| ab Werk | An international commercial term that is used in international sales contracts to signify a seller`s obligation to make the goods available to a buyer only at the seller`s premises (that is works, factory, warehouse, etc.). Thus, the seller is not responsible for loading, shipping, export clearance, etc. unless otherwise agreed. |
| Abladeschlüssel | The procedure of determining the unloading point |
| Abladestelle | A place where the freight is delivered. |
| ABVT 1988 | General conditions of freight insurance |
| ADR | A body of the European Union (EU) which represents the sub-national regions of the EU in the EU legislative process, but only in a consultative manner. |
| All Risk | Cover-all insurance for cargo transport. |
| ATD | The time of leaving a specified point at a place. |
| Ausfuhranmeldung | A document required for exports of goods that are shipped to the third-world countries and excee € 1000 value. |
| Beschaffungslogistik | Goods procurement process up to the transport of material to the receiving storage or to the production department. |
| Cargo | Goods carried by a large vehicle |
| Carrier | A person or firm in the business of transporting people, goods or messages. |
| CMR | The Convention des Marchandises Routiers (CMR) specifies conditions for the international carriage of goods by road, is used for road freight between many European countries. It confirms receipt of the goods by the carrier, in good condition unless specified otherwise. |
| Container | A truck trailer body that can be detached from the chassis for loading into a vessel, a rail car or stacked in a container depot. |
| CPT | Carriage paid to... means that the seller pays the freight for the carriage of the goods to the named destination. The risk of loss of or damage to the goods, as well as any additional costs due to events occurring after the time the goods have been delivered to the carrier is transferred from the seller to the buyer when the goods have been delivered into the custody of the carrier. |
| CSC | Container Safety Convention Standards |
| Disposition | The carrier activities involved with controlling equipment, involves arranging for fuel, drivers, crews, equipment, and terminal space. |
| Dokumentenakkreditiv | A method of financing overseas trade by the insertion in a contract for goods of a provision that payment shall be made by a bank. The bank undertakes to pay the price of the goods when the exporter delivers the relevant invoices and shipping documents. |
| Eingangsschein | An accompanying document that is provided with the delivery. It specifies the delivered goods and their condition. |
| Exporteur | A person involved in organising goods to be sent to another country. |
| FCA frei Spediteur | A trade term requiring the seller to deliver goods to a named airport, terminal, or other place where the carrier operates. Costs for transportation and risk of loss transfer to the buyer after delivery to the carrier. |
| FCL | Standard (twenty or forty-foot) container that is stuffed (loaded) and un-stuffed (stripped) under the risk and account of the shipper or consignee. In general, a FCL container attracts lower freight rates than an equivalent weight of loose (break bulk) cargo. |
| FIATA | Trade association representing freight forwarding and logistics firms. |
| First in/First out (FIFO) | A method of maintaining product rotation by always picking the oldest first. |
| Flachwagen | A freight car that has a floor without any housing or body above. Frequently used to carry containers and/or trailers or oversized/odd-shaped commodities. |
| Flat Rack | A flat rack is a type of shipping container that has no sides or top. This is designed to carry cargo of awkward sizes, such as machinery or vehicles, whose overall dimensions exceed those of a container. |
| Flottenmanagement | The management of a company`s vehicle fleet. It includes the management of ships and or motor vehicles such as cars, vans and trucks. |
| Fracht | Goods or items in transport |
| Frachtbrief | Non-negotiable document evidencing the contract for the transport of cargo. |
| Frachtfrei | The seller pays for carriage to the named point of destination, but risk passes when the goods are handed over to the first carrier. |
| Frachtkarte | The document used to identify the shipper and consignee, present the routing, describe the goods, present the applicable rate, show the weight of the shipment, and make other useful information notations (it applies to the road transport as well). |
| Frachtvertrag | A contract on shipping goods. |
| Frankatur | The marking of mail by a company or government that offers free or low cost postage privileges, or the convenience of sending bulk mail without using normal postage stamps. |
| Frei Haus | A pricing term to describe when the shipper pays all the applicable duties and all the transportation and other charges until delivered to the buyer`s premises. The term is being replaced by Incoterm "DDP - Delivered Duty Paid ... named point of destination." |
| Gefahrenübergang | When the hazards of, exposures, or financial responsibility for loss is transferred or shifted from the risk to another entity. |
| Gefahrgut | Articles or substances which are capable of posing a risk to health, safety, property or the environment. |
| GGVS Gefahrgutverordnung Straße | An agreement intended to increase the safety of international transport of dangerous goods by road. |
| GMP | A term that is recognized worldwide for the control and management of manufacturing and quality control testing of foods and pharmaceutical products. |
| Grenzüberschreitender Verkehr | Traffic outside one’s own borders under consideration of the customs regulations. |
| GTIN | An identifier for trade items developed by GS1 (comprising the former EAN International and Uniform Code Council). |
| Gurtmaß | A dimension unit used by parcel delivery services to define a maximal allowed dimension of the parcel: (1x length) + (2 x height) + (2 x width) |
| Güter | Items that are produced, traded, bought or sold and then finally consumed. |
| Güterverkehrszentrum | A defined area within which all activities relating to transport, logistics and the distribution of goods, both for national and international transit, are carried out by various operators. |
| Haftung | The legal obligation to pay a debt. |
| Händler | A businessperson engaged in retail trade |
| Hochregallager | Storages that are often more than 10 meters high, with some over 20 meters high. |
| Huckepackverkehr | Transport that involves different carriage means. |
| I-Punkt | At the identification point the truck’s content is controlled and then unloaded in the storage. |
| IBC | A rigid or flexible portable packaging, other than a cylinder or portable tank, which is designed for mechanical handling. |
| Importeur | The party responsible for the import of goods. |
| Inbound | Activities associated with receiving, storing, and disseminating inputs necessary to build the product or provide the service. |
| Incoterms | A series of international sales terms widely used throughout the world. |
| Inkasso | The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc. |
| Intermodal | Those issues or activities which involve or affect more than one mode of transportation, including transportation connections, choices, cooperation and coordination of various modes. |
| Intrastat | EU-wide collection of trade statistics |
| JIT | A comprehensive inventory and manufacturing control system in which no materials are purchased and no products are manufactured until they are needed. |
| Joint Venture | The cooperation of two or more individuals or businesses, each agreeing to share profit, loss and control, in a specific enterprise. |
| Just-In-Sequence | An inventory strategy that is at once Just In Time and in sequence, that is, component parts arrive at a production line moments before they are needed and in the sequence in which they will be used. The manufacturing sequence signal is used to coordinate finished goods production with the supply of raw materials and semi-finished goods. |
| K-Punkt | At the control point, when the goods are leaving the storage, the details are controlled. |
| Kabotage | In shipping, the transport of goods or persons between ports within a single country. |
| KEP Dienste | Shipping services |
| KLV | Carried out with different means of transport |
| Konsignationslager | The stock of goods with an external party (customer) which is still the property of the supplier. Payment for these goods is made to the supplier at the moment when they are sold (used) by this party. |
| Ladegutsicherung | Fixing of cargo on the load carrier in order to avoid its damage. |
| Lademeter | A standard unit of measurement for transport by truck. A loading meter is 1meter of loading space of a truck’s length. When the approx. width of a truck is 2.4 m, 1 loading meter is approx. 2.4 m² (2.4 m wide x 1 m long). |
| Lagerumschlagshäufigkeit | The ratio of annual sales to inventory. Shows how many times the inventory is sold and replaced during an accounting period. |
| LASH | A barrage or other shallow water craft carried onboard a ship for transporting cargo from ship to shore and the other way around. |
| Lastverteilungsplan | The relationship of the gross load on the front and rear axles to the total gross load. |
| Leergut | Empty cans and bottles |
| Less-than-Containerload (LCL) | A shipping term for cargo that is insufficient either in quantity or in weight to qualify for the freight rates applied to a standard shipping container. |
| Lieferantenauswahl | Choice of the supplier |
| Lieferfrist | The date till which the freight is supposed to be delivered. |
| Lieferqualität | Quality that represents the efforts of the carrier to deliver freight in the best possible condition. |
| Lieferverzug | When goods are not delivered in time |
| Logistik | The management of both inbound and outbound materials, parts, supplies, and finished goods. Includes such activities as, production scheduling, forecasting, customer service, order entry, inventory control, and product allocation among customers. |
| Logistikleistungen | Services on the field of logistics |
| Losgrösse | The number of units in a batch |
| LSVA | Applies to vehicles for freight transport with a total weight of more that 3,5 tones. The fee is calculated according to three criteria: the km traveled on Swiss roads, the highest authorized total weight, the pollutants emitted by the vehicle. |
| Maut | Money collected from individuals and merchants using canals and rivers for travel and transportation of goods. |
| MHD | The length of time that food, drink, medicine and other perishable items are given before they are considered unsuitable for sale or consumption. |
| Milk Run | The combination of shipments from multiple vendors in close geographic proximity into one shipment received by the customer, normally done for a defined route on a recurring basis. |
| Normung | The process of formulating, issuing and implementing standards. |
| Outbound | the part of the supply chain process, such as custom assembly or private labelling, that moves, stores, and adds value to goods on the way to their final destination. It sits between supply-side processes such as purchasing and materials management and demand considerations such as sales, marketing, order-taking and customer service. |
| PE | The number of items of a certain product (also in packing units) which can be stored on a pallet by standard. The term can also refer to a certain number of miscellaneous cargo which can be stowed on a pallet and thus form a unit load. |
| PPM | Concentration expressed as parts of a dissolved solid (salt, in our case) per million parts of pure water. |
| Pufferlager | Storeroom aiming at a short storage period for the storage units. |
| QTW | A rail-bound vehicle wih a pusher assembly used to unload goods in storerooms |
| RID | Regulation concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail |
| RMA | A transaction whereby the recipient of a product arranges to return defective goods to the supplier to have the product repaired or replaced or in order to receive a refund or credit for another product from the same retailer or corporation. In practice, an RMA is only issued after a series of tests. |
| RVS | Insurance commonly taken out by freight forwarders to cover damages of goods during the transport or delivery. |
| Sammeltransport | The party combining individual smaller consignments into a single larger shipment |
| Schüttgut | Commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities |
| Schutzzoll | A tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition. |
| Seefracht | Freight for sea transport |
| SLVS | A kind of insurance that covers damages of goods during transport or delivery |
| Spedition | Freight forwarding is a service used by companies that deal in international or multi-national import and export. The freight forwarder acts as an intermediary between the client and various transportation services and sends products from one international destination to another, handles the considerable logistics of the transport task |
| Sperrgut | A cargo on which the transportation charge is assessed on the basis of size or dimensions, instead of upon the gross weight. |
| Stückgut | A unit load combines packages or items into a single "unit" of a few thousand kilograms that can be moved easily with simple equipment. A unit load packs tightly into warehouse racks, containers, trucks, and railcars, yet can be easily broken apart at a distribution point, usually a distribution center, wholesaler, retail store, etc. |
| TEU | An inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals.[1] It is based on the volume of a 20-foot long shipping container, a standard-sized metal box which can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains and trucks.[1] A related unit, the forty-foot equivalent unit (often FEU or feu) is defined as two TEU. |
| THM | Transport equipment is used to move material from one location to another (e.g., between workplaces, between a loading dock and a storage area, etc.) within a facility or at a site. |
| TIR | A convention to simplify and harmonize the administrative formalities of international road transport. |
| Tour | A logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo. |
| Tourenplanung | The task of planning the transport route from one place to the other. |
| Tracking and Tracing | In logistics, tracking and tracing, concerns a process starting with determining the current and past locations and other status of property in transit. |
| Transportkapazität | The number of persons, weight or volume of the load which can be carried by means of transport under given conditions. |
| Transportkosten | Direct and indirect costs that of freight transport |
| Transportnetz | A network of roads, streets, pipes, aqueducts, power lines, or nearly any structure which permits either vehicular movement or flow of some commodity. |
| Transportschaden | Damage that appears while the freight is being transported |
| Transshipment | The unloading of cargo at a port or point where it is then reloaded, sometimes into another mode of transportation, for transfer to a final destination. |
| Ueberladebrücke | A sloped transition between two elevation levels – in transportation used for unloading trucks. |
| UN/EDIFACT | The international Electronic Data Interchange - standard developed under the United Nations .It provides among others standard messages which allow multi-country and multi-industry exchange. |
| WA | Shipped goods |
| Walking-Floor | A hydraulically-driven moving-floor conveyance system for moving material or palletized product, which can be used in a warehouse, loading dock or semi-trailer. |
| Wareneingangskontrolle | Verification check in order to asses whether the product arrived in good condition at your warehouse before accepting them into your stock. In some cases additional measurements are required to verify if the product is according to the desired specification, but in general it means checking if the boxes are OK, the labels are there in the right place, the quantity is OK, etc., etc. The functionality is, or should be, guaranteed and proved with a measurement report from the vendor. |
| Warengruppe | Summarizing single articles into a group according to a certain feature. |
| WE | The (quantity of) goods received by a customer from his suppliers over a particular period in time, measured in quantitative or monetary terms. |
| Wechselaufbauten (WAB) | A "container" for transporting cargo which cannot be stacked unless empty because it is not stable enough. Swap bodies are employed in rail/road combinations. |
| Yield Management | The process of maximizing the contribution of every slot, vessel, trade and network. Basically it should be seen as the process of allocating the right type of capacity to the right kind of customer at the right price as to maximize revenue or yield. |
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