OTM Glossary:

Actions
Actions are functions that you can perform for a business object. For example, Build Shipment, Release Order, and
so on. Actions always appear on the Results page for a business object; however, not all business objects have
actions.

Actual Capacity Usage

The number of shipments (or equipments in multi-equipment scenario) that have been tendered and accepted by a
service provider by Capacity Group,  Time Period, Lane, and Equipment Type.

Ad Hoc Reports
Ad hoc reports are easily customized reports generated by Oracle Discoverer from specified metadata in the OTM
database. Run from the Report Manager, ad hoc reports cover orders, shipments, and other topics, and can be
exported in HTML or Microsoft Excel format.

Adjustment Flat
Increase any rate offering that includes this quality factor ID by a flat penalty of the Adjustment Flat value. For an
Adjustment Flat of 200 with a Currency set to US Dollars, OTM would increase the rate by $200. You could also
enter -200 as the Adjustment Flat to achieve a lower rate.

Agent Gates
Receive external events and tests for their validity. After confirmation, they set the internal status and raise the
appropriate event.

Allocation
Allocation is the process by which the transportation costs of shipments are apportioned to their component orders.
Allocation is performed by order and then by line items within the order. You can allocate planned or paid costs,
and you can allocate shipments individually or in bulk. Allocation metrics include weight, volume, and piece counts.

Allocation Metric Definition

A set of specifications and algorithms that determine how planned and actual transportation expenses are allocated
for line items and orders.

Allocation Rule
A set of user-selected metrics that specify how planned and actual transportation costs are to be allocated.
Allocation Rules govern both line-item and order-based allocation, and must be grouped into Allocation Rule
Profiles to be applied to Service Providers.

Assignment Milestone
The assignment milestone determines when a milestone monitor is created and assigned to a shipment based on
the events recorded for its agent.

Auto-Pay Invoice
An invoice that is automatically generated by OTM from buy-side shipments, for service providers that do not
supply their own invoices.

Auto Approve Rule

A set of criteria for the approval of payment invoices. Auto Approve Rules include absolute cost and weight limits
and allowable percentages above and below the Shipment Actuals.

Batch
A group of orders or freight.

Batching
Grouping of orders/freight for warehouse management wave planning purposes based on the time required to
process the orders and the timing/delivery of the order to their destinations.

Best Direct Cost

The cost of shipping an order without the use of cross docks, consolidation, continuous moves, and so on.
Bill of Lading
The Bill of Lading is a shipping document that serves as a contract, receipt, and evidence of title between service
providers for a particular shipment. A correct bill of lading ensures an accurate invoice, and subsequently, accurate
freight charges.

Bill Source
The method by which a customer bill was entered into OTM: manually (M), via integration (I) from an external
database, or generated (G) by OTM.

Booking
Booking is the process of communicating to the voyage carrier, loading port operator, and discharge port operator
the aggregate booking line items on the voyage.

Broadcast Tender
Broadcast tender is a term used to describe sending tender requests to multiple service providers.  This is different
from a Spot Bid Tender in that the intent of shotgun tendering is to find a service provider quickly to cover a \"hot\"
shipment.

Business Monitor
is a workspace that shows a list of predefined Saved Queries that are run for specific business objects at specific
time intervals. The results of each saved query appear as a number of matching records which you can click to
review the details.

Business Object
generic term representing data such as an order, order release, shipment, rate, service provider, invoice, bill,
location, and so on.

Buy Shipment
Represents a shipment from the perspective of shipment services bought from a logistics service provider. The Buy
Shipment reflects the full shipment planning process and includes all activity for the movement of freight.

Capacity Commitment
Represents the stated or implied commitment of the �shipper� to provide a transportation service provider with a
defined level of business for a specified time period, geography and equipment type.

Capacity Group
A capacity group is a list of one or more rate offerings for the same service provider. 

Capacity Limit
The number of shipments that can be executed by a service provider by: Capacity group, Time Period, Lane,
Equipment Type.

Capacity Usage
Total of Actual Capacity Usage and Planned Capacity Usage.

Carried Distance
In multi-stop shipments, the cumulative distance that an order or item travels from its origin to its destination,
consisting of the sum of the distances between the stops that it traveled. Compare to Direct Distance.

Charter Voyage
A charter voyage is a sea transport movement by a carrier from a loading port to a discharge port.

Circle Method
The Circle Method is a way of calculating straight line distance while taking into consideration the curvature of the
earth. So, if given the latitude and longitude of 2 specific locations, OTM can pinpoint their spot on the circle, and
use it to determine the distance between the two points.

Circuity
The out of route mileage for any stop-offs as compared to total origin to destination percent of total or flat amount.
Applies when a flat charge is present for a given move. This concept is important for rate calculation, as follows: In
order to prevent a shipper from artificially minimizing their costs on a multi-stop trip, users can create circuity
penalties and limitations. The problem arises when the shipper has a multi-stop trip with a per-mile rate.
Traditionally this is charged as the number of miles between the first stop to the last (not the total distance driven,
but the distance between the two points). So if a shipper has a trip from Philadelphia to Dallas to Baltimore, the rate
would be based on the 100 miles between Philadelphia and Baltimore, not the 3000 actually driven. One method of
preventing or accounting for this is through circuity charges, where the carrier limits the out-of-route distance or
charges a premium for it.

COFC
An abbreviation for Container on a Flat Car, describing a mode of rail shipment.

Commodity
A mechanism for grouping items (a.k.a material) with similar transport mode and equipment requirements.
Commodities are a classification of items that you ship and need to be created using the Material Manager. When
creating a new commodity, you can specify if it needs to have a temperature control (i.e., must be kept at or below
freezing), what the mode of transportation is (i.e., by land, by rail, etc.), or if it requires a special type of equipment
(i.e. must be on a refrigerated truck).

Compartment
An enclosed or open area or areas of storage within a single piece of equipment.

Conditionally Required Fields

In addition to required fields, there are also conditionally-required fields that must be completed depending on
whether an entry was made the in field immediately to its left. These fields display a small asterisk. Notice in the
example below that the Order Reference Qualifier is conditionally required which means that it must be completed
if you choose to enter an order reference number/ID.

Consignee
The person or carrier to which a shipment of materials is entrusted. Also referred to as the customer. OTM allows
external entities to enter orders, modify orders, and track orders in the system using the Customers/Consignees
role on the OTM home page.

Consol
A business object that is used to represent the capacity limits and bookings for a voyage stowage mode.

Consol Shipment
A shipment created from a Consol that is used for charter voyage transportation.

Consolidation Center
A facility where inbound LTL shipments are unloaded and consolidated into outbound TL shipments.

Consolidation Pool
A location where shipments within a particular region are sent for re-planning prior to further distribution and
delivery to customers. 

Continuous Moves
Two or more separate TL shipments are tendered to the same service provider with the assumption that the
specified service provider utilizes the same driver/team and/or truck and/or trailer for the shipments. Service
Providers provide discounted rates for continuous move shipments because these shipments improve their
resource utilization and profitability.

Corporation
Corporations are parent records to which locations and service providers are attached. This allows you to group
associated locations or service providers. For example, a company may have multiple offices. You could create
one corporation record for the company, and then attach all office locations to it. Later, you can search for all
locations attached to a specific corporation, simplifying order and shipment planning.

Credit Check
The purpose of this functionality is to assign credit-related external statuses both to locations as well as orders
pending release that include those locations. Orders can be held, approved, or declined based on these external
statuses. These statuses can be changed through manual or automated processes against both orders and
locations.

Cross-Dock
A location where freight is consolidated for assembly into shipments or de-consolidated for further distribution and
delivery to customers.

CSV
Comma separated value. Also known as comma delimited. A record layout that separates data fields with a comma
and usually surrounds character data with quotes. For example: \"Pat Smith\",\"Main St.\",\"New
Hope\",\"PA\",\"18950\", \"K. Jones\",\"34 8th Ave.\",\"Syosset\",\"NY\",\"11724\".

Currency Exchange Rate

The conversion ratio between pairs of currencies.

Customer Bill
A document that records charges and other information regarding the transportation services provided in one or
more sell shipments.

De-consolidation Pool
Shipments with destinations in the region of the de-consolation pool are candidates for de-consolidation planning
before they are sent to their destination locations.

Declared Value
The declared value associated with a particular item.

Destination
A physical place where an order is delivered. It can include such places as airports, ports, rail ramps/yards,
container pool locations, distributors, assembly points, plants, vendors, and more.

Dimensional Girth
In OTM, girth is calculated as length + (2xWidth + 2xHeight).

Direct Distance
The distance that an order or item travels in a single stop from its origin to its destination. Compare to Carried
Distance.

Distance
May be straight line or practical measure. A practical measure uses roadway miles that represent actual distance
travelled.

Dock
A collection of doors in a warehouse or distribution center where trucks or rail cars are loaded and/or unloaded.

Domain
A domain is a unique name that typically identifies a company. The purpose of a domain is to provide the ability to
keep company data separate and secure from other company data in a shared, web-based environment.

Domestic Packing List

Provides a list of all items on an order delineated by shipping unit. The domestic packing list is primarily used by
the receiver to determine the contents of his order.

Door
Physical door in a warehouse where a trailer is loaded. Doors are assigned to the orders that are processed in the
warehouse so that the warehouse management system (WMS) knows where the product is to be staged and
loaded.

Drive Time
The amount of time during which a shipment is being driven from one location to another.

Dynamic Batch
Product that is Dynamic Batch product, unlike Fixed Batched and Semi-Fixed batched product, can be assigned to
the best batch/door in the grid based on transportation opportunities. 

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

The transfer of data between different companies using networks such as the Internet. EDI is a standard message
type used by the transportation industry. Select this method of communication if you plan to use webMethods to
convert XML messages to an EDI format. OTM does not support direct EDI communication at this time.

Estimation Method
If you select the estimation method to calculate distance, OTM determines distance based on the latitude and
longitude of the locations you specify.

Exception Milestone
An exception milestone handles events derived as a result of:  receiving either a planned milestone that creates an
unexpected condition, or  never receiving any event subscribed to by a planned milestone denoted as mandatory.

Execution Milestone
The execution milestone determines which events are monitored and passed to the planned, unplanned, and
exception milestones for interest and action.

Expected Transit Time

The total amount of time that a shipment is planned take to perform its related activity.

Explanation
An Explanation provides a standard view of process results such as the running of actions, creation of new records,
agent processing, etc. Explanations can be used to diagnose algorithm behavior, report errors, trace agent activity
or simply report on the success and failure of a background process.

External Predicate
An element in a VPD Profile that specifies restrictions applying to a table.

External Rating Engine

OTM provides the ability to take existing rates from an external rating engine called Rateware (referred to as SMC),
and use them with OTM to create shipments. Rateware performs rate lookups and calculations while using multiple
tariff tables.  Then OTM can request those rates and make them part of rate offerings within the Rate Manager.

Favorites
Favorites are records that users select, for convenience, to appear at the top of appropriate Search Results.

FEU
Forty-foot Equivalent Unit

Fixed Batch
Product that is Fixed Batched must be assigned to the batch that coincides with the Relative Batch Number defined
for the distribution center (DC) and Store on the order. Fixed Batch product is cross-docked at the mainline DC. To
coordinate the receiving and cross-docking of Fixed product at the mainline DC, the batch numbers are pre-
assigned, and the cartons involved are pre-labeled with the fixed batch number (relative batch number) at the
origin.

Flash Point
This is the lowest temperature at which the vapor of the hazardous material may ignite if the material is a liquid.
Select K for Kelvin, F for Fahrenheit, or C for Centigrade as the temperature type.

Flex Commodity
This is a profile of commodities which may or may not share similar qualities, but can be grouped and added to a
rate offering or itinerary leg.

Freight Charge
Part of the Freight Rate, and is used to identify the charge associated with the freight.

Freight Rate Qualifier

Part of the Freight Rate, and is used to qualify how to extend charges.

Freight Terms
Identifies the manner in which payment is made on a particular shipment. Example: the payment method FOB
(freight on board) indicates that the shipper has the shipment until the shipment has been delivered.
Function Group
A function group is a collection of related features and functions that can be assigned to a User Level and
subsequently to users. Function groups represent standard sets of functionality such as order management, user
management, itinerary management, rate management, and so on.

GID
A global identifier that OTM uses to define various types of information (e.g., orders, shipments, locations, payment
vouchers, etc.).

Gross Weight/Volume
Gross Weight/Volume would include all product and packaging weight. Gross weight/volume is typically used for
transportation planning. It may be used for rating in most cases.

Hazardous Material
(taken from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Transportation Program Web site). Any solid, liquid, or
gaseous material that is toxic, flammable, radioactive, corrosive, chemically reactive, or unstable upon prolonged
storage in quantities that could pose a threat to life, property, or the environment (this definition is applicable to
Department of Energy orders and is not to be confused with the term \"hazardous material substance\" defined in
Section 101(14) of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 and in
[40CFR300.6]). Also defined by 49 Code of Federal Regulations 171.8 as a substance or material designated by
the Secretary of Transportation to be capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when
transported in commerce and which has been so designated.

Host Name
A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network, including the Internet. Each host has a unique IP address and
host name.

HS Name
This is a short name for the item classification associated with the classification ID.

IATA
IATA (International Air Transport Association) is the trade association of the world's international airline industry.

INCO Term
Industry standard terms which define how payments are made

Indicator
Indicators are green, yellow, and red icons that can appear in search Result pages and in lists to mark the
condition or status of a business object. Indicators can be applied to business objects manually (via the Set
Indicator action) or automatically (via workflow agents). The meanings of indicators are user determined.

INE
A shipment status transmission.

Infeasible Shipment
OTM cannot plan a shipment which, meets the requirements described on the order(s). For example, the order
cannot arrive at the destination location by the delivery date.

INO
A transportation order (transorder) transmission.

INS
A shipment transmission.

Integration
The process for sending and receiving information from systems outside OTM.

Interline Shipment
A buy shipment involving two or more rail carriers. Interline shipments can be governed by Rule 11.

International Commercial Shipping Terms (INCO)

An INCO term provides definitions for delivery points, loading and unloading obligations and customs clearance. If
the payment method for the shipment requires an INCO term, the INCO term abbreviation displays. If an INCO
term is not used for the shipment, the field remains blank. The standard industry INCO Terms delivered with OTM
can be viewed in the Order Management Power Data option. INCO terms are recognized worldwide as an
indisputable evidence of the responsibilities of buyers and sellers for delivery under a sales contract. INCO terms
provide definitions for delivery points, loading and unloading obligations, customs clearance, and risk of loss.

Invoice
An invoice documents charges and other information regarding the transportation services provided in one or more
shipments. In OTM, an invoice is distinguished from a bill. Invoices are issued by service providers and represent
Account Payable charges. Bills are issued to customers and are Account Receivables.

IP Address
A number that uniquely identifies a computer on a TCP/IP or UDP/IP network. An IP address is a 32-bit numeric
address written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For example, 102.3.5.78
can be an IP address.

Item Remarks
Provides a place to log any extraneous information you might want to keep with an item. It's used for informational
purposes only.

Itinerary
Defines the planned route for shipments. In addition, itineraries can identify the mode, service provider, equipment,
available delivery hours, rates, and commodities associated with a particular destination.

Landed Cost
The actual cost of an item shipped overseas, including tariffs, taxes, and other costs at destinations worldwide.

Lane
Connects two geographic points. Lanes are associated with rate records to help establish the costs associated with
traveling between particular locations or areas. The geographic points can be specific, such as a street address, or
more general, such as a city, state country, or region.

Latitude
The angular distance north or south, from the equator measured at 90 degrees. Latitude values are included in
OTM with zip code and postal codes. If you enter a new postal code or zip code, you can enter a longitude value
for it in Power Data. Latitude is used with longitude to pinpoint an exact location.

LDAP
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) enables users and applications to store, modify, and retrieve
information stored in LDAP-compliant directories. For system-wide access and security, OTM can use LDAP to
verify user names and passwords at login.

Leg
Defines a destination for shipment activity on an itinerary and may establish requirements associated destination.
For example, you can associate scheduling priorities, intermediate stops, service providers, costs, commodities,
and modes of transport as requirements for a particular leg.

LIFO
Acronym for Last In First Out, meaning that the last product picked up must be delivered before any other products
on the equipment are delivered. Equipment may be loaded and completely emptied multiple times within one LIFO
shipment. For example, P1-P2 - D2 - P3 - D3 - D1 is a valid sequence.  Prior to 5.5.04, LIFO meant that all pickups
occurred before all deliveries.

Line Haul
Cost of delivering from first pickup location to the last delivery location, as defined on the Rate Costs page of the
Rate Record. That is, not counting any extra fees like accessorials.

Line Item
A line item is the material that you are shipping from one place to another.

Load Duration
The amount of time spent loading a shipment. The duration is figured by using the Beginning Loading Time and
Ending Loading Time.

Loaded Distance
Identifies the distance that the shipment travels carrying goods.

Longitude
Position the earth's surface, measured east or west. Longitude values are included in OTM with zip code and
postal codes. If you enter a new postal code or zip code, you can define a longitude value for it in Power Data.
Longitude is used with latitude to pinpoint an exact location.

LTL (Less-Than-Truckload)
Less than a full trailer of freight.

Match Rule
A set of criteria for matching payment invoices to buy-side shipments. Match Rules include Service Providers,
Shipment Reference Number Qualifiers, and other criteria.

Merge
When two are more shipments are combined into a single shipment.

Mileage (Capacity)
This is the maximum number of miles that a service provider can transport a shipment to fulfill their capacity
commitment.

Mode
Refer to Transportation mode.

Multi-stop Itinerary
A multi-stop itinerary defines a single destination on a multi-stop shipment. Each multi-stop shipment uses more
than one multi-stop itinerary. 

Multi-stop Shipment
A shipment that includes more than two locations. A multiple stop shipment contains order releases that have more
than one pickup and delivery locations.

Multi-Tiered Distribution Network

Includes the use of intermediate points - cross-docks, consolidation centers, deconsolidation centers - in the course
of transporting freight from origin to final destination.

NameSpace
A NameSpace represents a group of user names. Each NameSpace also specifies the LDAP server, directory, and
protocol version to be used in verifying user names and passwords. When logging into OTM, users can select a
custom NameSpace or the default.

Net Weight
The weight of both the shipment and the equipment.

Net Weight/Volume
Net Weight/Volume would be that of a product without any handling units or packaging. For some shippers this
would include the weight/volume of the carton. However, the net weight/volume may define the quantity of usable
product. In all cases, it does not include the weight/volume of the ship unit such as a pallet.

NFRC
See Non-freight related charge

NMFC
National Motor Freight Classifications. A standardized method to identify all types of freight that could possibly be
moved by truck. This classification system is used exclusively by the Less-than-truckload (LTL) industry in the
United States. The National Motor Freight Classification is a pricing tool that provides a comparison of commodities
moving in interstate and intrastate transport. Based on an evaluation of density, stowability, ease of handling and
liability, the commodities are grouped into one of 18 classes. The NMFC provides both carriers and shippers with a
standard by which to begin pricing negotiations and greatly simplifies the comparative evaluation of the many
thousands of products moving in today's marketplace.

NMFT
National Motor Freight Traffic Association

Notify Subject
Notify Subject is a software process that represents a specific OTM event. For example, Order Base - Created is a
Notify Subject that indicates that a user has created an order base. Notify Subjects are used to configure
notifications to users when specific events occur.

NVOCC
(Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier) Smaller shippers, with less-than-container-load (LCL) shipments, can
take advantage of the lower costs associated with being a big shipper. Non-vessel operating common carriers
(NVOCCs) book space on steamships in large quantities at lower rates and sell space to shippers in smaller
amounts. NVOCCs consolidate small shipments into container-loads that move under one bill of lading. More
favorable rates are passed on to the shipper. Services typically offered by NVOCCs, in addition to customary
services provided by freight forwarders, are: Consolidation of freight, and Financial liability for goods due to loss or
damage during transport. NVOCCs operate as carriers and should be evaluated by applying the same service,
price, and delivery standards.

OAG
OAG (www.oag.com) is the world's leading independent provider of travel information products and services,
offering business travelers, corporations and the global travel industry the information necessary to make effective
travel-planning decisions.

Order Base
An order base is any order that requires the transportation from one location to another. A order base is the most
comprehensive order that you can enter in OTM and provides the most detail for defining attributes such as
multiple source/destination locations, line items or ship units, specific equipment requirements, transportation
modes, service providers, rates, and so on.

Order Movement
An order movement is a portion of an order that corresponds to a leg of an itinerary.

Order Release
An order release is an order or part of an order that is ready for transportation planning and execution. A release
may be a partial line of an order or several lines or several partial lines.

Order Template
An order template is an order that has predefined data such as a source/destination location, packaged data, line
items, accessorials, remarks, reference numbers, and involved party. The planner can design these templates
using the Order Manager for any domain. Customers that use the Order Entry option can use a template as the
basis for a new order.

Origin
The location defined from which an order release or shipment is picked up. A location represents a physical place.
A location can include such places as airports, ports, rail ramps/yards, container pool locations, distributors,
assembly points, plants, vendors, and more.

Package Type
The Package Type is the most important level of detail required to create a packaged item. It is a ship unit that is
measured in as precise a manner as possible for the item, and it can represent different stock-keeping units (or
SKUs) for the same item depending on your role in the shipment transport process.

Packaged Item
A packaged item is a shippable unit of primary packaging items.  An item is a good or commodity entered in
Material Manager and used to populate an order. For example, an item called frozen peas could be contained in a
large box with 100 smaller boxes contained in that large box. The large box is a packaged item. This information is
used to produce a packing list and Bill of Lading for shipment transport.

Packing List
An itemized list of all items on an order, delineated by shipping unit. It describes all items within the shipping unit.
Packing lists are primarily used by shippers to determine the contents of customer orders.

Parent Invoice
An invoice from which another invoice (the \"child\") is derived.

Payment Voucher
A payment voucher is an authorization to pay a service provider invoice. Payment vouchers can be issued
manually for individual invoices or issued automatically for multiple invoices. Payment vouchers don't actually pay
invoices. That is done by an Accounts Receivable system after payment vouchers have been issued.

Perspective
Assign buy-side and sell-side activity for shipment processing. OTM uses this information when determining billing.
The following values are available: Buy - Use only when buying shipment services. Buy shipment services from
service providers; you expect to receive a bill from a service provider; Sell - Use only when selling shipment
services to customers; you plan to send a bill to the customer; All - Use when buying and selling shipment services.

Pickup Notification
Occurs when a shipment is contracted to a service provider without a tender response being sent from the service
provider to the planner. For example, small package shipments sent by a parcel post carrier generally do not
require a tender response.

Pickup Stops
The number of stops allowed in this rate for picking up orders.

Planned Capacity Usage

The number of shipments that are planned or have outstanding tenders for a service provider by: Capacity group,
Time Period, Lane, Equipment Type.

Planned Cost
The cost of shipping an order after it has been consolidated.

Planned Milestone
A planned milestone represents the event(s) that expect to occur and the action(s) that you want to execute in
response to those events.

Pre-Booking
Pre-booking is a process of reserving capacity on the voyage by stowage mode for a given order base.  It only
identifies the amount of storage needed by stowage mode for a given voyage.  In OTM terms, pre-bookings are
associated to line-items on an Order Base.  Order release information may not be available at the time pre-booking
process is done.  In a manufacturing environment, pre-booking information helps the manufacturing facilities plan
their batch sizes according to what is pre-booked on the voyages.

Primary Packaging
This is the level of packaging for the item contained inside the packaged item. For example, an item called frozen
peas could be contained in a large box with 100 smaller boxes contained in that large box. The 100 boxes of peas
are the primary packaging. This information is used to produce a packing list and Bill of Lading for shipment
transport.

Public Data
Public data is widely available information that has been pre-entered into OTM for your convenience. Examples of
public data are country codes, calendar definitions, airports, and INCO terms. To search for public data, enter
Public as the domain from any Search page. Public data can be viewed by all users regardless of their domains.
Public data cannot be edited or deleted.

Radius Emphasis
Defines the activity at the location defined by the location radius. The radius emphasis can represent an order
source, and order destination, or a leg location.

Rail Junction
A Location Role specifying that a location serves as the junction between the two rail carriers of a Rule 11
shipment.
Rate Distance
Rate distance is used to determine the distance from one point to another. OTM uses the information provided in
rate distance to determine how to calculate the distance based on the distance type and taking into account cutoff
values for estimating purposes. Rate Distance is used to either estimate or lookup distance when calculating a rate
or simulating service time.

Rate Geo
Rate Geo is another name for rate record.

Rate Group
OTM allows you to identify and define groups of rates that have some similar attributes using Rate Groups. A rate
group consists of an ID and a Name. The groups are created in Power Data but specific rates are assigned in the
Rate Manager.

Rate Offering
Defines a contract with a service provider that determines the cost for transporting a shipment.

Rate Offering Stops

Identifies locations associated with a particular rate offering. A rate offering is a contract with a service provider that
determines the cost for transporting a shipment.

Rate Quality Factor

Rate Quality Factors help to weigh rate offerings and are used to ensure that rates from certain or selected service
providers do not qualify for a shipment. You may increase a rate by a certain percentage or flat fee so that the rate
does not meet cost requirements. Rate quality factors do not affect the actual cost to ship and are only used in
qualifying a shipment.

Rate Service
A group of options used to identify how transit times are calculated by OTM. Rate Service determines the time in
transit based on the Rate Service Type and taking into account other factors that may come into play, such as rest
periods.

Rate Service Speed

A group of options used to determine the average speed at which a vehicle moves while transporting goods from
one point to another. OTM needs the Service Speed when using the Rate Service Type of Simulation. This figure
can then be used with the distance value to determine how long it takes to transport a shipment.

Rate Zone Service Time

A rate zone service time is used to determine the time required to transport goods within a specified area.

Recovery Time
The amount of time a delivery must wait at the destination before it can be picked up.

Region
A user-defined geographic area. A region may be any size area you want that has meaning for your business. Use
regions when defining any of the following: itineraries, rate offerings, rate records, and rate inquiry. For example,
create a region called \"Mid-Atlantic\" and include all the mid-Atlantic states, then create an itinerary to carry goods
from the Mid-Atlantic Region to Chicago.

Report Group
A list of related reports that appear together in the Report Manager or the Reports option of another Manager (for
example, Exception Reports or Shipment Reports). Report groups are managed in Power Data.

Report Set
A list of reports for auto-generation and notification purposes. A report set can consist of any auto-generated
reports, and is sent via email or other notification method as a set.

Rest Time
The amount of time during which a driver is required to rest before continuing on to the next location associated
with a shipment.

Route
The path actually traveled by a shipment. See also Itinerary.

Route Code
Rail Route Codes can be created to define a route along a railroad between one point and another, including any
junction points along the way.

Route Sequence Number

Code describing the relationship of a carrier to a specific shipment movement. Example, 1, 2, 3.

Rule 11 Instruction
A field that indicates whether or not Rule 11 applies to a leg of an itinerary or rail shipment. The instruction can
designate the tendered first leg or subsequent non-tendered legs of a Rule 11 shipment.

Rule 7 Applies
Identifies notification stating that the service provider is not responsible for freight charges.

Rule Definition
A picture string that defines the elements and syntax of a Business Number Rule. Rule Definitions typically consist
of one of more instructions that have the this structure: sequence:argument=value, in which a sequence of
characters is defined by an argument and value.

Saved Condition
One or more saved queries that contain search criteria; similar to those you can create for most business objects.

Saved Query
Contains the search and sort parameters for a specific, user-defined query.

SCAC
Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC). A SCAC identifies a Service Provider. The SCAC, part of a standard coding
system created and maintained by the National Motor Freight Association to identify every carrier in North America,
is a unique 4-letter identifier commonly used in EDI transmissions.

Schedule
For Batch Balancer use. Information transferred via integration from a warehouse management system that
includes Schedule doors, Number of batches, Number of doors, Start time, Starting Batch Number, and Order
bases.

SCR
Airlines operating flights through a coordinated airport must provide details of their proposed schedules to the
coordinator, using a Slot Clearance Request\\Reply (SCR). It is a standard message used by airlines and
coordinators, for the clearance of flights at coordinated airports.

Screen Set
is an attribute configuration for the Search and Results page for a business object.

Seal Number
The Seal Number uniquely identifies each sealed unit. This number is ordinarily imprinted on the seal itself.

Seal Sequence
The Seal Sequence specifies the number and sequence of the sealed units.

Sell Shipment
Presents a shipment from the order owner's perspective, which may not represent the physical movement of
freight. Only orders from a single order owner can appear together in a sell-side shipment. Sell-side shipments
provide a way for order owners to view information about their orders.

Semi-Fixed Batch
Product that is Semi-Fixed Batched, like Fixed Batched product, must be assigned to the batch that coincides with
the Relative Batch Number defined for the distribution center (DC) and Store on the order. Semi-Fixed product for a
store must always be in the assigned relative batch, but unlike Fixed, Semi-Fixed may be processed at more than
one door in the batch, so greater than truckload freight should be loaded at multiple doors in the batch..
Sequence Code
Designate the order in which events should occur on this rail route. Choices for this field are: I - Service Provider
used for the switch at the originating location; S - Service Provider used at the origin point; R - Rule 11.

Service Days
For use with Rate Service Type of Day Duration only. The number of days for delivery. This field is used in
conjunction with the Calendar field to determine time of delivery.

Service Time
A rate zone service time is used to determine the time required to transport goods within a specified area.

servprov
See Service Provider

Severity
Use this parameter to rate the severity of a particular event. The following are valid values: 1 - Indicates an event
that stops shipment progress. When you enter 1, the event stops shipment progress and the planner must take
action before the shipment can resume; 4 - Indicates an informational event. A message displays that defines the
event but no action is required for the shipment to continue; 5 - Indicates a filtered event. A filtered event gets
recorded in the GIIV status event history but does not stop shipment activity. This parameter providers a rating of
the event, and not the impact that the event may have when other factors are taken into account for the shipment.
For example you may define an informational event called Arrived (set at severity 4) but if the arrival is two days
later than scheduled, the event becomes much more important.

Severity (Log File)

Defines the type and level of information recorded in a log file. For example, the Error severity restricts logs to error
messages.

Ship Unit
A ship unit defines how the material will be shipped; for example, on a pallet.

Ship Unit Reference

The reference number is a value that identifies the shipment. Each ship unit reference number is associated with a
ship unit reference number qualifier.

Shipment
A shipment is a transportable set of goods taken by a service provider from one point to another. A shipment
contains one or more order releases.

Shipment as Work
A shipment created manually in the shipment manager. These shipments do not contain orders. OTM performs
some automated actions based on criteria defined in the Agent Manager.

Shipment Events
Activity on the shipment that occurs during transport. Shipment events are reported by third parties, such as the
service provider. Only shipment events that relate to the order display.

Shipment Graph
A shipment graph is a set of shipments which are related by the orders which are on those shipments.

Shipment Group
A set of shipments that are carried together for a particular leg of a journey. For example, shipments at that dock
that are placed together in a single vessel can be represented as a shipment group.

Shipment Group Rules

OTM uses these rules during planning to determine when shipment groups are created.

Shipment Plan
OTM selects the attributes of a shipment required for transportation based on order information, and makes
decisions about the optimal organization of shipment transportation by seeking to arrange orders onto shipments to
produce the least expensive alternatives for moving freight.
Shipment Released
Indicate that a rail shipment is ready to move goods.

Shipping Role
The role for the source location for the shipment. There are 4 roles available: Carrier, Port, Airport and Ship
From/Ship To. If a location is a Port or an Airport, the location is available through the Ask OTM Port Finder and
Airport Finder.

Simple Order
A simple order provides a quick way to enter an order without providing all the details of a order base. The data
that you can enter on a simple order is a subset of the data that you can enter for a order base. For example, you
can only enter one source and destination location on a simple order as opposed to an order base which can
accommodate as many source/destination locations as you need.

Single Stop Shipment

A single stop shipment is a shipment with only one pickup and delivery location.

SITC
A standard numerical code system developed by the United Nations to classify commodities used in international
trade.

SKU
Stock Keeping Unit

SmartLink
SmartLinks are navigation aides that work against a specific business object. These links appear on the Results
page for business objects (excluding Power Data).

SMC
An external rating engine, also known as Rateware, that can be used to read rates not already defined in OTM.

Source Geo Hierarchy

The source location for an itinerary.

Source Location
The name of the location where the order release begins. A location represents a physical place. A location can
include such places as airports, ports, rail ramps/yards, container pool locations, distributors, assembly points,
plants, vendors, and more.

Special Service
Special services are customer requirements that must be met before a shipment can be qualified. For example, a
particular shipment may require delivery to a construction site.

Speed
Used in conjunction with Distance. The average speed for transporting from one point to another. This value is
used to estimate how long it takes to transport goods. That estimate is then used to determine if the rate can be
used based on pickup and delivery dates required.

SPLC
The Standard Point Location Code (SPLC) is designed to provide each point originating freight and each point
receiving freight in North America with a unique code number. SPLC is owned, maintained and copyrighted by the
National Motor Freight Traffic Association.

Spot Bid Tender

Also referred to as Tender Auctioning, a process where by Service Providers are allowed to specify cost and desire
to handle a shipment.  At some point in the process, a winner is picked.

Status Type
A Status Type represents a class of actions or states that can occur during the logistics workflow. Each Status
Type pertains to a type of record (for example, orders, shipments, invoices, bills of lading) and is associated with
certain Status Values, which represent specific actions or states for those records. For example, BOL_ACTUALS
and BILL_APPROVAL are Status Types.
Status Value
A Status Value represents a specific action or state that can occur during the logistics workflow. Each Status Value
is associated with a Status Type, which defines a class of actions or states related to a type of record (for example,
orders, shipments, invoices, bills of lading). For example, PAYMENT_APPROVED and APPOINTMENTS_NONE
are Status Values.

Stop
A location at which goods are loaded, unloaded, detained, or stored during a shipment.

Stowage Mode
This represents a compartment within the vessel on a charter voyage that has specific capacity.  A ocean carrier
specifies the available capacities on the vessel by stowage mode. The shippers provide their stowage mode
preferences for their transport orders.

Supplemental Bill
A supplemental bill is a customer bill created from and related to a previously issued bill. Typically, supplemental
bills are created to bill for adjustments and additional charges.

Table Set
A list of data tables that have been grouped for access purposes.

Tare Weight
The weight of a container and/or packing materials without the weight of the goods it contains.

Tariff
A schedule of prices or fees for a service provider, and duties or a duty imposed by a government on imported or
exported goods.

Tender
A tender is a formal offer to contract goods and services at a specified cost. You define Tenders in OTM Web
Tendering.

Tender Response
The service providers response to a tender offer from OTM. The service provider either accepts or rejects the
tender offer.

TEU
Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit

TL (Truckload)
A full trailer of freight.

TOFC
An abbreviation for Trailer on a Flat Car, describing a mode of rail shipment.

Ton Mile
Order weight multiplied by distance travelled. This statistic is used by certain allocation metrics.

Trailer
A freight vehicle with a permanently attached undercarriage and wheels used for truck and rail shipments.

Transit Time
The amount of time a shipment is in transit.

Transportation Mode
A transportation mode determines how the shipment gets transported. For example, a shipment may travel by truck
load, rail, air, or sea.

Unloaded Distance
Defines the distance over which the equipment for the shipment travels without a cargo.
Unplanned Milestone
Manages events not handled by Planned Milestones. See Planning Milestones.

UOM
Defines the unit of measures types and their associated codes. Example : weight, lbs.

UOM Map
Defines factors for converting between two unit of measures of the same type.

URL
Universal Resource Locators (URLs) provide the addresses of Web pages or other resources on the Internet.
URLs can take a number of forms, but typically they consist of a protocol (e.g., http://), a domain name (e.g.,
www.oracle.com), and a pathname (/glog_home/). URLs can be used to receive and send messages via
HTTPPOST protocols.

User-Defined Commodity
Defines a subcategory of a particular commodity. Example: for the commodity food, add a user-defined commodity
of Kosher.

User Menu
A configuration of groups, labels, and links that appear in the navigation frame on the left of the screen.

Vehicle Type
Vehicle Types are used to assign additional dimensional attributes to equipment groups. Commonly associated
with air modes of transport, vehicle types contain door height and width dimensions that must be added to the
equipment group so that ship units assigned to that equipment group can fit through the door when they are loaded
onto the plane.

Volume
The measured storage capacity that the shipping unit or equipment can accommodate (e.g., 400 cubic feet).

VPD
A Virtual Private Database (VPD) is an Oracle feature that provides fine-tuned access control, even to the level of
table rows. VPDs can apply across or within domains, creating in effect specialized user groups with precisely
limited access privileges.

VPD Context
A set of context variables with defined values, used in creating external predicates that can be applied to groups of
users.

VPD Profile
Specifies which virtual private database (VPD) applies to a sub-domain or to an individual user. VPDs provide fine-
tuned access to specific database content across or within domains. A set of instructions that limit a user�s
access to specified sections of the OTM database, within or across domains. VPD Profiles typically contain table
names, VPD rules, and other specifications.

Web Tender
Web tendering is a method service providers can use for accepting and declining tender offers sent to them from
planners who are using OTM.

X Lane
Represents a source and destination. It is never more than two points. The locations used can be specific, such as
a street address, or more general, such as a city, state country, or region. You can associate an X Lane with a
particular rate to facilitate shipment planning.

Zone
Zones are used by parcel carriers when defining itineraries and rates.  For example, Service Provider can offer one
rate for transport from a location to any of the southwestern states (zone 1) and another rate for transport to the
northeastern states (zone 3). You can define up to 4 zones. For OTM to use zone information, the same Zone must
be assigned in a Rate Record. If OTM finds a match between a source or destination location and a rate lane (and
other factors, such as service provider and mode, also match), the rate may qualify for the shipment.