Airway | three-dimensional spatial region that connects one specified location (navigation point) to another at a specified altitude, along which an aircraft may be flown |
AppraisalProcess | measurement process that involves evaluating, assessing, estimating, or judging the nature, value, importance, condition, or quality of some entity |
ArrivalProcess | material location change process that consists of the participating entity reaching its destination such that the travel or transport process which it is a part of is completed |
BillOfLading | agreement between a shipper and a carrier that prescribes some consigning process |
Cargo | material entity that is transported using a transport equipment by a carrier |
CargoRole | role held by a material entity when it is being transported or is planned to be transported by a carrier |
Carrier | person or business organization who provides transportation services |
Change | process in which some independent continuant endures and 1) one or more of the dependent entities it bears increase or decrease in intensity, 2) the entity begins to bear some dependent entity or 3) the entity ceases to bear some dependent entity |
Consignee | person or business organization that receives some shipment |
ConsigneeRole | role held by a person or business organization when it receives a shipment from a carrier and owns the shipment after the receipt |
ConsigningProcess | business process that results in placing a material entity in the possession of some agent without changing the ownership until the material entity is sold |
ConsignorRole | role held by a business organization or person when it prepares, initiates, and consigns a shipment it owns |
Container | material artifact designed to hold, protect, and facilitate the transport of goods across one or more modes of transportation |
DepartureProcess | material location change process that consists of the participating entity leaving its starting location such that the travel or transport process it is a part of is initiated |
DistributionCenter | storage facility designed to store manufactured products that are to be distributed to resellers and wholesalers |
Distributor | person or business organization when it purchases products from manufacturers and resells them to wholesalers |
DistributorRole | role held by a person or business organization when it buys some material products from a manufacturer and resells them to a wholesaler |
Facility | engineered system that consists of buildings, structures, roads, machines, and equipment desgined to provide certain capabilities |
Factory | facility that is designed for manufacturing products and includes one or more production systems |
FreightContainer | A container that is designed to enclose, protect, and enable the transport of one or more material entities across multiple modes of transportation |
FreightForwarder | person or business organization when it arranges the transportation of shipments on behalf of the shipper (consignor) or consignee |
FreightForwarderRole | logistics service provider role held by an agent when it arranges the transportation of shipments on behalf of the shipper (consignor) or consignee |
FreightForwardingBusinessFunction | business function that is realized in a freight forwarding service |
FreightForwardingProcess | business process of planning and coordinating the transportation of material products on behalf of a shipper |
FreightForwardingService | logistics service that consists of at least one freight forwarding process |
GeospatialLocation | geospatial site that is the location of some material entity at some time or the site of some process |
GeospatialSite | site at or near the surface of the earth |
GlobalLocationNumber | identifer that uniquely identifies a business organization or a geospatial location and complies with GS1 GLN coding scheme |
GroupOfSuppliers | group of agents involved in trading and other business relationships with one another during the operation of specific supply chains |
IndustrialInventory | material product, material component, raw material, or material artifact that is ready to be sold or used and is stored in a storage facility or on factory floor |
IndustrialInventoryRole | role held by some material entity when it is stored by a bussiness organization and it is intended to be supplied to a customer or to be used or consumed in some product production process |
Industry | group of organizations that are related based on their primary business activities |
IntegratedCarrierBusinessOrganization | business organization that is created for the purpose of providing different types of transportation and freight forwarding services |
InventoryManagementProcess | business process that consists of the activities required for controlling, tracking, recording, and planning inventories |
Load | collection of material entities which share the same transportation and transfer history |
LoadRole | traceable resource unit role held by a number of material entities that have been transferred or transported together |
LocationIdentificationScheme | identification scheme that prescribes how unique identifiers of physical locations are formulated |
LocationRole | role held by a geospatial site when it is the location of some material entity at some time or the site of some process |
LogisticUnit | material entities packaged together for transport or storage |
LogisticUnitRole | traceable resource unit role held by a number of material entities that are packaged together for transport or storage |
LogisticsProcess | business process composed of one or more processes such as transport, shipment preparation, storage, or receiving that are coordinated to enable the movement, handling, or distribution of material entities across one or more locations within a supply chain |
LogisticsService | commercial service that consists of at least one transport process, packaging process, freight forwarding, or storage process |
LogisticsServiceProviderRole | service provider role that is held by a business organization or person when it provides a logistics service |
Lot | quantity of material entities produced together and sharing the same production history and specifications |
LotIdentifier | identifier that uniquely denotes a particular quantity of material entities that have shared production or transformation history |
LotRole | traceable resource unit role held by material entities that have a shared production or transformation history |
Make-To-OrderProductionCapability | production capability to manufacture some material artifact only after a confirmed customer order is received |
Make-To-StockProductionCapability | production capability to manufacture and store some product to fulfill the expected incoming orders or forcasted demand |
ManufacturingService | commercial service that consists of at least one manufacturing process |
ManufacturingServiceProviderRole | service provider role that is held by a person or business organization when it provides a manufacturing service |
ManufacturingSupplyChain | supply chain system that is formed to manufacture one or more products |
PackagingPlanSpecification | plan specification that prescribes a packaging process |
PackagingProcess | business process of putting some products or some portion of material into a package according to a packaging plan specification |
PackagingService | logistics service that consists of at lest one packaging process |
PackagingServiceProviderRole | logisitics service provider role held by a business organization or person when it provides a packaging service |
PieceofTransportEquipment | material artifact which has a ransport equipment role |
ProductionCapability | capability of an agent or a system that is realized in a product production process |
PurchaseOrder | agreement between a buyer and a vendor (supplier) that that contains a set of commitments on the buyer and the vendeor |
ReceivingProcess | planned process in which an agent receives some material entity from another agent |
Retailer | person or business organization who buys products from wholesalers and manufacturers and resells them to end users |
RetailerRole | role held by a person or business organization when it buys products (material product) from manufacturers or wholesalers and offers them for sale to customers who are the end users of the product |
Seaway | three-dimensional spatial region that connects one specified location to another on a body of water along which a watercraft may travel |
ServiceConsumerRole | customer role held by a person or business organization when it receives and consumes a service |
ServiceSupplyChain | supply chain system that is formed to deliver some commercial services |
ShipFromLocation | geospatial location at which some dispatch process occurs |
ShipFromLocationRole | location role held by a geospatial site when it is the location at which some dispatch process occures |
ShipToLocation | geospatial location in which some receiving process occurs |
ShipToLocationRole | location role held by a geospatial site when it is the location at which some receiving process occures |
Shipment | collection of material entities delivered to a receiver’s location that have undergone the same dispatch and receipt processes |
ShipmentPlanSpecification | plan specification that prescribes a shipment preparation process and a transportation process |
ShipmentPreparationProcess | business process in which some material entities are prepared to be transported together to a receiver’s location. |
ShipmentRole | traceable resource unit role held by material entities when they undergo the same dispatch and receipt processes as prescribed by a bill of lading |
ShipmentState | material state in which a shipment that participates in the state has a condition that remains unchanged |
Shipper | person or business organization that prepares and sends shipments for transport |
ShippingRoute | way (three-dimensional spatial region) that connects two or more supply chain nodes along which some shipment travels during a transport process |
StorageCapability | capability of an agent or a system that is realized in a storage process |
StorageFacility | facility that is designed to store materials or goods |
StorageProcess | planned process of putting and keeping material entities in a specified location for future use |
StorageService | logistics service that consists of at least one storage process |
StorageServiceProviderRole | logisitics service provider role that is held by a person or business organization when it provides a storage service |
SupplierEvaluationProcess | apprasial process that involves evaluating, assessing, estimating, or judging the capabilities of a person or organization that is intended to become a member of a supply chain |
SupplyChainAgent | person or business organization who supplies material products or commercial services to other agents in a supply chain |
SupplyChainAgentRole | role held by an agent that is a part of a supply chain system when it supplies material products or commercial services to other agents in the supply chain system |
SupplyChainNode | geospatial location that is the site of some supply chain process |
SupplyChainNodeRole | location role held by a geospatial site when it is the site some supply chain process |
SupplyChainObjectiveSpecification | objective specification that prescribes what the outcome of a supply chain process should be |
SupplyChainPlanSpecification | plan specification that has one or more supply chain objective specifications as parts and that prescribes a supply chain process |
SupplyChainProcess | planned process in which a supply chain plan specification is realized by a number of supply chain agents |
SupplyChainSystem | engineered system composed of agents, facilties, machines, and information systems that is designed to deliver products and services to end customers through an engineered flow of information, material, and cash |
SupplyChainTransportProcess | transport process which involves movement of goods between sending trading party’s location and receiving trading party’s locations over the public logistics pathway/infrastructure |
SupplyRelationship | relationship that exists between two agents when one agent supplies a product or service to another agent and that is prescribed by an agreement |
SystemCapability | capability that inheres in a system to the extent of the system’s capacity to realize it in some processes |
Traceability | capability of a system to trace the history, application or location of an object |
TraceableResourceUnit | material entity that is uniquely identified and there may be a need to retrieve information about its history, application, or location as it moves through a supply chain |
TraceableResourceUnitRole | role held by a number of uniquely identified material entities when they participate in some supply chain processes or production processes while some agent observes them and collects information about them for future retrieval |
TrackingEvent | event that has at least one traceable resource unit or equipment (with which TRU comes into contact with) or operator (that runs an equipment with which TRU comes into contact with at some time) as participant . |
Trailer | container that is unpowered and is pulled by a powered vehicle |
TranspoortEquipmentRole | equipment role held by a material artifact when it is planned to be involved in or is involved in carrying out some part of a transport process |
TransportProcess | material location change process involving the movement of material entities from one location to another as part of a planned logistics process |
TransportationBusinessFunction | business function that is realized in a transportation service |
TransportationService | logistics service that consists of at least one transport process |
TransportationServiceProviderRole | logisitics service provider role that is held by a business organization or person when it provides a transportation service |
TravelProcess | material location change process wherein one or more persons move between geographical locations |
Wagon | container in a rail transport system used for carrying cargo or passengers |
WarehousingPlanSpecification | plan specification that prescribes a warehousing process |
WarehousingProcess | business process of storing products (material products) in a storage facility for future use |
Wholesaler | person or business organization that buys products from distributors and resells them to retailers or other business organizations |
WholesalerRole | role held by a person or business organization when it buys some product from a distributor and resells them to retailers |