E-Business E-Business is the electronic support of activities that take place between a company, its suppliers and its customers. A brief description It includes methods of doing business with electronic support, with the Internet playing the most prominent role here. The concept of E-Business can be categorized according to the type of participant as follows: Consumer / customer, consumer Business / enterprise, [...]
By core business we mean all areas in a company that contribute to value and help align products and/or services with customers. Brief description A company's focus on its core business brings a reduction in activity to the most important activity. This allows the enterprise to carry out activities that serve to directly achieve the enterprise's goals. These competencies primarily include [...]
Distribution Under the term distribution is understood in the logistics area basically the physical separation of goods. Brief description In addition to development, procurement, production and disposal logistics, distribution logistics is gaining increasing importance. It deals with all the processes of distributing a company's goods to partners or consumers along the supply chain. Here, too, the assumption applies again - with [...]
Organizational structure (logistic definition) Logistic organizational structure refers to the logistic flow from the supply market through the customer market to waste logistics. RELATED CONCEPTS Organizational structure (general definition).
In the economic circle, the term disposition generally defines an operationally active position (implementation) in the structure of the enterprise. Brief description The scope of responsibilities belonging to the disposition department, is the distribution of incoming orders, the concrete implementation of current daily business, as well as the allocation of resources to the disposition and positions. In doing so, dispatchers usually deal with the operational tasks of the enterprise, such as ordering or executing [...]
DRP abbreviation corresponds to the term Distribution Requirements Planning and is used for resource planning in the distribution network. A brief description of DRP prepares for distribution planning detailed information about the logistics network, the current state of the warehouse, so that coordinated planning and delivery of final product resources can take place. DRP measures include, among other things, adjusting warehouse resources [...]
The term main road is understood in transportation as the transport of general cargo from the nodal point of the sending shipper to the transshipment point of the receiving shipper. Brief description The term main road is used both in air freight and road traffic. The transport from China to Austria, for example, the section of the departure port all the way to the port of entry in Europe is referred to by this term. [...]
Commodities are packaged or unpackaged goods in solid form up to 3 tons that do not change their form during transportation and are treated as individual units during any logistical procedures. Examples include packages, boxes, cans, bottles, finished and assembled parts, rolls, bags, containers, cargo units, machinery, vehicles and containers. RELATED CONCEPTS Bulk goods Bulk goods
Double Sourcing or Dual Sourcing is a way of acquiring goods in which one and the same product is taken from two different bidders. Brief Description With Double Sourcing, care is taken to ensure that if one supplier drops out, supply is still assured. Unlike Single Sourcing, there is also less risk of over [...]
We speak of an intra-Community supply when goods are sold and shipped inside the economic space of the European Union. Brief description An intra-Community supply occurs when a company sends or a recipient orders goods originating from another country belonging to the Union. The recipient must be a businessman who purchases the goods for his own business. Finally, the purchase of these goods must [...]