different environmen
ts. Empowerment - Empowering the group / team.€Ending Inventory - Inventory Fin
al. OGS - Electric Overhead Monorail or Aerial Monotrole Electrified. EOQ - Econ
omic Order Quantity or Lot Cheap. Ergonomics - The science that studies the adap
tation of the environment to measures of the human body, thus considering the pe
rfect interaction between employees and the working environment such as light, h
eat, noise, odors, and equipment and tools used. ERP - Enterprise Resource Plann
ing Resource Planning or Business. Starboard - Right side of the ship. Steve - E
mployee who works at the Docks and decarga cargo ships. Inventory Protection or
Hedge Inventory - It is done when an exception is provided for development that
can endanger the normal supply of inventory and generate a fall in output and /
or sales. They are usually strikes, problems with new legislation, the period of
negotiating new price list, etc.. Safety Stock and Safety Stock - Quantity held
in stock to supply at times when demand is higher than expected and / or when t
o replenish stock or supply of raw material to manufacture it is smaller than ex
pected. Stock in transit - Refers to the time at which the goods remain in trans
port vehicles for their delivery. Stocks Inactive - Refers to items that are obs
olete or do not have output in recent times. This time can vary, as determined b
y the administrator of the stock itself. Maximum stock - Refers to the quantity
determined for the occurrence of the drive stop new requests, for reasons of spa
ce or financial. Average Inventory - Refers to the quantity determined, consider
ing half the normal lot more safety stock. Low stock - Refers to the quantity de
termined for the occurrence of the drive request a purchase application. Stocks
Lung - Refers to the quantity determined and strategically, which has not yet be
en processed. It can be raw materials or semi-finished products. Stocks Regulato
r - It is usually used by companies with multiple units / branches, where one of
the units has increased inventory to meet potential shortages in other units. S
easonal inventory - Refers to the quantity determined to anticipate the increase
d demand which is expected to occur in the future, causing the
production or consumption are not harmed and have a regularity. E-Procurement -
Process of listing price, buying and selling online. ETA - Express shipping, whi
ch means days of the mooring (arrival). ETS - Express shipping, which means the
day of departure (sail). EVA - Economic Value Added and Economic Value Added. FA
S - Free Alongside Ship or Free Alongside Ship. The seller delivers the goods to
the buyer alongside the vessel at the port of embarkation. FCA - Free Carrier o
r Carrier free. The seller is exempt from liability, when it delivers the goods
to the agent appointed by the buyer or the carrier. FCL - Full Container Load Fu
ll Container or. FCR - Forwarder Certificate of Receipt or Certificate of Receip
t Agent Transport. FCS - Finite Capacity Schedule or Finite Capacity Scheduling.
Feeder Service - maritime power port hub or distribution of concentrated loads
on it. The term feeder can also refer to a secondary port (feeder or distributor
) on a given route. It is worth mentioning that a port can be hub for certain sh
ipping routes and feeder for others. Feeder Ship - Ships from supply. FEFO - Fir
st-Expire, First Out or First of Vence is the first out. It serves to manage the
storage and shipment of goods from stock according to the expiry date. FIFO - F
irst-In, First Out or First and Enter is the first out (FIFO). FIO - Free In and
Out or exempted from fees for boarding and disembarking. Shipping costs are the
exporter and importer of landing. No shipowner's liability. FMEA - Failure Mode
Analysis and Effect. FOB - Free On Board, or Price without Shipping Included (p
ut on board). FOB has some variations. Can be FOB Factory, where the material ha
s to be removed and FOB City, where a vendor puts the material into a carrier ch
osen by the customer. Food Town - the place that brings together several supplie
rs from the same client in common. Forecasting - weather forecasts. Fulfillment
- to pay on time and on schedule. The set of operations and activities from rece
ipt of an application until its delivery. Bottleneck or Bottleneck - Installatio
n, function, department or feature that prevents the production because its capa
city is less than or equal to demand. EDM - Electronic Document Management. Inve
ntory turnover - annual demand divided by average inventory monthly.€Inventory
Turnover - net operating income divided by average balance of inventory (sometim
es). GPS - Global Positioning System or Global Positioning System. Was developed
by the U.S. armed forces and consists of a set of 24 satellites that cover the
Earth's orbit every 12 hours. This system allows through electronic devices, cal
led GPS Receivers (GPS), can be converted signals from positioning satellites, a
llowing the location of any object on the globe with an accuracy of around 10 me
ters. Hinterland - is the potential generator of cargo from the port or its area
of influence land. The Hinterland basically depends on the development potentia
l of the region in which the port is located and the costs of inland transport a
nd feeder. Housekeeping - technique for initiating and sustaining the processes
of Total Quality and Productivity in a company. HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
. Hub - the central point to collect, sort and distribute to a particular area o
r
specific region. IBC - Intermediate Bulk Container or Contenedor for Intermediat
e Bulk. Incoterms - acronym that identifies the 13 terms that standardize the la
nguage used in the export market and import. Rate flexibility - represents the r
atio between the average production batch and the mean batch delivery. ISO - Int
ernational Standards Organization. Just in Time or JIT - is to meet the internal
or external customer at the exact moment of their need, with the quantities req
uired for the operation / production, thus avoiding the maintenance of larger in
ventories. Kaizen - continuous improvement process, with common sense and low in
vestment. Kanban - Japanese technique card, which provides an inventory reductio
n, optimization of production flow, reducing losses and increasing flexibility.
KLT - Klein or Lagerung und Transport Packaging and Transport of Small Component
s. Ballast - expression of shipping, which means water that is put on hold to gi
ve weight and balance to the vessel when it is unloaded. Layday or Laytime - the
ship's stay in port, which means the period for the transaction happen (dock, l
oad and sail). Lead Time - Time resupply. It's Time to Buy More Time transportat
ion. Lean Manufacturing - Lean production or lean manufacturing. Reverse Auction
online - consists in scoring with suppliers, a time when particular Internet ad
dress to which they provide to bid on products previously reported by the reques
ter. Who has the best trading conditions will gain the request. Omnidirectional
reading - Technology that enables the reading of bar codes in any position, even
difficult to read. LLP - Leading Logistics Provider or Home Logistics Services
Provider. Logistics (1) - Is the system of managing any business in an integrate
d and strategic planning and coordinating all activities, optimizing all availab
le resources in order to gain the overall process towards operational and financ
ial. (Definition of Verlangieri Marcos Valle, director of the Log Tab). Logistic
s (2) - The process of planning, implementing and controlling efficient, cost co
rrect, the flow and storage of raw materials and inventory in production and fin
ished products, and information relating to these activities, from the point of
origin to the point of consumption to meet customer requirements. (Definition of
Council of Logistics Management). Logistics (3) - Among the Greeks, art of calc
ulation or arithmetic applied. Part of the art military on troop transport and s
upply operations. Symbolic logic, whose principles are those of formal logic, an
d employing methods and algebraic symbols. (Definitions of the Dictionary of Con
temporary Portuguese Aulete Caldas). Logistics (4) - French Logistique, part of
the art of war that deals with planning and carrying out design and development,
acquisition, storage, transmission, distribution, repair, maintenance and dispo
sal of material (for operational and administrative); Recruitment , incorporatio
n, education and training, assignment, transportation, welfare, evacuation and h
ospitalization and separation of personnel, acquisition or construction, repair,
maintenance and operation of facilities and supplies to help the performance of
any military function; contract or services . (In, Ferreira, Aurelio Buarque de
Hollanda, New Dictionary of Portuguese Language, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro, N
ova Fronteira, 1986, p. 1045). Logistics Business - It's all moving and storage
activities,€that facilitate the flow of goods from point of purchase of raw mat
erial to the point of final consumption, as well as information flows that
place the product in motion, with the purpose of providing appropriate service l
evels to customers at a reasonable cost. (Definition of Ronald H. Ballou in his
book "Business Logistics"). Reverse or Reverse Logistics - The market is seen as
the path that takes the package upon delivery of materials, the effect of recyc
ling them. Never going back to the source. Many professionals also use this term
to consider the reverse path made for the delivery, returning to the origin, bu
t now only with the packaging. In this case, these are reusable or returnable pa
ckaging, which are more expensive and specific / own to package certain material
s. Occurs much in the automotive sector for transportation, eg bumpers, panels,
etc.. Economic lot or batch of minimal cost - whereas to evaluate the total expe
nse of purchasing a product or group of products is necessary to determine the a
cquisition cost, transportation cost and maintenance cost of stock, and that the
larger the quantity purchased lower the product price and transport and the gre
ater the cost of maintaining the stock, is to check through arrangements simulat
ion, which is buying the lot that has the lowest total cost. Make to order - pro
duction as requested. Make to stock - against manufacturing demand forecast. Man
icaca - Name used in aviation for pilots not skillful in conducting the aircraft
. Market Share - Market Share of mouthful. Memory Card - Card designed to store
information like the memory of the equipment. MES - Manufacturing Execution Syst
ems and Integrated Systems Production Control. Milk Run - is in search of the pr
oduct (s) (s) directly next to (s) supplier (s) on a scheduled basis, to meet th
eir need for supplies. ML - Mile Road. Modal - are the types / modes of transpor
t available. They are rail (made by railroads), road (made by highway), waterbor
ne (made by water), pipelines (made by pipelines) and Airway (done air). MPS - M
aster Production Planning. TPM or TPM - Total Productive Maintenance. MRP - Mate
rial Requirements Planning or Material Requirements Planning. MRPII - Manufactur
ing Resources Planning or Manufacturing Resource Planning. III MRP - MRP II is i
n conjunction with the Kanban. Logistic Service Level - This refers specifically
to the chain of activities that meet the sales, usually starting at the receipt
of the request and ending in delivery of product to the customer and, in some c
ases, continuing with services or maintenance of equipment or other types of tec
hnical support. (Definition Warren Blanding). NM - nautical miles. NVOCC Operato
r - Maritime Transport Ship Without. Inventory obsolescence (as an indicator of
effectiveness) - is the amount of obsolete items, divided by the total quantity
of items, times 100%. Odometer - Instrument used to indicate the distance travel
ed. OTM - Multimodal Transport Operator. Outsourcing - Providers of services or
outsourcing. Parcerização - process of mutual knowledge and acceptance, whereb
y the two companies must pass in order to be truly integrated, seeking the same
goals. Pelago - Depth of sea, sea. PCM - Planning and Control of Materials. PCP
- Planning and Production Control.
Minimum Order - many companies set a minimum lot for accepting a purchase order,
seeking economies of scale for the service. This way have lower costs of proces
sing applications, as to meet the same turnover would require a larger number of
requests. PEPS - is the nomenclature for the method of storage, in which the pr
oduct is the first to enter the stock is the First Out or First-In First-Out (FI
FO). PERT - Project Evaluation and Review Technique or Technical Evaluation and
Project Review. Pick and Pack - separate the materials and labeling, packaging,
etc.. Poka-Yoke - simple methods, which serve as evidence of flaws in the proces
s. Stern - the rear of the ship. Postponement - delaying the finalization of the
product to actually receive the request customized. PPCP - Planning, Programmin
g and Production Control. Bow - the front of the ship. Product Logistics - What
a company offers to the customer's satisfaction with their product. If the produ
ct is some kind of service, it will consist of intangibles such as convenience,
quality and distinction. However, if the product is a physical asset, it also ha
s physical attributes such as weight, volume and shape, which influences the cos
t of logistics. (Definition of Ronald H.€Ballou). Project team - Task Force. Pr
oposal - A document by which the supplier makes official its commercial and tech
nical services and / or products to the requester. Lung - Generally used in fact
ories, serves to protect the activities of production, based on time and not eno
ugh to stop the continuous flow of statistics and considering variables of deman
ds, or even operational bottlenecks. QR - Quick Response. Bi-trailer or train -
is the set formed by a monolithic body with a set of at least two axles and four
wheels. It is engaged in the truck for transport, forming a set of two wagons p
ulled by one truck. It is used to transport sugar cane. Trimming - an expression
used in ports, which characterizes the movement of cargo between courtyards, ma
de by tractors and / or other handling equipment. REDEX - Recinto Special Cleara
nce of Export. RFDC - Radiofrequency Data Colection or Radio Frequency Data Coll
ection. RFID - Radio Frequency Identification Data. Road railer - trailer bimoda
l, that to be disengaged from the mechanical horse, is engaged on a bogie and ra
il travel on the rails. Rough Cut - rough cut. SAC or Customer Service - Custome
r Service Customer or Client. Available balance - is the physical quantity in st
ock, lessening the amount already in stock that are reserved. Scanner - Device t
hat converts electronic system or through optical reading, information coded in
alphanumeric or symbolization bars. SCOR - Supply Chain Operation Reference Mode
l or Model of the Supply Chain Operations. It was believed by the Supply Chain C
ouncil (USA) aiming to standardize the description of the processes in the suppl
y chain. Semi-trailer - is the set formed by a monolithic body with one axle and
wheels. It is engaged in the mechanical horse or tractor for transportation, or
is being used as a trailer, when hitched to a dolly. It is used to transport su
gar cane. Set-up - time between the shutdown of a production machine, the exchan
ge of their tools and the return of their production. Ship Broker - Agent Sea.
Shipping and Forwarding - Department of a company in possession of the invoice o
r a pre-invoice identifies, sorts, packs, weighs (if necessary) and loads the ma
terials and transport vehicles. Shipping Area - Area Expedition. Sidetrack or al
ternative path - is when using a route different from the usual or expected, for
various reasons (bad traffic, safety, etc.).. Sider - body type truck, which ha
s retractable canvas on its sides. SKU - Stock Keeping Unit, or Stock Keeping Un
it. Designates the different items of stock. SLM - Strategic Logistics Managemen
t, or Strategic Logistics Management. Surcharge and Surcharge - Charge levied in
addition to normal freight. Stock options - Action Program - an incentive that
allows employees to buy shares of the company they work for a price below the ma
rket. STV - Transfer Vehicle Sorted. Supply Chain Management - Managing Supply C
hain. Tachograph - An instrument designed to record movements or velocities; tac
hometer register. Tachometer - A device that serves to measure the number of rot
ations and thus the speed of machinery or vehicles, even if the tachometer. Tach
ometer - Same as tachometer. Tara - Weight of an intermodal transport unit or ve
hicle without charge. When you weigh the total subtract the tare, coming so the
weight of the load. Fee Amount Released or Released-Value Rates - Fee based on v
alue of transportation. Team Building - Group dynamics in the outer area, where
participants will be exposed to various challenging physical tasks, which are co
mparative examples of the problems of day-to-day business. Intends to make an in
tegrated team. Buy Time - This is the period between the date of the requisition
of the material until the closing date of the application. Time Transport - is
the period between the date of delivery of material until the arrival of it to t
he requester (destination). Time resupply - is the sum of Time to Purchase and T
ime Transportation. TEU - Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit. Standard size intermodal
container of 20 feet. Time to Market or Time to Market - This is the time requir
ed to design, approve, build and deliver a product. TKU - Tons per km helpful. T
MS - Transportation Management Systems and Transportation Management Systems. To
co - Truck that has the axle in the truck, ie, not double. Touch Screen - Touch
screen. TQM - Total Quality Management. TPA - temporary workers.€Trade-off or c
ompensation - In its basic form, the result incur increased costs in a particula
r area in order to obtain a great advantage over the other (in terms of increase
d income and profit). Transshipment or Transhipment - Transferring goods / produ
cts from one to another means of transport or vehicle during the course of the h
andover operation. Intermodal Transport - is the integration of services from mo
re than one mode of transport, with the issuance of separate documents, where ea
ch carrier assumes responsibility for transportation. Are used to traverse the g
iven load path between the sender and addressee, among the various modes availab
le with the responsibility of the shipper. Multimodal Transport - is the integra
tion of services from more than one mode of transport for which a cargo traverse
the path between the
sender and addressee, existing between the various modes, and issued only one bi
ll of lading the sole responsible for transport, which is the OTM - Multimodal T
ransport Operator. Treminhões - is the set formed by an ordinary truck or mecha
nical horse more semi-trailer and two trailers hitched on, thus forming a set of
three wagons pulled by one truck. It is used to transport sugar cane. Trick - i
s a motorized hang glider that is equipped with wheels and / or floats and seats
with fiberglass. Truck - Truck has dual axle in the truck, ie, two axes are com
bined. The goal is to hold more weight and provide better performance to the veh
icle. LIFO - is the nomenclature for the method of storage, in which the product
is the last to enter the stock is the First Out. Umland - It is understood by p
hysical port, or the port itself, its facilities, tariffs and quality of service
s it provides. Uniqueness - the expression used on the organization / company th
at is very difficult to be copied. Unitization - is adding several smaller packa
ges or containers in a cargo unit higher. UPC - Universal Product Code or Univer
sal Product Code. VAN - Value Added Network. Crosswind - Expression used in air
transport, which means when the wind is in the sense of direction to the side of
the aircraft, both in cruise flight and for landing / takeoff. VMI - Vendor Man
aged Inventory or vendor managed inventory. Vorlande - means the greater or less
er distance from a port in relation to major shipping routes or shipping their a
rea and also influence the choice of the owner. VUC - Urban Vehicle Load. XML -
eXtensible Markup Language. WCS - Warehouse Control Systems or Control Systems W
arehouse. Wharfage and berthing rate - The rate charged by the administration of
a port for using it in transactions involving berthing, loading, unloading and
storage in bonded warehouses and docks to port. Wireless - wireless access syste
m. WMS - Warehouse Management Systems and Warehouse Management Systems. Workflow
- Process by which information flows throughout the organization, quickly and o
rganized along the following pre-established procedure. WWW - World Wide Web Fre
e Trade Zone or Free Trade Zone - is an area (local region or a state or country
) where the goods or materials shall be exempt from taxes and import tariffs, wi
th the consent of the government tax authorities.