Basic Logistics terminology

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If you are a developer and not having logistics domain knowledge and want to quickly gain some insight, here are some basic logistics terms that you need to be familiar with.

Carrier: Carrier is the service provider(SP) for freight movement from one location to another. These are transportation service companies that typically own transportation equipment like trucks, cargo planes, vessel ships, etc. Each carrier has four letter SCAC code (Standard Carrier Alpha Code) that is used on all the shipping documents.

Yard Management and Appointment Scheduling

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Yard Management:

A warehouse usually has - Parking Yard and Dock Doors. Yard will have Rows and Each Row has some defined number of slots. Container will first be placed in the Yard slot. Users at warehouse will pull the container from Yard Slot to Door for unloading. Usually, responsibility of the carrier is to bring the container from port to yard. To move a container from Port to Yard – we can have a custom container ranking algorithm based on certain parameters (like PO priority, delivery dates, etc.) to give ranking to containers. Users at warehouse can use this rank to identify what containers they need to pull to the door at the earliest.

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Basic Logistics terminology

Yard Management and Appointment Scheduling