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There are certain terms that have special meaning within Incoterms, and some of the more important ones are defined below: [13] Delivery: The point in the transaction where the risk of loss or damage to the goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer; Arrival: The point named in the Incoterm to which carriage has been paid
DDP-316, family of minicomputer systems, including DDP-116, DDP-516, DDP-716. Differential dynamic programming, a second-order algorithm for trajectory optimization; Digital DawgPound, a hacker group; Disc Description Protocol, a generic disc image file format; Distributed Data Processing, a 1970s term referring to one of IBM's combined offerings
A fourth party logistics provider has no owned transport assets or warehouse capacity. They have an allocative and integration function within a supply chain with the aim of increasing the efficiency of it. The concept of a fourth-party logistics provider was born in the 1970s by the consulting company Accenture.
Geopost (formerly DPDgroup) is an international parcel delivery service for sorter compatible parcels based in Issy les Moulineaux, France. [3] Until 2015 DPD stood for Dynamic Parcel Distribution.
[2] [3] A more narrow definition of supply chain management is the "design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronising supply with demand and measuring performance globally".
A warehouse in South Jersey, a U.S. East Coast epicenter for logistics and warehouse construction outside Philadelphia, where trucks deliver slabs of granite [1]. Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.
Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is an inventory management practice in which a supplier of goods, usually the manufacturer, is responsible for optimizing the inventory held by a distributor.
MLWN – mean low water neaps; MLWS – mean low water springs; mm – millimetre (SI unit) MM – prefix designating a number in millions (thousand-thousand) MMbod – million barrels of oil per day; MMboe – million barrels of oil equivalent; MMboed – million barrels of oil equivalent per day; MMbpd – million barrels per day