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2. United Parcel Service - Wikipedia

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   ups.com. Footnotes / references. [1][2][3][4][5] United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [6] and one of the world's ...

3. Cross-docking - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Cross-docking is a logistical practice of Just-In-Time Scheduling where materials are delivered directly from a manufacturer or a mode of transportation to a customer or another mode of transportation. Cross-docking often aims to minimize overheads related to storing goods between shipments or while awaiting a customer's order. [1]

4. Incoterms - Wikipedia

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   Incoterms 2020 is the ninth set of international contract terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce, with the first set having been published in 1936. Incoterms 2020 defines 11 rules, the same number as defined by Incoterms 2010. [6] One rule of the 2010 version ("Delivered at Terminal"; DAT) [7] was removed, and is replaced by a ...

5. Package delivery - Wikipedia

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   Package delivery. Package delivery or parcel delivery is the delivery of shipping containers, parcels, or high-value mail as single shipments. The service is provided by most postal systems, express mail, private courier companies, and less-than-truckload shipping carriers. [1] Package delivery is different in each country, and how packages are ...

6. Spoke–hub distribution paradigm - Wikipedia

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   Point-to-point (top) vs hub-and-spoke (bottom) networks. The hub-and-spoke model, as compared to the point-to-point model, requires fewer routes. For a network of n nodes, only n − 1 routes are necessary to connect all nodes so the upper bound is n − 1, and the complexity is O(n).

7. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport - Wikipedia

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   Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (IATA: SDF, ICAO: KSDF, FAA LID: SDF), also known by its former official names Louisville International Airport and Standiford Field, is a civil-military airport in Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The airport covers 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) [ 4 ] and has three runways. [ 5 ]

8. Supply chain - Wikipedia

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   A diagram of a supply chain. The black arrow represents the flow of materials and information, and the gray arrow represents the flow of information and backhauls. The elements are (a) the initial supplier (vendor or plant), (b) a supplier, (c) a manufacturer (production), (d) a customer, and (e) the final customer.

9. Delivery (commerce) - Wikipedia

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   Delivery is a fundamental component of commerce and trade, and involves transport and distribution. The general process of delivering goods is known as distribution, while the study of effective processes for delivery and disposition of goods and personnel is called logistics. Firms specializing in delivering commercial goods from the point of ...