Shipping Glossary

A

ABC Analysis Accessorial Charges Actual Weight Additional Handling Address Correction Address Verification Adult Signature Advance Shipping Notice (ASN) Air Freight Air Waybill Allocation Anti-Dumping Duty API Integration Appointment Delivery Appointment Scheduling ATA Carnet Attempted Delivery

B

Backhaul Backorder Backordered Barcode Batch Picking Batch Shipping Bill of Lading (BOL) Billable Weight Blank Sailing Blind Shipment Bonded Warehouse Booking (Shipping) BOPIS Branded Tracking Breakbulk Brokerage Fee Bubble Wrap

C

Carrier Agreement Carrier Claim Carrier Contract Carrier Liability Carrier Performance Carrier Pickup Certificate of Origin Chargeback (Retail) Chassis Clearance Delay COD (Cash on Delivery) Cold Chain Collect Shipping Commercial Invoice Common Carrier Consignee Consignor Consolidation Consumption Entry Container Freight Station Control Tower Corrugated Box Cross-Border Shipping Cross-Docking Crowdsourced Delivery Cube Utilization Cubic Pricing Custom Packaging Customs Bond Customs Broker Customs Clearance Customs Duties Customs Valuation Cut-Off Time Cycle Count

D

Damage Claim DAP (Delivered at Place) DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) De Minimis Dead Stock Dead Weight Deadhead Declared Value Delivery Area Surcharge Delivery Confirmation Delivery Exception Delivery Instructions Delivery Photo Delivery Window Demurrage Destuffing Detention DIM Factor Dimensional Weight (DIM Weight) Distribution Network Dock Appointment Dock Door Dock Scheduling Drayage Driver Release Drop Trailer Drop-Off Location Dropshipping Dunnage Duty Drawback Duty-Free Dwell Time

E

Economy Shipping EDI Embargo Entry Summary Estimated Delivery Date ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) Exception Handling (Shipping) Exception Management Expedited Shipping Export Documentation Exporter of Record Express Shipping

F

FAK (Freight All Kinds) FCL (Full Container Load) FedEx SmartPost FIFO Fill Rate First Mile Flat Rate Shipping Float (Inventory) FOB (Free on Board) Formal Entry Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL) Fragile Handling Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Freight Audit Freight Auditing Freight Bill Freight Broker Freight Class Freight Consolidator Freight Forwarder Freight Terms FTL Shipping (Full Truckload) Fuel Surcharge Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Fulfillment Center

G

General Average Geo-Fencing GPS Confirmation Green Logistics Gross Weight Ground Shipping GTIN (Global Trade Item Number)

H

Handling Unit Harmonized Code (HS Code) Hazmat Hold for Pickup House Bill of Lading Hub and Spoke Hundredweight (CWT)

I

Import Duties Importer of Record In Transit In-Bond Inbound Logistics Incoterms Indirect Signature Informal Entry Inside Delivery Insulated Packaging Intermodal Shipping International Shipping Inventory Accuracy Inventory Holding Cost Inventory Turnover

J

Jettison Just-in-Time (JIT)

K

Kitting Kraft Paper

L

Label Printer Landed Cost Landed Cost Calculator Lane (Shipping) Last Mile Delivery LCL (Less Than Container Load) Lead Time Lift Gate Liquidation Live Unload Load Board Load Planning Lost Package Lot Tracking LTL Shipping (Less Than Truckload)

M

Mailer Box Manifest Manifesting Marine Insurance Master Bill of Lading Master Carton Media Mail Middle Mile Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) Modal Shift Multi-Piece Shipment

N

Negotiated Rates Net Weight Next-Day Delivery NMFC Code Notify Party NVOCC

O

Ocean Bill of Lading Omnichannel Fulfillment On-Time Delivery (OTD) OOG (Out of Gauge) Order Accuracy Order Fulfillment Order Management System Order Management System (OMS) Order Splitting Origin Scan Out for Delivery Outbound Logistics Overnight Shipping Oversize Package

P

Pack-Out Package Consolidation Package Locker Package Redirect Packaging Materials Packaging Optimization Packing Slip Pallet Pallet Exchange Palletization Parcel Parcel Audit Parcel Audit Service Partial Shipment Peak Surcharge Pick and Pack Pick Path Pick Ticket Pickup Request Poly Mailer Port of Entry Postage Meter Postal Injection Postponement Prepaid Shipping Presort Priority Mail Cubic Private Carrier PRO Number Product Liability Insurance Project Cargo Proof of Delivery (POD) PUDO (Pick Up Drop Off) Put-Away

Q

Quarantine Quota

R

Rate Card Rate Shopping Real-Time Tracking Receiving Receiving Dock Reefer Regional Carrier Released Value Reorder Point Replenishment Reship Residential Surcharge Restricted Goods Return Label Return to Sender Returns Policy Reverse Logistics RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) Ro-Ro (Roll-On/Roll-Off) Room of Choice Routing Guide

S

Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Safety Stock Safety Stock Calculation Same-Day Delivery Saturday Delivery Scan Rate Scheduled Pickup Seal Number Serial Number Tracking Service Guarantee Service Level (Shipping) Ship Complete Ship Date Ship to Store Ship-from-Store Shipment Consolidation Shipment Exception Shipper of Record Shipping API Shipping Cutoff Time Shipping Insurance Shipping Label Shipping Notification Shipping Scale Shipping Software Shipping Zone Shrink Wrap Signature Confirmation Signature Required SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) Slotting Sort Facility Sortation Split Shipment Spot Quote Spot Rate Staging Area Standard Shipping Stockout Storage Fee Stretch Wrap Stuffing Supply Chain Supply Chain Visibility Sustainable Packaging

T

Tare Weight Tariff Code Telex Release Temperature-Controlled Shipping Tender TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit) Thermal Label Third-Party Billing Threshold Delivery Throughput Time-Definite Track and Trace Tracking Number Trailer Pool Transaction Value Transit Time Transload Transportation Management System (TMS) Two-Day Shipping

U

Undeliverable Unit Load UPS SurePost USPS Priority Mail USPS Returns

V

Value-Added Services (VAS) Velocity (Inventory) Vendor Compliance Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Void Fill Volumetric Weight

W

Warehouse Management System (WMS) Warehouse Management System (WMS) Wave Picking Waybill Weight Break White Glove Delivery Work Order (Warehouse)

X

X-Ray Inspection

Y

Yard Yard Management Yield Management

Z

Zero Inventory Zone Density Zone Picking Zone Skipping Zone-Based Pricing