Glossary

A firm that provides service to its customers of outsourced (or third party) logistics services for part, or all of their supply chain management functions

A number or code assigned to an incoming shipment designed to speed up the receiving and turn-around time

A simulation of costs

The practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from large number of people, typically via the internet.

If a shipment is marked as fulfillment by a 3PL it means that the shipment are picked and packed and ready to be picked up by a courier. They could be picked up, but not necessarily are.

“These are locations that are remote and less accessible and thus labelled as out-of-delivery or extended delivery area.

A service that Floship provides when goods enter warehouse for re-shipping without needing to do a bin-putaway and no packing required, just labelling

A return, including undeliverables

Customer’s order order record

A unique identifier for a product

Indicates the QTY measure for an item type, such as “Carton of 10”