shipment preparation process
IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/ShipmentPreparationProcess
Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/supplychain/SupplyChain/
SubClass Of: business process
Class Hierarchy
owl:Thing › bfo:entity › bfo:occurrent › bfo:process › planned process › business process › shipment preparation process
Definition
business process in which some material entities are prepared to be transported together to a receiver’s location.
Explanatory Notes
The activities related to preparation of outgoing shipment for transport. Shipment preparation process (shipping) often includes at least one picking, internal movement, packaging, marking, labeling, weighing, or loading process.
Examples
- A tile manufacturer’s warehouse receives several order and generates a picking list for each order. Then the warehouse workers pick the tile boxes from the assigned inventory location. Warehouse workers then pack, label, and sort the products by carrier before moving them to the loading dock for shipping.
Synonyms
- dispatch process
Primitive Class
This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.
Primitive Rationale
The required constructs for creation of a formal definition are not available in this release.
Formal Axioms
First-Order Logic Axioms
ShipmentPreparationProcess(x) → BusinessProcess(x) ∧ ∃c∃m∃s(Consignor(c) ∧ MaterialProduct(m) ∧ Shipment(s) ∧ hasParticipantAtSomeTime(x,c) ∧ hasParticipantAtSomeTime(x,m) ∧ hasSpecifiedOutput(x,s))
Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms
if x is a ‘shipment preparation process’ then x is a ‘business process’ and ‘has participant at some time’ some ‘consignor’ and ‘has participant at some time’ some ‘material product’ and ‘has specified output’ some ‘shipment’
Description Logic
constr:ShipmentPreparationProcess ⊑ ⊤
constr:ShipmentPreparationProcess ⊑ constr:BusinessProcess ⊓ ∃ bfo:has_participant_at_some_time .constr:MaterialProduct ⊓ ∃ bfo:has_participant_at_some_time .constr:Shipper ⊓ ∃ constr:hasSpecifiedOutput .constr:Shipment
SubClassOf: owl:Thing
SubClassOf: constr:BusinessProcess and bfo:has_participant_at_some_time some constr:MaterialProduct and bfo:has_participant_at_some_time some constr:Shipper and constr:hasSpecifiedOutput some constr:Shipment