Unit 2 summary - Samenvatting English for logistics 2 PDF

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Unit 2: Logistics Services Acronyms FCL

Full Container Load

3PL

Third-Party Logistics

HGV

Heavy Goods Vehicle

DC

Distribution Centre

LCL

Less than Container Load

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

VAS

Value-Added Services

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

ISO

International Standards Organization

GPS

Global Positioning System

Vocabulary Transshipment

Loading goods from one means of carriage to another

Break-bulk

Packing goods in small, separable units

Cross-docking

Direct flow of goods from receipt at warehouse to shipping, bypassing storage

Order picking

Selecting and assembling items from stock for shipments

Reverse logistics

Collecting and handling of used or damaged goods or of reusable transit equipment

Tracking and tracing

Locating items in transit

Warehousing

Receiving and storing goods

Collection

Picking up goods at a named place

Provider

Leverancier

Shipping lines

Rederijen

Fleet of vehicles

Wagenpark

Air carries

Luchtvervoerder

Transport companies Transportbedrijven Range

Reeks

Customized

Aangepast, maatwerk

Outsourcing

Contracting functions out to third-party providers

Comprehensive

Including a wide range of services

Consolidation

The grouping of small shipments into one container

Requirements

Details of what is expected and needed

Demand

The need for particular goods or services

Competition

Companies trying to sell the same or similar products to customers

Pick and pack

Individual components of an order are gathered from master cartons and placed into a box addressed to the recipient

Literature fulfilment

Storage of the storing, gathering, packaging & distributing of printed materials such as brochures/catalogues.

Returns processing

Terugsturing

Credit processing

(often a third party) appointed by a merchant to handle transactions from various channels such as credit cards and debit cards for merchant acquiring banks.

Kitting

Making small packages

Crating

Packaging something in a crate for transportation

Polybagging

Packaging small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of newspapers/magazines… (plastic bags)

Shrink-wrapping

Vacuum verpakken

Bundling/unbundlin g

Bundelen/ontbundelen

Competitive edge

Something that gives a company an adventage over others

Battle

Fight against

At a premium

Extremely valuable and rare, which a lot of people want

At the forefront

In the leading position

Surging

Rapidly increasing

Display

The way good are arranged in a store so they are easily seen by customers

Pilot project

A test done on a small scale to see how something works

Live sales data

Information about sales, which is current or in real time

Replenishment

Replacement of what has been used or sold

Assembled

Put together in a certain way

Inventory level

Voorraadniveau

Freight costs

Vrachkosten

Growth targets

Groeidoelstellingen

Road congestion

Verkeersophoping

Verb

Noun

Receive

Receipt

Equip

Equipment

Carry

Carriage

Assemble

Assembly

Locate

Location...