QM - quality management Quality management includes the sum total of all quality activities to achieve the designated quality. This means maintaining quality standards through quality planning, quality management, quality control, as well as avoiding higher costs created by defective products and correcting them. RELATED CONTRACTS Creative Techniques Six Sigma Potential Analysis Quality Costs Quality Engineering FMEA [...]
QFD - Quality Function Deployment QFD is a system for planning communication that coordinates all resources of an enterprise as well as creates, produces and offers products and services requested by customers to increase competitiveness. RELATED CONCEPTS QM - quality management
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 [...]
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. [...]
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
This broad term describes all transports generated by shipments to and from a seaport. Brief description A port facility is an area that is supplied from the port with import goods, or where export goods are produced. Predominantly, it is the supply and receipt of containers, transported by sea and to which they must be transported from the manufacturer [...]
We speak of sea transportation when goods in bulk, general cargo or transport units (containers) are transported by sea in local and international transport. Brief description Maritime transport is particularly applicable to shipments of high weight, large volume and quantity and low value of goods. Also, a sufficiently large time requirement is a prerequisite for shipping by [...]