3物流英语名词解释

1. purchasing 采购

Purchasing refers to a function in business where by the enterprise obtains the inputs for what it produces, as well as other goods and services it requires.

2. efficiency 效率，功效

Efficiency refers to the state or quality of being efficient.

3. bonded warehouse 保税仓库

A bonded warehouse is a warehouse in which goods are stored without excise or customs duties being paid until and unless they are removed from the warehouse to enter the country.

4. customer service 客户服务

Customer service is the set of behaviors that a business undertakes during its interaction with its customers.

5. consistency 一致性

Consistency refers to a firm’s ability to perform at the expected delivery time over a large number of performance cycles.

6. convenience products 便利型产品

Convenience products are those goods and services that customers purchase frequently, immediately, and with little comparative shopping.

7. zero inventory 零库存

Zero inventories is a term used to describe a Just -In –Time Inventory Control system where emphasis is placed on reducing inventory to minimal levels to reduce costs and promote organizational effectiveness. This can result in sizable profit increase.

8. variable costs 可变成本

They are those costs that change in a predictable, direct manner in relation to some level of activity during a time period.

9. obsolescence 损耗

Obsolescence means the deterioration of product in storage which is not covered by insurance.

10. lot quantity formulation 批量公式

Lot quantity formulations identify the precise quantities at which the annual combined total cost of ordering and maintenance is lowest for a given sales volume.

11. consumer packaging 消费性包装

Consumer packaging mainly aims at containing the goods, promoting the sale of it and facilitating use of it and it is of little value to logistics operation.

It is the formal permission to sell a company’s goods or services in a particular area.

13. supply chain management 供应链管理

Supply chain management is managing the flow of materials across the supply chain, from preparing the raw materials to supplying the finished product to the customer, as well as the related counterblow of information, regarding controlling and recording of materials movement.

14. First Mate 大副

An officer who has the rank just below captain on a ship that is not a military ship.

15. Bill of Lading 提单

A receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery.

16. supply chain management 供应链管理

Supply chain management is the process that integrates coordinates and controls the movements of materials, finished inventory and related information from suppliers through companies to meet consumer requirements.

17. Third-Party Logistics 第三方物流

A third party logistics provider (abbreviated TPL) is a firm that provides outsourced or “third party”logistics services to companies for part or cometimes all of their supply chain management function.

18. unitization 单元化

to combine a number of packages into one unit by straping, banding ,shrinking, wrapping or otherwise attaching them together.

19. logistics 物流

Logistics is that part of supply chain process that plans, implements and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, service and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption to meet ustomers’ requirements.

20. Third-Party Logistics provider 第三方物流供应商

TPL provider is the company offering customs a beginning -to- end product.services include supply chaina manangement, including contracted logistics, freignt forwarding, warehousing, transportation and distribution, a wide ragne of information technology systems and other value-services and customized solutions.

21. shopping products 购买型产品

Shopping products are those for which consumers are willing to seek and compare: comparing in many locations, the price, quality, and performance, and making a purchase only after careful deliberation.