Glossary
This list of words explains specialist expressions and abbreviations which are used in logistics but are not widely known.
- B2B Business to Business
- B2C Business to Consumer
- BAG Bundesamt für Güterverkehr (Federal Office of Goods Transport)
- Carrier
- CIR-ELKE Computer Integrated Railroading
- Cluster
- Combined transport
- Combined transport terminal
- Container
- Contract logistics
- Core logistics industry
- Cross-Docking
- General Transport Plan
- GI zone
- Gigaliner
- Global sourcing
- Goods distribution center
- Goods transport center
- GVP General Transport Plan
- GVZ Goods transport center
- Importation value added tax
- Information logistics
- Intermodality
- Intralogistics
- Intralogistics industry
- Inventory
- ISO
- ISO container
- JIS Just in Sequence
- JIT Just in Time
- Just in Sequence
- Just in Time
- Last mile logistics Last mile logistics
- Last mile logistics Last mile logistics
- Locational advantages
- Low-Cost-Carrier
- NEAT New Transalpine Rail Link
- New Transalpine Rail Link
- Non-built-up access
- Picking
- Piggy-back transport
- Plant logistics
- Plant traffic
- Procurement logistics
- Procurement warehouse
- Production store
- Radio Frequency Identification
- Railport
- Reach stacker
- RFID Radio Frequency Identification
- Rola Piggy-back transport
- RWA
- SCI/Logistics Barometer
- SCM Supply Chain Management
- Secondary road network
- Sending company
- Standard gauge railway
- Statistical company register
- Storage logistics
- Supply chain
- Supply Chain Management
- Swap body
- Swap container
- System transport
- TEU Twenty feet Equivalent Unit
- Toll on heavy goods vehicles
- Traffic guidance system
- Transport Management Systems
- Transshipment warehouse
- Twenty feet Equivalent Unit
- Warehouse Management Systems
- Warehouse Management Systems
- Wider logistics industry
- WMS Warehouse Management Systems
- WMS Warehouse Management Systems