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| |Audit Log
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| |A log of events that have happened in the [[C-TMS]] system. It could include information, error, debug or audit messages. Users are able to search for messages of a certain type, on a certain day and from a certain area of the system.
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| |Booking
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| |A quantity of a single Product Type on a single DU Type to be delivered from one location to another on particular date but not at a particular time. These records are usually created by the Auto Summary process. These records are displayed in the main view on the Bookings form.
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| |Case
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| |A Case of individual packets of a product e.g. a case of Cornflake packets.
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| |[[Crossdock]]
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| |Delivery from one location to another via another third location. This third location is known as the ‘Crossdock’ location.
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| |CSB
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| |This refers to Carrier Self Billing, the process that [[C-TMS]] uses to produce and send invoices to carriers.
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| |CTM
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| |This refers to the Carrier Trip Managment module within [[C-TMS]].
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| |DU
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| |Despatch Unit type e.g. Standard Roll Pallet.
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| |Drivers Day
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| |A schedule of work that a driver would undertake in a day including any rest periods and breaks.
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| |Fuel Surcharge
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| |An additional charge that may be applied to a Transport charge to reflect the increasing price of fuel.
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| |Isotrak
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| |A third party software package that allows users to be informed of the whereabouts of their vehicles using GPS technology. Interfaces with [[C-TMS]] in order to provide ‘actuals’ information for trips (i.e. the time a trip arrived at a stop and the amount of pallets that were delivered).
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| |MSMQ
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| |Microsoft Message Queue – a method of interfacing with another system using Microsoft based technology.
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| |ODBC
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| |Open Database Connectivity – A method of communicating with an external database from a program outside of the database environment
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| |Order
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| |An instruction to deliver specific quantities of one or more Product Types on particular DU types from one location to another at a particular time.
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| |Order Line
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| |An order can be made up of different order lines (i.e. an order from one location to another can contain many lines such as 20 ambient pallets and 20 chilled pallets)
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| |Payment
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| |Monies paid by a cost centre to a third party such as a carrier.
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| |Plan
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| |A term used to describe the result from scheduling Orders onto Trips. The first set of Trips may be referred to as ‘Plan A’, with a subsequent, more accurate plan later in the day being referred to as ‘Plan B’.
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| |Post Schedule
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| |The period after Orders have been scheduled in the Scheduling Program and then returned to [[C-TMS]]. Any subsequent manipulation of these Orders would be Post Schedule manipulation.
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| |Pre Schedule
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| |The period before Orders have been scheduled in the Scheduling Program and then returned to [[C-TMS]]. Any manipulation of these Orders would be Pre Schedule manipulation.
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| |Product Item
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| |Another term for a case or SKU
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| |Product Quantity
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| |A quantity of a single Product Item or SKU to be delivered from one location to another on particular date but not at a particular time. These records are created by the inbound Bookings interface process. These records are displayed in the View Detail screen on the Bookings form. | |
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| |Product Summary
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| |Another term for Booking
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| |Product Type
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| |The category that a Product Item, Case or SKU falls in to, usually associated with temperature e.g. FROZEN, PERISHABLE, AMBIENT
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| |Recalculate Distance and Times
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| |An [[C-TMS]] function that is applied to a trip. The function checks the properties of the trip to ensure that it meets the defined rules for a trip in respect of drive times and driver’s breaks.
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| |Revenue
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| |Monies received by a cost centre from a third party such as a customer.
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| |RDC
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| |Regional Distribution Centre.
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| |RPE
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| |Regular Pallet Equivalent. A means of comparing DU Type size, for example, a Standard Roll Pallet may equate to 1 RPE, a Large Board may equate to 2 RPE’s.
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| |Schedule
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| |The period to which a set of Orders and Trips will be assigned and scheduled. Usually, but not necessarily, a single day of the week so referred to as a Schedule Date that runs from 22:00 – 22:00 e.g. Schedule Date 11th July 2002 runs from 22:00 10-July-02 to 22:00 11-July-02.
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| |Scheduled Order
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| |An Order that has been scheduled onto a Trip by the scheduling process.
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| |SKU
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| |Stock Keeping Unit – another term for a Case
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| |Sourcing Unit
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| |A second entity that can be applied to a Lane, and all charges relating to that Lane will then be applied to the Sourcing Unit and not the Customer.
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| |TI
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| |Transport Instruction – another term for an Order.
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| |Trip
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| |A routed Truck Load of goods. For example, a trip that begins at Depot 1 where an Order is loaded, then travels to Store 1 where the Order is unloaded. Typically the trip would then return to Depot 1 to terminate the trip.
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| |Trip Manipulation
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| |The manipulation of Scheduled Trips, whether it be to add a Carrier or to completely recalculate times on the Trip.
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| |Trip Stop
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| |Stops within a trip at which specific activities would take place such as the loading or unloading of goods
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| |Unscheduled Order
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| |An Order that is yet to be scheduled onto a Trip by the scheduling process.
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| |Visual Basic
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| |A fourth generation (4GL) programming language
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