This document defines key logistics and supply chain management terms. It describes a warehouse as a facility for receiving, storing, preparing, and distributing goods according to applicable rules. It notes that storage exists at various points in the supply chain, including factories, shipping locations, and purchaser premises. Procurement involves planning logistics functions like purchasing, transportation, inventory control, and receiving/inspecting materials. Other terms defined include deconsolidation areas, freight forwarders, benchmarking, packaging types, electronic commerce models, supply chain components, collaboration programs, identification coding, transportation documents, and transport modes.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. BIG BAG
Packing for packaging, transport or storage of general cargo and bulk.
BODEGA
Inside a vessel, used for storing cargo space.

5. 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.

6. 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."

7. BARCODE
Method coded data for fast and accurate reading.
FREIGHT
Price stipulated by the rental of a warehouse or a part of it.

8. 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,
selectingthe mostsuitableformsof storage,orderprocessingandstockcontrol and combining, in
a more timely way, involving transport modes required.

9. OUTSOURCING
Methodof organizationandoptimizationof the resourcesof a company. Through it, the direction
of itoutsourcedtootherspecializedoutsidecompaniestoperform 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.

10. 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.

11. 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 transportof goodsusingat leasttwodifferentmodes 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.

12. FREE TRADE ZONE
Commercial orindustrial 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
importdutiesonthe groundsthat theyare not in the customs territory and which are not subject
to the usual customs control.

13. PRIMARY AREA
Land or water,continuousor discontinuousareaoccupiedbyports,airportsandthe 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.