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- A/R
- ABC Analysis
- ABC Classification
- ABC Costing
- ABC Inventory Control
- ABC Model
- ABC System
- ABI
- ABM
- Abnormal Demand
- ABP
- Absorption Costing
- Accelerated Commercial Release Operations Support System
- Acceptable Quality Level
- Acceptable Sampling Plan
- Acceptance Number
- Acceptance Sampling
- Accessibility
- Accessorial Charges
- Accountability
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Accreditation
- Accredited Standards Committee
- Accumulation Bin
- Accuracy
- ACD
- Acknowledgement
- Acquisition Cost
- Action Message
- Active Stock
- Activity
- Activity Analysis
- Activity Driver
- Activity Level
- Activity Ratio
- Activity-Based Budgeting
- Activity-Based Costing
- Activity-Based Costing Model
- Activity-Based Costing System
- Activity-Based Management
- Activity-Based Planning
- Actual Cost System
- Actual Costs
- Actual Demand
- Actual to Theoretical Cycle Time
- Actual Valuation
- Ad Valorem Duty
- Adjustments
- Administrative Monetary Penalty System
- Advance Material Request
- Advanced Planning and Scheduling
- Advanced Shipment Notice (ASN)
- Advice of Shipment
- AEO
- After-Sale Service
- Agency Tariff
- Agent
- Agglomeration
- Aggregate Forecast
- Aggregate Planning
- Aggregate Tender Rate
- Agility
- Air Cargo
- Air Cargo Agent
- Air Cargo Containers
- Air Carrier
- Air Freight
- Air Freight Cost
- Air Freight Forwarder
- Air Taxi
- Air Transport Association of America
- Air Waybill
- Airport and Airway Trust Fund
- Alert
- Algorithm
- All Risk Insurance
- All Water
- All-Cargo Aircraft
- All-Cargo Carrier
- Allocation
- Alongside
- American National Standards Institute
- American Society for Quality
- American Society of Transportation & Logistics
- American Trucking Associations
- American Waterway Operators
- Amtrak
- ANSI
- Anti-Dumping Duty
- Any-Quantity
- Application Programming Interface
- AQL
- Arrival Notice
- Artificial Intelligence
- AS/RS
- ASN
- Assemble to Order
- Assembly
- Assignment
- ATA
- ATD
- ATFI
- ATP
- Attributes
- Audit
- Audit Trail
- Auditability
- Auditing
- Authority
- AutoID
- Automated Broker Interface
- Automated Call Distribution
- Automated Guided Vehicle System
- Automated Order Fulfillment
- Automated Storage/Retrieval System
- Autonomous car
- Available to Promise
- Average Cost
- Aviation and Transportation Security Act
- AWB
- Axle Load
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- B/L
- B2B
- B2C
- Back Order
- Backhaul
- Backorder
- Backsourcing
- Balance of Trade
- Balanced Scorecard
- Bale
- Bar Code
- Bar Code Scanner
- Bar Coding
- Barge
- Barrier to Entry
- Barter
- Base Currency
- Basing-Point Pricing
- Batch Picking
- Benchmarking
- Beneficial Ownership
- Benefit-Cost Ratio
- Best Practice
- Bilateral Contract
- Bill of Activities
- Bill of Lading
- Bill of Lading Number
- Bill of Material
- Bill of Material Accuracy
- Bill of Resources
- Billed Weight or Billable Weight
- Billing
- Bin Center
- Binder
- Blanket Order
- Blanket Purchase Order
- Blanket Rate
- Blanket Release
- Blanket Wrap
- Bleeding Edge
- Blind Shipment
- Blocking and Bracing
- Blow Through
- Bogie
- BOL
- BOM
- Bonded
- Bonded Warehouse
- Bonded warehousing
- Bookable Leg
- Booking
- Booking Number
- Bottleneck
- Boxcar
- BPM
- BPO
- BPR
- Bracing
- Bracketed Recall
- Branding
- Break Bulk Cargo
- Break Bulk Vessel
- Break-Bulk
- Break-Even Point
- Breakbulk
- Broker
- Brokerage License
- Bucketed System
- Buffer
- Buffer Management
- Buffer Stock
- Build to Inventory
- Build to Order
- Build to Stock
- Bulk Area
- Bulk Cargo
- Bulk Carrier
- Bulk Freight
- Bullwhip Effect
- Bundle
- Bundling
- Burn Rate
- Business Application
- Business Continuity Plan
- Business Logistics
- Business Performance Measurement
- Business Plan
- Business Process Outsourcing
- Business Process Reengineering
- Business Unit
- Business-to-Business
- Business-to-Consumer
- Buyer
- Buyer Behavior
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- C&F
- Cab Extenders
- Cabotage
- CAD
- CADEX
- CAE
- CAF
- Cage
- Caged
- Calendar Days
- Call Center
- Can-Order Point
- Capacity
- Capacity Management
- Capacity Planning
- CAPEX
- Capital
- CAPSTAN
- CARAT
- Cargo
- Cargo Manifest
- Carload
- Carmack Amendment
- Carnet
- Carousel
- Carriage
- Carrier
- Carrier Assets
- Carrier Certificate and Release Order
- Carrier Liability
- Cartage
- Cartage Agent
- Cartel
- Carton Flow Rack
- Case Picking
- Cash Against Documents
- Cash Conversion Cycle
- Cash In Advance
- Cash with Order
- Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time
- Catalog Channel
- Category Management
- Cause-and-Effect Diagram
- CBT
- CELL
- Center-of-Gravity Approach
- Central Dispatching
- Centralized Authority
- Centralized Inventory Control
- Certificate of Compliance
- Certificate of Insurance
- Certificate of Manufacture
- Certificate of Origin
- Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
- Certificated Carrier
- Certified Supplier
- CFS
- CFS/CFS
- Chain of Customers
- Change Management
- Change Order
- Changeover
- Channel
- Channel Conflict
- Channel Partners
- Channels of Distribution
- Chargeable Weight
- Charging Area
- Charter Service
- Chassis
- Chassis for Containers
- Chock
- CI
- CIA
- CIF
- City Driver
- Civil Aeronautics Board
- CL
- Claim
- Class 1 Railroad
- Class I Carrier
- Class II Carrier
- Class III Carrier
- Class Rates
- Classification
- Classification yard
- Clean Bill of Lading
- Clearance
- Clearinghouse
- CLM
- Closed Loop MRP
- CMI
- CO
- Co-Destiny
- Co-Managed Inventory
- Co-Packer
- CO2
- Coastal Carriers
- COD
- Code
- Code 128
- Codifying
- COFC
- COGS
- Cold chain
- Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment
- Collect Freight
- Collect Shipment
- Collective Paper
- Combi Aircraft
- Combined Lead Time
- Commercial Invoice
- Commercial zone
- Committed Capability
- Committee of American Steamship Lines
- Commodities
- Commodities Clause
- Commodity Buying
- Commodity Code
- Commodity Procurement Strategy
- Commodity Rate
- Common Carrier
- Common Carrier Duties
- Common Cost
- Commuter
- Company Culture
- Comparative Advantage
- Competitive Advantage
- Competitive Benchmarking
- Competitive Bid
- Complete and On-Time Delivery
- Complete Manufacture to Ship Time
- Compliance
- Component
- Computer-Aided Engineering
- Computer-Based Training
- Concealed Damage
- Conference
- Conference Carrier
- Configuration
- Configure/Package to Order
- Confirmation
- Confirmed Letter of Credit
- Confirming Order
- Conformance
- Conrail
- Consign
- Consignee
- Consignment
- Consignment Inventory
- Consignor
- Consolidation
- Consolidation Point
- Consolidator
- Consolidator's Bill of Lading
- Consortium
- Constraint
- Consul
- Consular Declaration
- Consular Documents
- Consular Invoice
- Consumer-Centric Database
- Consumption Entry
- Container
- Container Chassis
- Container Depot
- Container Freight Station
- Container Freight Station Charge
- Container Freight Station to Container Freight Station
- Container I.D.
- Container on Flat Car
- Container Terminal
- Container Vessel
- Container Yard
- Container Yard to Container Yard
- Containerization
- Contingency Planning
- Continuous Flow Distribution
- Continuous Improvement
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Continuous Replenishment
- Continuous Replenishment Planning
- Continuous-Flow, Fixed-Path Equipment
- Contract
- Contract Administration
- Contract Carrier
- Contract of Affreightment
- Contribution
- Contribution Margin
- Controlled Access
- Conveyance
- Conveyor
- Cooperative Associations
- Coordinated Transportation
- CORBA
- Core Competency
- Core Process
- Cost Accounting
- Cost Allocation
- Cost and Freight
- Cost Center
- Cost Driver
- Cost Driver Analysis
- Cost Element
- Cost Management
- Cost of Capital
- Cost of Lost Sales
- Cost Trade-Off
- Cost Variance
- Cost-of-Goods Sold
- Cost–benefit Analysis
- Cost, Insurance, Freight
- COTD
- Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
- Countertrade
- Countervailing Duties
- Country of Destination
- Country of Origin
- Courier Service
- CPFR
- CPI
- Crane
- Credit Level
- Credit Terms
- Critical Differentiators
- Critical Success Factor
- Critical Value Analysis
- CRM
- Cross Docking
- Cross Sell
- Cross Shipment
- Cross-Town
- Crossdock
- CRP
- CSCMP
- CSF
- CSG
- CSR
- Cubage
- Cube Out
- Cube Utilization
- Cubic Capacity
- Cubic Space
- Cumulative Lead Time
- Cumulative Source/Make Cycle Time
- Currency Adjustment Factor
- Customer
- Customer Acquisition or Retention
- Customer Driven
- Customer Facing
- Customer integration
- Customer Interaction Center
- Customer Order
- Customer Profitability
- Customer Relationship Management
- Customer Returns
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer Service
- Customer Service Representative
- Customer-Supplier Partnership
- Customer/Order Fulfillment Process
- Customization
- Customs
- Customs Automated Data Exchange System
- Customs Broker
- Customs Clearance
- Customs Declaration
- Customs House Broker
- Customs Invoice
- Customs Tariff
- Customs Value
- CWO
- CWT
- CY/CY
- Cycle Inventory
- Cycle Time
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- Damage Claim
- Dangerous Goods
- Dashboard
- Data Dictionary
- Data Interchange Standards Association
- Data Mining
- Data synchronization
- Data Warehouse
- Database
- Date Code
- Days of Supply
- DC
- DDP
- DDU
- Dead on Arrival
- Deadhead
- Deadweight Tons
- Decentralized Authority
- Decision Support System
- Declaration of Dangerous Goods
- Declared Value
- Declared Value for Carriage
- Deconsolidator
- Dedicated Contract Carriage
- Defective goods inventory
- Deferred Air Freight
- Delivered/Duty Paid
- Delivery Appointment
- Delivery Instructions
- Delivery Order
- Delivery Performance to Commit Date
- Delivery Performance to Request Date
- Delivery Receipt
- Delivery-Duty-Paid
- Delta Nu Alpha
- Demand Chain Management
- Demand Planning Systems
- Demand Pull
- Demand Side Analysis
- Demand Signal
- Demand Supply Balancing
- Deming Circle
- Demographic Segmentation
- Demurrage
- Denied Party Listing
- Density
- Density rate
- Deregulation
- Derived demand
- Design for Manufacture/Assembly
- Design of Experiments
- Destination
- Destock
- Detention
- Devanning
- DFMA
- DFZ
- Differential
- Digitalisation
- Dimensional Weight
- Direct Channel
- Direct Cost
- Direct Product Profitability
- Direct Production Material
- Direct Retail Locations
- Direct Store Delivery
- Direct-to-Store
- DISA
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Discharge Port
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Disintermediation
- Dispatch
- Dispatching
- Distributed Inventory
- Distribution
- Distribution Center
- Distribution Channel
- Distribution Channel Management
- Distribution Planning
- Distribution Requirements Planning
- Distribution Resource Planning
- Distribution Warehouse
- Distributor
- Diversion
- DOA
- Dock Receipt
- Dock to Dock
- Documentation
- DOE
- Domestic Trunk Line Carrier
- Door to Door
- Door to Port
- Double Bottoms
- Double-Pallet Jack
- Doubles
- Download
- Downstream
- DPL
- Drawback
- Drayage
- Drayage Firms
- Driverless car
- Driving Time Regulations
- Drop
- Drop Ship
- DRP
- DRP II
- Drum-Buffer-Rope
- DSD
- DSS
- DTS
- Dual Operation
- Dual rate system
- Dumping
- Dunnage
- DUNS Number
- Durable Goods
- Duty
- Duty Drawback
- Duty Free Zone
- Dynamic Process Control
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- E-Commerce
- E-commerce Warehouse
- EAI
- EAN.UCC
- Early Supplier Involvement
- Earnings Before Interest and Taxes
- EBIT
- EC
- ECO
- Economic Order Quantity
- Economic Value Added
- Economy of Scale
- ECR
- EDI
- EDI Document
- EDI Interchange
- EDI Standards
- EDI Transmission
- EDIA
- EDIFACT
- Efficient Consumer Response
- EFT
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Electronic Funds Transfer
- Electronic Mail
- Embargo
- Emergency Stock
- Empirical
- End Item
- End User
- End-of-Life Inventory
- Engineer to Order
- Engineering Change
- Engineering Change Order
- Enroute
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Entry
- Entry Form
- Enveloping
- Environmentally Sensitive Engineering
- EOQ
- EPC
- Equipment
- Equipment I.D.
- Equipment Positioning
- Ergonomic
- ERP
- ERS
- ESI
- Estimated Time of Arrival
- ETA
- ETD
- Ethical Standards
- EVA
- Evaluated Receipts Settlement
- Ex
- Ex Works
- Exception Rate
- Exceptions
- Exclusive Patronage Agreements
- Exclusive Use
- Exempt Carrier
- Expediting
- Expert System
- Expiration Date
- Export
- Export Broker
- Export Compliance
- Export Declaration
- Export Letter of Credit
- Export License
- Export Management Company
- Export Sales Contract
- Export Trading Company
- Exporter Identification Number
- Express
- Extended Enterprise
- Extensible Markup Language
- External Factory
- Extranet
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- FA
- Fabricator
- Facilities
- Failure Modes Effects Analysis
- Fair Return
- Fair Value
- FAS
- FCL
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Maritime Commission
- Federal Register
- FEU
- FG
- FGI
- Field Finished Goods
- Field Service Parts
- Field Services
- Field Warehouse
- FIFO
- Fill Rate
- Fill Rates by Order
- Final Assembly
- Final Assembly Schedule
- Final Destination
- Finance Lease
- Financial Responsibility
- Finished Goods Inventory
- FIPS
- Firewall
- Firm Planned Order
- First In First Out
- First Mover Advantage
- Fixed Costs
- Fixed Order Quantity
- Fixed Overhead
- Fixed Quantity Inventory Model
- Flatbed
- Flatcar
- Flexibility
- Flexible Specialization
- Flexible-Path Equipment
- Flight Number
- Float
- Floor-Ready Merchandise
- Flow Rack
- Flow-Through Distribution
- FOB
- FOB Destination
- FOB Factory
- FOB Origin
- FOB Vessel
- Food and Drug Administration
- For-Hire Carrier
- Force Majeure
- Forecast
- Forecasting
- Foreign Trade Zone
- Forklift Truck
- Form Utility
- Forward picking
- Forwarder's Bill of Lading
- Forwarding Agent
- Four P's
- Four-Wall Inventory
- Fourth Party Logistics
- FPA
- Free Along Side
- Free Alongside Ship
- Free of Particular Average
- Free on Board
- Free Time
- Free Trade Zone
- Freight
- Freight All Kinds
- Freight Bill
- Freight Carriers
- Freight Charge
- Freight Classification
- Freight Collect
- Freight Consolidation
- Freight Forwarder
- Freight Forwarders Institute
- Freight Prepaid
- Freight Quotation
- Fronthaul
- FTL
- FTL freight
- FTZ
- Fulfillment
- Fulfillment Services Provider
- Full Container Load
- Full Truck Load
- Full-Service Leasing
- Full-time Connection
- Fully Allocated Cost
- Functional Acknowledgement
- Functional Group
- Functional Silo
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- Gain Sharing
- Gathering Lines
- GATT
- GB/L
- GDP
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- General Average
- General Order
- General-Commodities Carrier
- General-Merchandise Warehouse
- Global Positioning System
- Global Strategy
- Globalization
- GO
- Going-Concern Value
- Gondola
- Goods
- Government Bill of Lading
- GPS
- Grandfather Clause
- Granger Laws
- Great Lakes Carriers
- Grid Technique
- Gross Margin
- Gross National Product
- Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
- Gross Weight
- GTDI
- GTIN
- Guaranteed Loans
- GUI
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- Handling Costs
- Hard Copy
- Harmonized Commodity Description & Coding System
- Harmonized System Code
- Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
- Haulage
- Haulier
- HAWB
- Hawthorne Effect
- Hazardous cargo
- Hazardous Goods
- Hazardous Material
- Healthcare vertical
- Heijunka
- Hi-Low
- Hierarchy of Cost Assignability
- Highway Trust Fund
- Highway Use Taxes
- Holding cost
- Hopper Cars
- Horizontal Play/Horizontal Hub
- Hostler
- House Air Waybill
- House to House
- House to Pier
- Household Goods Warehouse
- HR
- Hub
- Hub Airport
- Human Resources
- Hundredweight
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- ICC
- Igloo
- Igloos
- IMB
- IMO
- Import
- Import License
- Import/Export License
- Importation Point
- Importer of Record
- Imports
- In Bond
- In-Transit Inventory
- Inbound Freight
- Inbound logistics
- Incentive Rate
- INCOTERMS
- Independent Action
- Indirect Air Carrier
- Indirect Cost
- Indirect Retail Locations
- Indirect/Distributor Channel
- Information System
- Inherent Advantage
- Inland Bill of Lading
- Inland Carrier
- Inland Port
- Insourcing
- Inspection Certificate
- Insurance
- Insurance certificate
- Integrated Carrier
- Integrated Logistics
- Interchange
- Intercoastal carriers
- Intercorporate hauling
- Interleaving
- Interline
- Interline Freight
- Interline Shipping
- Intermediate Destination
- Intermediately Positioned Warehouse
- Intermittent-Flow, Fixed-Path Equipment
- Intermodal Container Transfer Facility
- Intermodal Marketing Company
- Intermodal Transportation
- Internal Customer
- Internal Labor and Overhead
- Internal Water Carriers
- International Air Transport Association
- International Civil Aeronautics Organization
- International Import Certificate
- International Maritime Bureau
- International Maritime Organization
- International Standards Organization
- Interstate Commerce
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Interstate System
- Intrastate Commerce
- Inventory
- Inventory Accuracy
- Inventory Carrying Cost
- Inventory Cost
- Inventory In Transit
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Planning Systems
- Inventory Turnover
- Inventory Turns
- Inventory Velocity
- Invoice
- Irregular Route Carrier
- Irrevocable Letter of Credit
- ISO
- ISO 14000
- ISO 9000
- Issuing Carrier
- ITE
- Item
- Item coding
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- Lading
- Laid-Down cost
- Land bridge
- Land Grants
- Landbridge
- Landed Cost
- Lash Barges
- LASH Vessel
- Last In First Out
- Last Mile
- Last Updated
- LCL
- Lead logistics
- Lead Logistics Provider
- Lead Time
- Leg
- Less Than Container Load
- Less-Than-Carload
- Less-Than-Containerload
- Less-Than-Truckload
- Lessor
- Letter of Credit
- Leverage
- Licensing
- Life Cycle Cost
- LIFO
- Lift on, Lift off
- Lighter
- Lighterage
- Line Functions
- Line Item
- Line-Haul Shipment
- Linehaul
- Liner Service
- Link
- Linked Distributed Systems
- Live
- LLP
- LO/LO
- Load Factor
- Load metre, load meter
- Load Tender
- Load Tendering
- Loading Allowance
- Loading Port
- LOC
- Local Area Network
- Local Rate
- Local Service Carriers
- Localized Raw Material
- Locational Determinant
- Locator system
- Logbook
- Logistics
- Logistics Channel
- Logistics Costs
- Logistics Data Interchange
- Long Ton
- Longshoreman
- Loss and Damage
- Lot
- Lot Control
- Lot Size
- Lower Deck
- LTL
- LTL shipment
- Lumping
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- m-Commerce
- Machine Downtimes
- Macro Environment
- Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Supplies
- Major Carrier
- Make to Order
- Make to Stock
- Make-or-Buy Decision
- Management information system
- Management of All Logistics
- Manifest
- Manufacture Cycle Time
- Manufacturer's Representative
- Manufacturing Calendar
- Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Manufacturing Lead Time
- Manufacturing Resource Planning
- Mar Ad
- Marginal Cost
- Marine Cargo Insurance - FPA
- Marine Cargo Insurance - General Average
- Marine Cargo Insurance - Open Policy
- Marine Insurance
- Maritime Administration
- Market Demand
- Market Dominance
- Market Segment
- Market-Positioned Warehouse
- Marking
- Marks and Numbers
- Marquis Partners
- Mass Customization
- Master Air Waybill
- Master Carton
- Material Acquisition Costs
- Material Index
- Material Requirements Planning
- Materials Handling
- Materials Management
- Materials Planning
- Matrix Organizational Structure
- MAWB
- Maximum Order Quantity
- Measurement Ton
- Median
- Merge In Transit
- Merger
- MES
- Message
- Metrics
- Micro-Land Bridge
- Mileage Allowance
- Mileage Rate
- Mini-Land bridge
- Minimum Charge
- Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ)
- Minimum Weight
- Mixed Loads
- Modal Split
- Mode
- Motor Carrier
- Motor Property Broker
- Movement of Goods
- MRO
- MRO items
- MRP
- MRP-II
- MSDS
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Language
- Multi-sales channel
- Multi-Skilled
- Multichannel Distribution
- Multinational Company
- Multiple-Car Rate
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- NAFTA
- NAFTA Certificate of Origin
- National Carrier
- National Industrial Transportation League
- National Motor Bus Operators Organization
- National Motor Freight Classification
- National Railroad Corporation
- Nationalization
- Negotiable BOL
- Negotiations
- Nested
- Net Assets
- Net Weight
- New Product Introduction
- NITL
- NMFC
- No Loc
- Node
- Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier
- Non-Certificated carrier
- Non-Negotiable BOL
- Non-Residential Inventory
- Non-stock inventory
- Nonconformity
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- NOS/NES
- Not Otherwise Indicated
- Not otherwise specified/Not elsewhere specified
- Notify Party
- NOX
- NPI
- NVOCC
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- Obsolete Inventory
- Ocean Bill of Lading
- Ocean Carrier
- Ocean Container
- OEM
- Offer
- Offline
- Offshore
- Omni-Channel Distribution
- On Board Bill of Lading
- On-Demand
- On-Line receiving
- One-Piece Flow
- One-Way Networks
- Open Policy
- Operating Authority
- Operating Differential Subsidy
- Operating Ratio
- Operational Performance Measurements
- Optimization
- Order
- Order Cycle
- Order Cycle Time
- Order Entry and Scheduling
- Order Fill
- Order Fulfillment
- Order Management
- Order Management Costs
- Order Picking
- Order Processing
- Order Tracking
- Ordering Cost
- Origin
- Original Equipment Manufacturer
- OS&D
- Out of Stock
- Out-of-Pocket Cost
- Outbound Logistics
- Outlier
- Outpartnering
- Outsource
- Outsourced Cost-of-Goods Sold
- Outsourcing
- Over-the-Road
- Over, Short, and damaged
- Overage
- Overcharge Claims
- Owner-Operators
- Owner’s Risk
- Owner/Operator
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- P&D
- P2P
- Packing
- Packing List
- Pallet
- Pallet Wrapping Machine
- Palletization
- Parcel Audit
- Parcel Shipment
- Pareto
- Part Standardization
- Particular Average
- Passenger-Mile
- Path to Profitability
- Pay on Use
- Payment
- Payment Collection
- Payroll
- PBIT
- PDCA
- Peak Demand
- Peer to Peer
- Pegging
- Per Diem
- Perfect Order
- Performance and Event Management Systems
- Performance Measurement Program
- Performance Measures
- Perishable Freight
- Permit
- Perpetual Inventory
- Personal Computer
- Personal Discrimination
- Physical Distribution
- Physical Supply
- Pick and Pack
- Pick List
- Pick to Light
- Pick-Up Order
- Picking
- Picking by Aisle
- Picking by Source
- Piggyback
- Place Utility
- Plan-Do-Check-Action
- Planned Date
- Planned Order
- Plant Finished Goods
- PM
- PO
- POD
- Point of Origin
- Point of Sale Information
- Point of Use Delivery
- Poka Yoke
- Pooling
- Port
- Port Authority
- Port of Discharge
- Port of Entry
- Port of Loading
- POS
- Possession Utility
- Postponement
- Pre-Expediting
- Prepaid
- Prepaid Freight
- Present Value
- Price Erosion
- Primary Manufacturing Strategy
- Primary-Business Test
- Private Carrier
- Private Label
- Private Trucking Fleets
- Private Warehouse
- Private Warehousing
- Pro Forma Invoice
- Pro Number
- Pro-forma
- Proactive
- Process
- Process Benchmarking
- Process Improvement
- Process Manufacturing
- Process Yield
- Procurement
- Product
- Product catalog
- Product Characteristics
- Product Family
- Product ID
- Production Capacity
- Production Line
- Production Planning and Scheduling
- Production-Related Material
- Productivity
- Profit Before Interest and Tax
- Profit Ratio
- Profitability Analysis
- Profitable to Promise
- Promotion
- Proof of Delivery
- Proportional Rate
- Protocol
- Public Warehouse
- Public Warehouse receipt
- Public Warehousing
- Pull or Pull-Through Distribution
- Pull Ordering System
- Pull Signal
- Purchase Order
- Purchase Price Discount
- Purchasing
- Pure Raw Material
- Push Distribution
- Push Ordering System
- Push Technology
- Put Away
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- Radio Frequency
- Radio Frequency Identification
- Ramp Rate
- Rate
- Rationing
- Raw Materials
- Re-Order Point
- Re-stocking
- Real Time
- Receiving
- Receiving dock
- Reefer
- Reengineering
- Refrigerated Carriers
- Release-to-Start Manufacturing
- Replenishment
- Request for Information
- Request for Proposal
- Request for Quote
- Resellers
- Reserve Storage
- Resource Driver
- Resources
- Retailer
- Return Disposal Costs
- Return Goods Handling
- Return Merchandise Authorization
- Return on Assets
- Return on Sales
- Return Order Management Costs
- Return Product Authorization
- Return to Vendor
- Returns
- Returns Inventory Costs
- Returns Management
- Returns Material Acquisition, Finance, Planning, and IT Costs
- Returns Processing Cost
- Returns to Scale
- Reverse Engineering
- Reverse Logistics
- Revocable Letter of Credit
- RF
- RFID
- RFP
- RFQ
- RGA
- RM
- RMA
- ROA
- Robot car
- Roll-on/Roll-Off
- Roof Fairings
- Root Cause Analysis
- Route Trucks Delivery
- Routing
- Routing Accuracy
- Routing or Routing Guide
- RTV
- Rules
s
- S&OP
- SAE
- Safety Stock
- Salable Goods
- Sales and Operations Planning
- Sales Mix
- Sales Plan
- Sales Planning
- Sales Support
- Salvage Loss
- Sawtooth Diagram
- Scan
- Scanlon Plan
- SCE
- SCEM
- Scenario Planning
- SCM
- SCOR
- Scorecard
- Seal
- Seasonality
- Second Day Air Freight
- Secure Electronic Transaction
- Self Billing
- Self Correcting
- Self-driving car
- Selling, General, and Administrative
- Semi
- Serial Number
- Service Level
- Service Parts Revenue
- SET
- SG&A
- Shared Services
- Shareholder Value
- Shelf Life
- Shewhart Cycle
- Shingo's Seven Wastes
- Ship’s Manifest
- Shipment
- Shipment Cut-off Time
- Shipper
- Shipper-Carriers
- Shipper’s Export Declaration
- Shipper’s Letter of Instruction
- Shipper’s Letter of Instructions for Issuing Air Waybill
- Shipping
- Shipping Lane
- Shipping Manifest
- Shop Calendar
- Shop Floor Production Control Systems
- Shopping Cart Integration
- Short Shipment
- Shortage
- Shrinkage
- Sigma
- Six-Sigma Quality
- Skills Matrix
- SKU
- SL&C
- Slotting
- Small Group Improvement Activity
- SMART
- SOP
- SOW
- SPC
- Split Delivery
- Split-case picking
- Spot Demand
- SSCC
- Staging
- Stakeholders
- Standard Components
- Standard Cost Accounting System
- Standing Order
- Statement of Work
- Statistical Process Control
- Steamship Conference
- Stickering
- Stock
- Stock Control
- Stock out
- Stock-Keeping Unit
- Stockout
- Straight Bill of Lading
- Straight Truck
- Strategic Alliance
- Stripping
- Stuffing
- Sub-Optimization
- Subcontracting
- Subhauler
- Sunk Cost
- Supplier Certification
- Supplier-Owned Inventory
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Design
- Supply Chain Event Management
- Supply Chain Execution
- Supply Chain Integration
- Supply Chain Inventory Visibility
- Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Network Design Systems
- Supply Chain Strategic Planning
- Supply Chain-Related Finance and Planning Cost Element
- Supply Chain-Related IT Costs
- Supply Planning
- Supply Warehouse
- Support Costs
- Sustaining Activity
- SWOT
- SWOT Analysis
- Synchronization
t
- Tact Time
- Tactical Planning
- Taguchi Method
- Takt Time
- Tare
- Tare Weight
- Target Costing
- Tariff
- Tariff code
- Tasks
- Tender
- Terminal Handling Charge
- Terms and Conditions
- Terms of sale
- TEU
- The 7 Storage Technique
- Theory of Constraints
- Third Party Logistics
- Third Party Logistics Provider
- Third Party Warehousing
- Third-Party
- Through Bill of Lading
- Through Rate
- Throughput
- Time-Critical
- Time-Definite
- Title
- TL
- TMS
- TOC
- TOFC
- Total Annual Sales
- Total Average Inventory
- Total Cost Analysis
- Total Cost Curve
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Total Cumulative Manufacture Cycle Time
- Total Make Cycle Time
- Total Product Revenue
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Total Supply Chain Management Cost
- Total Supply Chain Response Time
- Total Test Release Cycle Time
- Touch Labor
- Traceability
- Tracing
- Track and trace
- Tractor
- Trading Partner
- Trading Partner Agreement
- Traffic
- Traffic Management
- Trailer
- Trailer Drops
- Trailer on a Flat Car
- Transaction
- Transaction Set
- Transaction Set ID
- Transactional Acknowledgement
- Transit
- Transit Time
- Transparency
- Transportation Management System
- Transportation Mode
- Transportation Planning
- Transportation Planning Systems
- Transportation Security Administration
- Trend Forecasting Models
- Truck Stop Electrification
- Truckload
- Truckload Carriers
- Truckload Lot
u
- U.S. Customs Bonded Warehouse
- Ubiquity
- UCC
- ULD
- Ultimate Consignee
- Umbrella Rate
- UN/SPSC
- Unbundled Payment/Remittance
- UNECE
- Uniform Code Council
- Uniform Product Code
- Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act
- Unit Cost
- Unit load
- Unit Load Device
- Unit of Measure
- Unit Train
- United Nations Standard Product and Service Code
- United States Railway Association
- Unitization
- Unitize
- Unplanned Order
- UOM
- UPC
- Upper Deck
- Upsell
- Upside Production Flexibility
- Upstream
- Urban Mass Transportation Administration
v
- Valuation Charges
- Value Added
- Value Added Tax
- Value Analysis
- Value Based Return
- Value Chain
- Value Chain Analysis
- Value Proposition
- Value-Added Network
- Value-Added Productivity Per Employee
- Value-of-Service Pricing
- VAN
- Variable Cost
- VBR
- Velocity
- Vendor
- Vendor Code
- Vendor-Managed Inventory
- Vendor-Owned Inventory
- Vertical Hub/Vertical Portal
- Vertical Integration
- Vessel
- Vessel Manifest
- Viral Marketing
- Virtual Corporation
- Virtual Factory
- Visibility
- Vision
- VMI
- VOI
- Voice Activated
- Volume Rate
- von Thunen's Belts
- Voyage
- VSA
w
- Waiting Cost
- Wall-to-Wall Inventory
- Warehouse
- Warehouse Management System
- Warehouse Receipt
- Warehousing
- Warranty Costs
- Waterway Use Tax
- Wave Picking
- Waybill
- Weigh Station
- Weight
- Weight Break
- Weight Certificate
- Weight Confirmation
- Weight Unit Qualifier
- Weight-Losing Raw Material
- Weight-Point Plan
- Wharfage
- What You See Is What You Get
- Wholesaler
- WIP
- WMS
- Work in Process
- WPA
- WTO
