The Freight management refers to the managing of third party carriers to ensure the swift, safe and cost-efficient delivery of shipments, often involving the integration of a range of services.

In order to ensure that the delivery actually matches the order in regard, for example, to quality, number, composition, price and external make-up, a Clean Report of Findings is required. The reasons for this are that, owing to the abstract nature of documentary credit transactions, the processing of payments is based solely on documentary referen [..]

The transload is the transfer of 40ft container loads into truck-driven 53ft containers to reduce costs per unit and achieve faster and more accurate deliveries.

Inventory includes raw materials, components, unfinished goods and/or end products. Inventory refers either to individual warehouses, to storage areas or to all of the articles that a company has in stock.

An ABC analysis involves customers, products and even delivery flows being divided into three categories based on a certain value (revenue, consumption, etc.). The categories are given priorities, making it possible to obtain a rough picture of the actual situation (status quo). The result makes it possible to estimate expenditure and funds availab [..]

Activity-based costing is used for the process-oriented recording and tracking of overheads for products, customers, supply channels or logistics. It is used as a method for developing logistics-oriented cost accounting and time analysis accounting. Activity-based costing makes it possible to show costs incurred by indirect service areas, based on [..]

APS have established themselves, particularly in supply chain management, for simulation purposes and complement production planning and control systems (PPC systems) and ERP systems in the area of cross-company planning and control. The range of tasks covered by APS includes long, medium and short-term planning in the areas of procurement, product [..]

The so-called aftermarket comprises specific services and offerings after the sale of a product. They include, for instance, replacement or servicing of parts. The aftermarket is particularly prevalent in the automotive industry.

Air freight is the transport of goods by air.

Air waybills document the completion and contents of a transportation order by air.