GLOSSARY

Avila Zavaleta Edgar Apolinar

9°B
English VII
 1.-Assembly line
A system made up of a line of workers and
machines in a factory, different materials pass
through here to create a finished product.

NOUN
 2.-Automation
Is to make a process in a company run on
computers, in order to reduce the amount of
work done by humans.

NOUM
 3.-Bottleneck
This effect generally occurs in production
processes where the flow of the assembly
line slows down, causing congestion.

NOUN
 4.- Cargo
Large-sized goods, transported by any mode of
transport, are containerized for ease of
handling.

NOUN
 5.- Caution
When handling goods, it is important to signal,
through symbols or words, that the goods must
be handled with the utmost care to avoid
accidents.

NOUN
 6.- Charter
A formal statement of the rights of an
organization or a specific social group, which is
agreed upon by a government, stipulating the
shares held, who the members are and the role
of the shareholders.

NOUN
 7.-Contract
A legal agreement between people and
organizations, in this we can find, salary,
duration and activities included in this
agreement.

NOUN
 8.-Control

It consists of carrying out established activities

in order to have an adequate management in
the company to comply with the required
standards.

VERB
 9.- Cost Fulfillment
These represent the sum of expenses involved
in the course of handling goods, from receipt to
distribution, such as receiving, storage,
packaging, shipping and reverse logistics.

NOUN
 10.- Critical
In logistics, there are three types of needs,
critical is when there is a significant shortage of
complements in the production line to produce a
batch required by the customer.

ADJECTIVE
 11.- Deadline

The final point in time that the goods are

delivered at the agreed location, date and time

NOUN
 12.- Defective

Condition that usually when goods are not

handled in the correct way, they suffer dents
that affect their proper functioning.

ADJECTIVE
 13.- Delivery Fulfillment
This is described as the time elapsed from the
time the goods leave the company until they
reach our customer, this is how the delivery is
fulfilled.

NOUN
 14.- Damage
Refers to the improper handling or transport of
goods, which are damaged in such a way as to
prevent their use or correct operation.

VERB
 15.- Emergency
A hazardous situation, such as an accident, that
occurs suddenly or unexpectedly in any part of
our supply chain and requires immediate action,
such as spills, claims or explosions.

NOUN
 16.- Expedite

To cause something to be done more quickly,

for example delivery of perishable goods or
goods needing refrigeration.

VERB
 17.-Export
Is the activity carried out by a country or
company that produces goods and sends them
to other countries.

NOUN
 18.- Flexibility
The main characteristic of logistics is to be
flexible, since there are different means of
transportation such as cargo planes, trains,
ships and trailers.

NOUN
 19.- Handling

It is the way in which we are going to handle the

goods, since not all of them must be
transported in the same way because they may
require delicate handling.

VERB
 20.-Import
when a country has no goods or products within
its territory, it requests others to send it the
goods it does not have.

VERB
 21.- Load

Filling of goods on a vehicle or machine to send

the shipment to its final destination

VERB
 22.-Machine

Company equipment that facilitates heavy

processes, saving human resources and
making it faster and more efficient.

NOUN
 23.-Material flow

Within an assembly line the flow of materials must be

taken care of, this includes from the supply until the
product is finished, if the flow is too slow the production
objective will not be achieved and if it is accelerated it
will cause congestion in a part of the process.

NOUN
 24.-Movement

The movement of materials to be used to

produce a product takes place in a warehouse.

NOUN
 25.-Negotiate

Usually the purchasing manager has to

negotiate with suppliers to obtain a low cost of
materials in order to close the contract.

VERB
 26.- Order Fulfillment
For a company order fulfillment is a process from
the time the sale occurs until it is delivered to the
customer, successful order fulfillment is achieved by
completing the steps of receiving, processing,
packing, picking and shipping the order.

NOUN
 27.- Overnight
Commonly, companies that are in charge of
transporting goods usually have activity at night,
loading and unloading trucks, in order to move
to their delivery point at night.

ADJECTIVE
 28.- Pack

A small box or paper container in which we can

have a better handling of the goods to be
delivered to the customer.

NOUN
 29.- Pick up

After the customer receives the products at

home, he verifies if they are the products he
ordered and if they are in good condition,
otherwise he will have to schedule a return pick-
up.

VERB
 30.-Point of use

Is just the place where an attachment is placed

on the product being manufactured.

NOUN
 31.- Point to Point

In logistics we usually use this term to refer to

the route, the point of departure to the point of
delivery of our goods.

NOUN
 32.-Process

Is a series of actions through which you must

go through to achieve a finished product in
terms of a production process.

NOUN
 33.-Procurement

It is a process in which companies purchase

inputs to be able to carry out all their processes.

NOUN
 34.-Purchase
Buy of materials, accessories or equipment
necessary for the company to carry out its
activities.

VERB
 35.- Quality Fulfillment

In the logistics field, there are quality standards

that products must meet in order to be exported
and imported.

NOUN
 36.- Quality
Within the production area there must be a
quality process, quality materials to have
products with the highest levels in order to
comply with the regulations, making them more
durable.

NOUN
 37.- Rapid Response

Is the ability of a company to react to

emergency situations such as disasters,
explosions or problem solving with customers

ADJECTIVE
 38.- Reliability

Customers commonly choose to buy from

companies because of the high reliability they
have with their current buyers and they are
highly recommended by them.

NOUN
 39.- Recall

It is the exact moment when a company picks

up the products required by the customer to
send them to the place requested.

VERB
 40.- Recapture

At the time of generating an order, sales

employees must enter the information again to
confirm and avoid problems when dispatching
goods in the warehouse.

VERB
 41.- Refurbish

When products suffer some damage during

transportation or handling it must be refurbished
so that it reaches the customer in the best
conditions.

VERB
 42.-Regulation

Set of rules that allow the control of activities,

such as the regulation of export and import
goods

NOUN
 43.- Repair

When a product attachment fails, it must be

returned to the company so that it can be
repaired, usually through reverse logistics.

VERB
 44.-Request for proposal
It is a call for tenders launched by the company
for suppliers and it will allow us to select the
supplier that meets th requirements.

NOUN
 45.- Required

Dispatchers must check that customers are

sent only what is required by the purchase
order.

VERB
 46.- Return

The companies that sell the products offer the

customer a period of time in which they can
return the products if they are not what they
ordered or if they are defective.

VERB
 47.- Same Day

The transportation company offers same day

delivery service, this only applies to local
deliveries.

ADJECTIVE
 48.-Scrap
A warehouse must have an adequate rotation of
materials or products so that they do not
become waste or scrap.

NOUN
 49.- Sell off

A sales strategy which consists of reducing the

selling price so that it can be sold more quickly,
companies use it to avoid having product on
backorder.

NOUN
 50.-Service provider

Is the company that provides us with services

such as electricity, water, internet, etc.

NOUN
 51.-Sort
All the goods to be exported or imported are
sorted to facilitate the calculation of the taxes
to be paid to the tax authorities.

VERB
 52.-Speed up

The implementation of machinery within a

company makes its production times are
accelerated, thus saving time and labor.

VERB
 53.-Strategic

Is a series of actions, which will help us to

achieve a projected plan

ADJECTIVE
 54.-Streamline

It is the set of actions of people, machines,

streamlined processes through which a product
passes for its improvement and finishing.

VERB
 55.-Tactical

consists of different systems or methods for

executing or achieving a given objective.

ADJECTIVE
 56.- Tag
It is of vital importance to label the products,
since they allow us to locate them more easily,
some data that must contain are date of
elaboration, lot, date of production, bar code
among others.

VERB
 57.- Technology

Consists of the use and employment of

scientific advances such as the internet,
machinery and computers.

NOUN
 58.- Timing
Within a company there must be a planning of
the time of receipt of materials, production time,
shipping time, delivery time, which allow us to
know the efficiency of the planning.

NOUN
 59.- Track

The implementation of GPS in the trucks allows

us to know the exact trajectory of the units so
that we can monitor up to the end point of the
route.

VERB
 60.-Track and trace

Within a warehouse there is a process that consists of

locating a product in a rack and leaving it there to
identify the specific area where it is located by means of
a label with information that is stored in a database and
thus helps to locate it promptly.

VERB
 61.- Triage

Is the classification with which a need must be

met, or the priority in which an order must be
delivered, immediately, urgently or normally.

NOUN
 62.- Urgent

The requirement for a product may be classified

as urgent, and it must be delivered as soon as
possible to the customer to satisfy that need.

ADJECTIVE
 63.- Warranty
most companies that offer products or services
offer a warranty on their products so that if
customers are not satisfied with the product or
service, they can make use of it and have more
confidence in the company.

NOUN
 64.-Work station
Area or place assigned for employees to carry out
their activities within the company.

NOUN