Transit is referred to as transport and goods streams that cross an area (most often a country), with the point of origin and destination of that stream lying outside that region. Brief description From a customs point of view, transit is said to occur when physical goods and commodities are transported through a country's territory without being included in the so-called free [...]
Full-vehicle transports describe transports during which a single batch of goods uses a means of transportation entirely. Whole-vehicle transport describes the quantity of goods that is picked up from a single shipper and delivered to the consignee using the same means of transportation. No handling or physical manipulation of the goods takes place during this process. RELATED CONTRACTS Partial load transportation FTL - Full [...]
Cost Passage Point The cost passage point is defined in commercial enterprises as the physical point at which transportation costs pass from the seller to the buyer. Brief description The cost transition point defines the point before which costs are borne by the shipper and after which costs are borne by the buyer. Thus, for example, when applying the FOB formula, transportation costs from [...]
TPM processes describe the elementary physical activities of logistics, namely transportation, handling and warehousing. Brief description TPM processes are now seen as a basic form of modern logistics. These include transportation services, i.e. changes in geographic space, transshipment services, i.e. changes in the order and arrangement of objects (such as picking), as well as warehousing, i.e. crossing time differences. [...]
Point of disconnection The point of disconnection is understood in the production area as the point at which an order goes from an anonymous preparation in the warehouse to a customer-specific order of an order. Brief description As a point of disconnection (also Push/Pull-boundary, Customer Order Decoupling Point or also Order Penetration Point), two logistical control wheels meet. The principle-based [...]
The term refining transportation describes a customs-legal procedure during which products or raw materials are exported from one economic space and are refined in a foreign economic space (further processing/finishing). After this process, the goods are imported back into the economic space of the product's origin. Brief description Refining transportation is carried out under special customs-legal pre-requisites, by which during [...]
Surface transportation is a transportation term describing all physical movements of goods, where goods are moved by road, i.e. neither air freight nor sea freight. Brief description Surface transportation is generally divided into the area of road freight and rail freight. RELATED CONTRIBUTIONS Transport logistics Cabotage Company transport Tachograph
I-Point The term I-Point refers to an information or identification point and generally means a place in the goods receiving area of a warehouse where goods are received and are assigned to their respective storage locations. Brief description In a general sense, an information point is a computer-controlled work place in the storage area. At this place, information from packaging [...]
Multi-Moment Adoption Multi-Moment Adoption is a statistical process of material flow study, which, through random checks, examines individual portions of time attributable to activities in a company, such as the load of machines or means of transport, employees, or the use of industrial space, to determine the downtime days of machines, transport routes, employee occupancy. RELATED CONCEPTS Material flow Time recording
Carriage of partial cargoes Partial cargoes are defined as transports of goods that, due to their quantity and volume, cannot completely fill the transport space of the transport vehicle, and yet cannot be reloaded. However, in order to make full use of the capacity, more partial cargoes are usually transported together. In contrast to grouped cargoes, receiving [...]