Logistics glossary

Terms

154 terms

A

5 terms

Truck at dock with freight accessorial charge paperwork

Accessorials

Process metrics dashboard — AI agent for business processes

AI agent for business processes

Air Waybill documentation in an air-cargo operation

Air Waybill (AWB)

Logistics analyst focused on exceptions not capture

Analyst productivity agent

DC dock with unload appointment — measuring appointment compliance

Appointment compliance

B

2 terms

Highway truck fleet: backhaul return load to cut empty miles

Backhaul

Container ships at terminal — Bill of Lading (B/L) context

Bill of Lading (B/L)

C

16 terms

Documentación y auditoría de flete: Carta Porte: el complemento CFDI que el SAT sí revisa

Carta Porte

Documentación y auditoría de flete: XML Carta Porte: el archivo que el SAT valida (o rechaza)

Carta Porte XML

Certificate of origin and USMCA file ready for tariff preference

Certificate of origin

Desk work on CFDI cancel-with-replacement

CFDI cancellation with replacement

Documentación y auditoría de flete: Timbrado CFDI: qué es y quién lo hace (spoiler: el PAC)

CFDI stamping

Tablet with digital tax voucher: CFDI UUID tying invoice, payment, and audit

CFDI UUID

Ship and tugs in a CIF-style port operation

CIF

Commercial invoice for foreign trade reviewed before customs clearance

Commercial invoice

DC aisle — complete file binds evidence to the trip before paying

Complete shipment file (KPI)

Operator with headset and screens — computer use in logistics

Computer use

Control tower: seeing exceptions ≠ executing the freight

Control tower

DC docks — measuring cost per delivery and per km in distribution

Cost per delivery and per km

Forklift loading a pallet into a trailer in a cross-dock operation

Cross-docking (X-Dock)

Port crane in operation — customs clearance and cargo release

Customs clearance

Customs value and incrementables: what to document for the MVE

Customs value and incrementables

Cycle counting: stop shutting the warehouse to “count everything”

Cycle counting

D

10 terms

Warehouse aisle at destination — DAP delivery

DAP (Delivered at Place)

Retail checkout — DC chargebacks that bleed margin after delivery

DC chargeback

Industrial dock door — DDP delivery with import duties

DDP (Delivered Duty Paid)

Ventana de entrega en andén de CEDIS con tolerancia de llegada

Delivery window

Stacked containers at a terminal — demurrage for held equipment

Demurrage

Detention: the cost formula (and why it isn't demurrage)

Detention

Freight truck — variable dispatch volume and fleet vs 3PL decision

Dispatch volatility (CV)

Operador planificando su día: jornada del operador en México

Driver duty day

CEDIS yard: trailer left on landing gear and tractor hooked to another box (drop and hook)

Drop and hook

DC dock with boxes loading — measuring drop size per delivery stop

Drop size

E

4 terms

Camión en carretera sin mercancía ilustrando kilometraje vacío

Empty miles

Ops dashboard: end-to-end freight process from quote to pay

End-to-end business process

ePOD: minimum requirements and how to get carrier adoption

ePOD

Numbered warehouse docks — EXW plant pickup

EXW (Ex Works)

F

19 terms

Semi-trucks at plant loading docks — falso flete / dry-run when the unit arrives and the load does not move

Falso flete in Mexico trucking

Loading docks — handoff to the carrier at origin (FCA)

FCA (Free Carrier)

Fulfillment aisle with bins: fill rate measures order completeness, not punctuality

Fill rate ≠ OTIF

Dock: fleet driver management

Fleet driver management

Tractor: fleet fuel control

Fleet fuel control

Fila de tractocamiones midiendo utilización de flota productiva

Fleet utilization

Container ship at port — FOB on-board point

FOB (Free On Board)

Operación portuaria o intermodal: Zona franca: el régimen que cambia costos (y documentación)

Free trade zone

Road freight tractor-trailer on the highway

Freight

Team reviewing a Freight Invoice at a table overlooking a warehouse: collaborative freight audit

Freight audit

Confirmación de booking de carga en operación de transporte México

Freight booking

Freight broker vs 3PL: different roles, different TMS needs

Freight broker vs 3PL

Evidencia de daño en carga: queja de flete (reclamación) con POD

Freight claim

Finance team reviewing a freight invoice and credit note (CFDI egress)

Freight credit note (egress CFDI)

Documentación fiscal de factura de flete y CFDI en operación México

Freight invoice

Tax withholding forms — freight IVA withholding

Freight IVA withholding

Digital checklist on a tablet with checkmarks: freight invoice pre-pay validation

Freight pre-pay validation

Freight rate card: without it, your audit is theater

Freight rate card

Semi on the highway: fuel surcharge (FSC) on the freight rate

Fuel surcharge (FSC)

G

4 terms

Geofencing: the on-time proof WhatsApp can't give you

Geofencing

Semi on a snowy highway: GPS tracking on the route

GPS in freight

Fleet with GPS telemetry: mirror account and trip visibility

GPS mirror account

Tower with consolidated positions from GPS mirror accounts

GPS tracking agent

H

2 terms

Operador revisando horas de servicio antes de un viaje

Hours of service

How to run a physical inventory: 8 steps so stock doesn't lie

How to run a physical inventory

I

4 terms

Documentación y auditoría de flete: IdCCP: el identificador del complemento Carta Porte

IdCCP

Documentación y auditoría de flete: CFDI de ingreso en transporte: cuándo se usa (y quién lo emite)

Income CFDI in transport

Container terminal at sunset — Incoterms® 2020 frame

Incoterms® 2020

Shipping containers floating over a city skyline: intermodal flow of the same ITU across modes

Intermodal transport

K

1 terms

Semi on the highway — measuring km per delivery on a distribution route

Km per delivery

L

13 terms

Operación portuaria o intermodal: Yield de ruta: el margen por lane que compras a ciegas

Lane yield

Last mile: why it costs so much and which KPIs your TMS must show

Last mile

Truck in night/tunnel transit — layover charge

Layover

Boxes on a delivery truck — liftgate / on-site delivery

Liftgate

Forklift in warehouse — load density and trip utilization

Load density (kg/km)

Tractor-trailer and logistics cost control on the corridor

Logistics cost

Centro de distribución y patio: hub logístico que concentra flujos en México

Logistics hub

Tablero de indicadores de transporte y almacén: KPI logístico en México

Logistics KPI

Logistics operator: what it is, when to use one, and which TMS it needs

Logistics operator

Logistics SLA: clauses you can measure (not just sign)

Logistics SLA

Laptop monitoring with dashboards — actionable logistics visibility

Logistics visibility

Logistics yard with trailers parked at a DC lot

Logistics yard

LTL vs FTL: when each saves money (and when it gets expensive)

LTL vs FTL

M

5 terms

Contenedor y tramo carretero: transporte multimodal en corredor México

Multimodal

MVE: who signs, taxable base, and the document you cannot skip

MVE

Reconciled MVE file ready to sign in VUCEM

MVE agent

Customs broker desk with MVE/VUCEM trade documents

MVE in VUCEM

MVE vs COVE: don't confuse the acuse with the manifestation

MVE vs COVE

N

1 terms

Planta y tractocamión en corredor México–EE. UU.: nearshoring y presión al flete

Nearshoring

O

5 terms

Control-tower dashboard with freight KPIs and exceptions

OCL control tower

Equipo de torre y cuentas por pagar con agentes IA en el ciclo de flete

OCL freight agents

Analytics dashboard on laptop — freight audit agent

OCL freight audit agent

Semi on the highway: OTD measured against a real appointment window

OTD / on-time delivery

OTIF: your number is lying (and how to calculate it for real)

OTIF

P

10 terms

PAC/CFDI stamping desk for freight invoicing

PAC CFDI

Packing station with labeled cartons and a shipment packing list

Packing list (lista de empaque)

Document and metrics review — foreign-trade pedimento

Pedimento

Retail shelf — perfect order needs service and defensible documentation

Perfect order

Perpetual inventory: the system that retires blind annual counts

Perpetual inventory

Operador preparando pedidos en pasillo de almacén

Picking

Hardhatted operators inspecting cargo at an open container with clipboard and laptop: POD evidence

POD (proof of delivery)

Delivery evidence with photo, signature, and POD checklist

POD capture agent

Ops and shop: preventive vs corrective maintenance

Preventive vs corrective fleet maintenance

Rate and margin analysis by lane and customer

Pricing & profitability agent

R

3 terms

Team reviewing a Mexico–US freight rate confirmation before authorizing payment

Rate confirmation

Segundo intento de entrega tras un primer intento fallido

Redelivery

Sistemas y automatización logística: RPA en logística: cuándo alcanza y cuándo se quiebra frente a agentes

RPA in logistics

S

8 terms

CEDIS aisle with racks and pallets: safety stock as a physical warehouse buffer

Safety stock / safety inventory

Pallet and fiscal paperwork: SAT ClaveProdServ keys for freight invoicing

SAT ClaveProdServ

Operación de almacén y carga: Zona satélite: el DC chico que acerca stock (y complica el flete)

Satellite DC

Acuerdo de nivel de servicio logístico entre embarcador y transportista

Service level

Buque portacontenedores en terminal: embarque marítimo y cadena documental del flete

Shipment

SLA OTIF monitoring with exception escalation

SLA/OTIF agent

Spot vs contract: the mix that doesn't leave you exposed in Mexico

Spot vs contract

Pasillo de almacén con ubicación vacía por quiebre de stock

Stockout

T

6 terms

Warehouse racks — exceptions that need a documented first action in the tower

Time to first action

TMS vs WMS: buy the right system (not the prettier demo)

TMS vs WMS

Ordered unit on route unused — TONU definition

TONU

Track and trace: the alerts that actually save OTIF

Track and trace

Dispatch assigning a load to a carrier fleet with confirmed rate

Transport assignment agent

Documentación y auditoría de flete: Figura transporte en Carta Porte: quién se registra y por qué importa

Transport figure in Carta Porte

U

1 terms

CEDIS dock with shrink-wrapped pallets and a red container on a yellow trailer

Unload zone

W

34 terms

Almacén moderno con racks y operación de surtido de pedidos

Warehouse

Andén de almacén con handoff ready-to-ship hacia transporte

Warehouse-transport handoff

Warehouse aisle with operators in a wave-picking run

Wave picking (picking by waves)

Pallet and tax paperwork: CFDI XML as the voucher vs the PDF

What CFDI XML is

In-cab dashcam: smart mirror with live road video

What dashcam and video telematics are on a fleet

Yard assets: fleet downtime

What fleet downtime is

Tractor on the highway: fleet telematics with evidence

What fleet telematics is

Units on the road: fleet utilization

What fleet utilization is (operable definition)

Trailer yard slots showing contracted capacity quota

What is a capacity quota

Port cranes in secure chain — certified trade partner

What is a certified trade partner (SCC)

CEDIS dock: staged pallet and open trailer at outbound load — the logistics chain in motion

What is a logistics chain

Worker checks clipboard paperwork in front of a tractor-trailer with container: transfer CFDI

What is a transfer CFDI

Yard jockey terminal tractor moving a trailer in a DC yard

What is a yard jockey (spotter)

Dock with unit and paperwork: load appointment and no-show risk

What is appointment no-show

Team reviewing a carrier performance panel in a yard with multiple units at dock doors

What is carrier management

Distribution center dock operations: goods in transit for cross-docking without long rack storage

What is cross-docking

Container terminal at night — CTPAT definition

What is CTPAT

Certified supply chain: FAST lane and border crossing

What is FAST

Office handshake: freight award and tender close between shipper and carrier

What is freight tendering (RFQ)

Pharmaceutical blister packs — GDP good practices

What is good distribution practice (GDP/BPD)

Distribution center with blue-orange racking, reach trucks, and pallets: physical inventory ready to release to a trip

What is inventory

JIT dock with lean staging and timed trailer window

What is just in time (JIT) in logistics

Person placing a sticky note on a physical Kanban board with replenishment columns (Backlog, Doing, Done)

What is Kanban in logistics

CEDIS floor operations: logistics as physical flow through to the trip file

What is logistics

Workers with clipboard and tablet: manual capture vs digital record in a TMS

What is manual TMS capture

Container stacks in yard — OEA definition

What is OEA

Illustration of a hand holding a Carta Porte document next to a red and blue cargo truck, with an orange border

What is the Carta Porte 3.1 complement

Shipping containers floating over mountains and fog: conceptual scale of the supply chain

What is the supply chain

Night container terminal — per-trip operational file

What is the trip operating file

Operator scanning a pallet in a racking aisle with a WMS

What is WMS

Yard ops: kilometers per liter

What kilometers per liter (km/L) is on a fleet

Freight convoy: predictive analytics on fleet signals

What predictive analytics is in logistics and fleets

Highway interchange with trailers: delivery routing and fleet capacity

What routing is

Imagen logística: que-es-whatsapp-logistica

WhatsApp in logistics

Y

1 terms

Operador usando YMS digital en yarda de remolques

YMS

Recover the 5–7% of your freight.