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GLOSSARY


    A

  • Agile Supply Chain
  • Automated Storage and Retrieval System

  • B

  • Bargaining Unit
  • Bonded Storage
  • Boycott
  • Break Bulk Cargo

  • C

  • Collective Bargaining
  • Consignee
  • Consignee
  • Contingent Worker
  • Cost-of-Living Index
  • Cost-of-Living Index
  • Cross Docking System

  • D

  • Distribution Center
  • Dwell time

  • E

  • Electronic Data Exchange
  • Employment Cost Index
  • Excelsior List

  • F

  • Facility Relocation
  • Featherbedding
  • Field Warehousing
  • Fixed Order Interval
  • Flexible Benefits
  • Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL)
  • Free Riders

  • G

  • Gantry Crane
  • General Strike
  • Global Procurement
  • Grievance
  • GSCF Model

    H

  • Hot Cargo

  • I

  • Intermodal Container
  • Inventory Management

  • J

  • Just-In-Time (JIT)

  • L

  • Labor Management Dispute
  • Layoff
  • Location Quotient
  • Lockout
  • Logistics Automation

  • M

  • Make-to-Order
  • Make-to-Stock
  • Marginal Analysis
  • Market Strategy
  • Median Wage
  • Multiclient Warehousing

  • N

  • Nesting
  • Nodes
  • Nonvessel-Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)

  • O

  • Occupational Injury
  • Ocean Carrier Alliances
  • On-Call Employees
  • Open Shop
  • Order Processing

  • P

  • Paperless Warehouse
  • Piece Work
  • Private Warehousing

  • R

  • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  • Rail Gauge
  • Recordable Injuries and Illnesses
  • Reorder Point

    S

  • Scab
  • Secondary Boycott
  • Shipper
  • Shipper
  • Shop Steward
  • Slowdown
  • Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)
  • Stowability
  • Strike
  • Supplier Parks
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Integration
  • Systems Analysis

  • T

  • Temporary Help Agency
  • Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
  • Time Series Forecasting
  • Transaction Processing System (TPS)
  • Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU)

  • U

  • U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
  • Union Buster
  • Union Shop
  • Unit Labor Costs
  • Unit Load
  • Unit Load Device/Airfreight Containers

  • V

  • Vendor Managed Inventory
  • Vertical Lift Module

  • W

  • Warehouse Management System
  • Whistleblower
  • Wildcat Strike
  • Workers Compensation
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