Standard Terminology for Supply Chain Locations

Importancia y uso:

3.1 This standard builds on the concepts of interconnected supply chains and the dynamic goods movement process, to create clarity and precise understanding of the locations terms and definition and how they are used in the transport of cargo by logistics service providers, carriers, terminal operators and other involved parties.

3.2 This terminology standard describes terms and definitions that help answer the “where” question that is asked throughout most if not all supply chain and goods movement process activities. People involved in those activities will use an abundance of terms and definitions associated with the “where” question but all too often these people do not bother to check whether they use a specific term with the same meaning as their counterpart understands the term. This document aims to provide location terms and definitions that can be commonly used across a wide range of activities in supply chain and goods movement process operations and be understood the same way by those using these terms.

3.3 The document first introduces a number of foundational location terms and concepts related to being able to start responding to the “where” question. After that section, the document is split into sections that group related terms and concepts together rather than providing an alphabetical list of terms and definitions.

3.3.1 The reason for this is that this way ensures that a user of this document will see the related terms when searching for a specific term. In many instances, the user may then see the related terms and realize that one of those related terms is a better fit for the purposes that the user had in mind when starting the search in this document.

3.4 The structuring of the section grouping the related terms and definitions evolves over time and therefore this section does not provide an overview of those sections. Such an overview may be added in future versions of this document.

Subcomité:

F49.01

Referida por:

F3682-25

Volúmen:

10.04

Palabras clave:

supply chain; location; goods movement process; transportation; logistics;