WAREHOUSE

 Establishment or enclosure designed to receive, store, manipulate, refurbish,

prepare and issue goods in accordance with the applicable legal rules, regardless of who is its owner.

STORAGE

 

Action to keep the products moving through the supply chain. It exists in the factory itself (inputs and finished products); before arriving to where is held the

international shipping in the selling country; for international traffic when carried out transhipment; and / or before arrival at the premises of the purchaser in the country

of destination.

PROCUREMENT

 

Set INTERNATIONAL.- logistics business planning functions, for which it is purchased, traffic, control inventory, receiving and inspecting material available or

invalid is rejected.

Deconsolidated AREA

Physical space of the stores, near the entrance, where products entered are removed from the container, unpacked, separated, classified or even repacked,

according to the storage system of the company.

ARMADOR OWNER

 Natural or legal person providing freight transportation services by water, using a merchant

ship owned or leased.

BENCHMARKING

 

Technique whereby competition performance is measured and compared to the own, resulting in the maintenance of the degree of competitiveness of a company.

BIG BAG

Packing for packaging, transport or storage of general cargo and bulk.

BODEGA

Inside a vessel, used for storing cargo space.

BUSINESS TO BUSINESS (B2B)

 Electronic commerce between companies which does not include the final consumer.

BUSINESS TO CONSUMER (B2C)

E-commerce between businesses and consumers.

SUPPLY CHAIN

Set of operations closely to each of the actors, producers and suppliers involved in making a product or offering a service to its operational integration and management.

ECR

Or shorthand term used to identify the program of collaboration between suppliers and distributors by reducing the costs of providing products, seeking common maximum

efficiency. English "consume efficient response."

BARCODE

Method coded data for fast and accurate reading.

FREIGHT

Price stipulated by the rental of a warehouse or a part of it.

MANIFESTO OF CHARGE

Document containing the whole relationship of packages comprising the cargo on board the means of transport and they will be loaded and unloaded in a port or airport.

LOGISTIC OPERATOR

Natural or legal person, specialized in providing logistics services and thus sufficiently trained to provide comprehensive solutions for managing the flow of goods from a source to a destination,

selecting the most suitable forms of storage, order processing and stock control and combining, in a more timely way, involving transport modes required.

OUTSOURCING

Method of organization and optimization of the resources of a company. Through it, the direction of it outsourced to other specialized outside companies to perform those activities that considers

non-core or essential to the fulfillment of its purpose or core business and / or the lack of competitive advantage. English "outsourcing".

FREIGHT TERMINAL

Physical enclosure where it joins the infrastructure of different modes of transport and have enough capacity to transfer operations of loading units between vehicles of different modes of

transport.

TEU

Contenedor equivalente a 20 pies; la medida estándar de los contenedores de carga marítimos

TRANSPORTATION

Mobilization or transfer of goods from one place to another.

Movilización o traslado de mercaderías desde un lugar a otro.

INTERMODAL TRANSPORT

Using various means of transportation, but one of the carriers organizes the whole process, according to the distribution of responsibility, they are employed transport documents.

MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT

Is the transport of goods using at least two different modes of transport covered by a multimodal transport contract from a place in a country where the multimodal transport operator is responsible for them, to a place designated for delivery situated in a different country.

FREE TRADE ZONE

Commercial or industrial area near a port of entry where the goods and raw material imports are not subject to customs payments or taxes.

FREE ZONE

Customs procedure allowing receive goods in a designated area of a state, without payment of import duties on the grounds that they are not in the customs territory and which are not subject

to the usual customs control.

PRIMARY AREA

Land or water, continuous or discontinuous area occupied by ports, airports and the adjacent area border points, enabled by the customs authority for the control of goods, vehicles and people.

BAND

Tape of flexible material used to close or strengthen transport packaging or packaging components to ensure. Also called strip.