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A repository of 3PL acronyms, jargon, terms, and useful concepts for brands striving to optimize their ecommerce logistics operations.

3PL Terms

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    • 0-9

  • 2D barcode

  • 3D barcode

  • 3PL

  • 80-20 Rule

  • 3PL Worldwide

  • 4PL Aggregator

  • 5S in Warehousing

  • 3PL Central

    • A

  • A/B Testing

  • ABC Analysis

  • Accounts Payable (A/P)

  • Accounts Receivable (A/R)

  • Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN)

  • Ad Clicks

  • Affiliate Marketing

  • After-Sale Service

  • Air Waybill (AWB)

  • Alibaba

  • Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)

  • Amazon's Best Sellers Ranking (BSR)

  • Any-Quantity Rates

  • Application Programming Interface (API)

  • Arbitrage

  • Audit Trail

  • Automatic Targeted Ads

  • Available-to-Promise (ATP)

  • Active Stock

  • Apparel Fulfillment

  • Arrival Notice

  • ArcBest

  • All Points Logistics

  • AMS Fulfillment

  • Airhouse Fulfillment

  • Atomix Logistics

  • a2b Fulfillment

  • A-Storage Group Inc.

  • Aarya Logistics

  • Averitt Express

  • Americold

  • Arrive Logistics

  • AIT Worldwide Logistics

  • APL Logistics

  • Allpoints

  • Allen Lund Company

  • Armstrong Transport Group

  • Atlanta Bonded Warehouse

  • Ascent Global Logistics

  • Accessorial Charges

  • Air Cargo

  • Air Freight

  • Amazon SFP (Seller Fulfilled Prime)

  • Ambient Storage

  • Automated Dimensioning

  • Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)

  • Automated Order Routing

  • Automated Palletizers

  • Automated Picking Solutions

  • Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS)

  • AFS Logistics

  • Agility

  • Allocation

  • Automated Invoicing

  • All-Cargo Aircraft

    • B

  • Back Order

  • Base Currency

  • Basing-Point Pricing

  • Batch Terminal Communications

  • Benefit-Cost Ratio

  • Bill of Lading (BOL)

  • Blind Receiving

  • Bonded Warehouse

  • Buffer Stock

  • Bullwhip Effect

  • Business Performance Measurement (BPM)

  • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

  • Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

  • Business-to-Business (B2B)

  • Business-to-Consumer (B2C)

  • Business-to-Retailer (B2R)

  • Batch Fulfillment

  • Beauty & Cosmetics Fulfillment

  • Bundling

  • Bluegrass Supply Chain

  • BroadRange Logistics

  • Beyond Warehousing

  • Boxx Technologies

  • Black Rabbit 3PL

  • Burris Logistics

  • Barrett Distribution Centers

  • BlueGrace Logistics

  • BNSF Logistics

  • B2B Logistics

  • B2C Logistics

  • Backhaul

  • Balanced Inventory Approach

  • Barcoding

  • Batch Picking

  • Big And Bulky

  • Bulu

  • Bonded Logistics

  • Boa Logistics

  • BoxFort

  • Blockchain In Logistics

  • Bogie

    • C

  • Cash Conversion Cycle

  • Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time

  • Centralized Inventory Control

  • Change Order

  • Changeover

  • Channel Conflict

  • Chargeable Weight

  • Click-Through-Rate (CTR)

  • Co-Packer

  • Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR)

  • Commercial Zone

  • Commodity Code (HS Code)

  • Competitive Benchmarking

  • Competitive Bid

  • Cost-Per-Click (CPC)

  • Cost-Per-Mille (CPM)

  • Critical Success Factors (CSF)

  • Cross Docking

  • Crowdfunding

  • Cubage

  • Cube Out

  • Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF)

  • Current-Demand Inventory

  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

  • Cargo

  • Carrier Liability

  • Carrier Limitations

  • Case Picking

  • Channel

  • Clearing and Forwarding Agent (CFA)

  • Code 128

  • Commercial Invoice

  • Consignee

  • Consolidation

  • Containerization

  • Courier Service

  • Custom Packaging

  • Customs

  • Customs Value

  • Cycle Count

  • Cycle Time

  • Coyote Logistics

  • Capacity LLC Fulfillment

  • CDS Logistics

  • Cold Chain 3PL

  • Cubbo

  • Coasters

  • Ceva Logistics

  • Crane Worldwide Logistics

  • Cardinal Logistics

  • C.H. Robinson

  • CJ Logistics America

  • Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation

  • CDEC Inc.

  • Chain of Custody

  • Chargeback Fees

  • Circular Supply Chain

  • Click-and-Collect

  • COD Shipping (Cash on Delivery)

  • Cold Storage

  • Commercial Shipping

  • Consolidated Shipping

  • Consolidator

  • Container Demurrage

  • Crowley Logistics

  • Cart.com

  • Choptank Transport

  • CT Logistics

  • Container Detention

  • Container Freight Station (CFS)

  • Canada Cartage

  • CLX Logistics

  • Carter Logistics

  • Container Sealing

  • Cooperative Routing

  • Cost-to-Serve Analysis

  • Cross-border eCommerce

  • Crowdsourced Delivery

  • CTPAT Compliance

  • Curbside Pickup

  • Customs Bonding

  • Carbon Footprint Management

  • Carbon Offset Shipping

  • Cargo Insurance

  • Carrier Assignment

  • Carrier Performance Analysis

  • Cartonization

  • Central Distribution Center

  • Centralized Returns

  • Core Logistics

  • Consolidation Center

  • Container Service Charges (CSC)

  • Cargo Load Factor (CLF)

  • Consignment Warehouse

  • Cargo Retention Clauses

  • Compliance

  • Cross Border Logistics

  • Customs Declaration

    • D

  • DUNS Number

  • Data Mining

  • Data Synchronization

  • Dead Stock

  • Deadweight Tonnage (DWT)

  • Delivered Duty Paid (DDP)

  • Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU)

  • Dock Receipt

  • Dropshipping

  • Duty-Free Zone (DFZ)

  • Duty Tax

  • Demand-Chain Management

  • Demand Forecasting

  • Demand Planning

  • Demurrage

  • Detention

  • DIM Factor

  • Dimensional Weight/DIM Weight

  • Distribution Center (DC)

  • Distribution Channel

  • Distributor

  • Dock-to-Dock

  • Dunnage

  • DCL Logistics

  • DB Schenker

  • DHL eCommerce

  • DHL Supply Chain

  • Dialog Direct

  • Deliverr

  • Day & Ross

  • Distribution Alternatives

  • Distribution Technology

  • Davinci Micro Fulfillment

  • Demand

  • Digital Logistics

  • Dispatch

  • Delivered at Frontier (DAF)

  • Disposition

  • Diesel Surcharge

  • Dedicated Logistics

    • E

  • Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)

  • Economic Value Added (EVA)

  • Economy of Scale

  • Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)

  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

  • Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)

  • Emergency Stock

  • Electronic Product Code (EPC)

  • Employer Identification Number (EIN)

  • End Item

  • End-of-Life Inventory

  • Engineer-to-Order

  • Enhanced Brand Content (EBC)

  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System

  • Evaluated Receipts Settlement (ERS)

  • Extensible Markup Language (XML)

  • External Factory

  • eCommerce Fulfillment

  • Education Fulfillment

  • Electronics Fulfillment

  • Expedited Shipping

  • Export

  • Export Broker

  • Elite OPS

  • eShipper

  • eCom Logistics

  • e53 Fulfillment

  • Expeditors International

  • Echo Global Logistics

  • E2open

  • EWI

  • Easyship

  • EASE Logistics

  • ET Transport

  • Eshipping Distribution Services

  • Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)

    • F

  • Finished Goods Inventory (FG or FGI)

  • First-In, First-Out (FIFO)

  • Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ)

  • Forwarding

  • Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL)

  • Free Alongside Ship (FAS)

  • Free on Board (FOB)

  • Freight

  • Freight Forwarder

  • Fronthaul

  • Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA)

  • Fulfillment Center (FC)

  • Fulfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit (FNSKU)

  • Fulfillment Service

  • Fulfillment by Merchant (FBM)

  • Full-Service Leasing

  • Functional Acknowledgement (FA)

  • Functional Group

  • Fashion Accessories Fulfillment

  • FEFO (First Expired, First Out)

  • Fill Rate

  • Footwear Fulfillment

  • Forward Logistics

  • Freight Shipment

  • Full Truckload (FTL)

  • Fulfyld

  • Fast and Forward Prep Center

  • FMi Logistics

  • Flexport

  • Fowler’s

  • FedEx Supply Chain

  • Flexe

  • Flowspace

  • Floship

  • FlashBox

  • Freeport Logistics Inc.

  • Forte Frozen

  • Fleet

  • Fixed Date

  • Free on Truck (FOT)

  • Finished Goods

  • Fragile Goods

  • Four-Wall Inventory

  • Fleet Management

  • Financial Loss

  • The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

  • Flatbed Truck

  • Freight Handling Logistics

  • Freight and Cargo Exchange

  • Fulfillment Network

  • FIOT (Free In/Out and Trimmed)

  • Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

    • G

  • Global Trade Item Number (GTIN)

  • Gated Category

  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

  • Government Bill of Lading (GB/L)

  • Grandfather Clause

  • Gross Margin

  • Gross Profit

  • Gross Weight

  • GLT Logistics

  • Guardian Logistics Solutions

  • Geodis

  • GlobalTranz

  • GoBolt

  • Gulf Relay

  • Givens

  • GS1-128 Barcode

  • Global Logistics

  • Goods Issue

    • H

  • Haulage

  • Headline Search Ad

  • Hedge Inventory

  • Holding Cost

  • House Air Waybill (HAWB)

  • Hub Airport

  • Hundredweight (CWT)

  • Handling Cost

  • Household Good Fulfillment

  • HomeRoots Fulfillment

  • HJI Supply Chain Solutions

  • Hub Group

  • Harte Hanks

  • Haulistic LLC

  • HIFO (Highest In - First Out)

  • Handling

  • Healthcare Logistics

  • Hazardous Materials Logistics

  • HS Code

  • Humanitarian Logistics

    • I

  • INCOTERMS

  • Import

  • In-Bond Shipment

  • In-Transit Inventory

  • Inbound Logistics

  • Incentive Rate

  • Inland Bill of Lading

  • Intermodal Transportation

  • International Standards Organization (ISO)

  • Interstate Commerce

  • Intrastate Commerce

  • Inventory Management System (IMS)

  • Invoice

  • Issuing Carrier

  • Inventory

  • Inventory Forecasting

  • Inventory Management

  • Inventory Planning

  • Inventory Turnover Ratio

  • Iron Mountain Warehousing and Logistics

  • i Logistics USA

  • IDS Fulfillment

  • In-House Warehousing Services

  • Importer

  • Inventory Consolidation

  • International Shipping Logistics

  • International Freight Logistics

  • Inventory Security

    • J

  • Joint Cost

  • Joint Rate

  • Just-in-Time Logistics

  • Jack Cooper

  • JD Logistics

  • JD Smith

  • Jarrett Logistics Systems

    • K

  • Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

  • Kitting

  • Kenco Group

  • Kayo3PL

  • Kuehne + Nagel

  • Kane Logistics

  • Kendrew

  • Kerry Logistics

    • L

  • LASH Vessel

  • LTL Shipment

  • Lading

  • Landed Cost

  • Landing Page

  • Last In First Out (LIFO)

  • Lead Logistics Provider (LLP)

  • Less-Than-Carload (LCL)

  • Less-Than-Container Load (LCL)

  • Less-Than-Truckload (LTL)

  • Lessee

  • Lessor

  • Letter of Credit (LOC)

  • Limited Liability Company (LLC)

  • Liquidation

  • Local Area Network (LAN)

  • Logistics

  • Logistics Data Interchange (LDI)

  • Long Ton

  • Lost Sales

  • Lot-for-Lot

  • Last Mile Delivery

  • Lead Time

  • Legacy Supply Chain Fulfillment

  • Launch Fulfillment

  • Lineage Logistics

  • Logistics Plus

  • Logistics Management

  • Last Mile Logistics

  • Logistics Solutions

  • Logistics Planning

  • Logistics Service Provider

  • Liftgate

  • Logistics Tracking Software

    • M

  • Machine Downtimes

  • Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Supplies (MRO)

  • Make-or-Buy Decision

  • Make-to-Order

  • Make-to-Stock

  • Management Information System (MIS)

  • Manually Targeted Ads

  • Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

  • Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP-II)

  • Marginal Cost

  • Market-Positioned Warehouse

  • Marketing Funnel

  • Master Air Waybill (MAWB)

  • Merge-In-Transit

  • Micro-Land Bridge

  • Manifest

  • Master Carton

  • Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF)

  • Mainfreight Fulfillment

  • Mobix Logistics

  • MD Logistics

  • Mountainy

  • Mallory Alexander International Logistics

  • Mesa Moving & Storage

  • Modular Assembly

  • Multi-Client Warehouse

  • Market Positioned Warehouse

  • Means of Transportation

  • Modal Split

  • Mobility

    • N

  • National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC)

  • Negotiable BOL

  • Net Profit (AKA Profit Margin)

  • New Product Introduction (NPI)

  • Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)

  • Non-Negotiable BOL

  • Non-Stock Inventory

  • Notify Party

  • Net Weight

  • Node

  • Nimble Robotics Fulfillment

  • Novo Logistics

  • Nitro Logistics

  • NFI Industries

  • Noble House

  • Newl

    • O

  • OFX

  • Obsolete Inventory

  • Ocean Bill of Lading

  • Offshoring

  • Online Arbitrage (OA)

  • Operating Ratio

  • Opting In

  • Order Management

  • Order Picking

  • Order Processing

  • Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)

  • Outbound Logistics

  • Outlier

  • Outpartnering

  • Outsourcing

  • Over, Short, and Damaged (OS&D)

  • Over-the-Road

  • Overhead

  • Omni-Channel

  • Order Fulfillment

  • Order Tracking

  • Outsource Logistics

  • One World Direct

  • Ottawa Logistics Fulfillment

  • Outerspace

  • ODW Logistics

  • Ohio Logistics

  • Order Batch

  • On Site Logistics Services

    • P

  • POS

  • Parcel Manifest System

  • Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC)

  • Pay-on-Use

  • Peer-to-Peer (P2P)

  • Pegging

  • Perpetual Inventory

  • Picking by Aisle

  • Picking by Source

  • Portable Data Collection Terminal (PDT)

  • Prepaid Freight

  • Pro Forma Invoice

  • Profitability Analysis

  • Proof of Delivery (POD)

  • Purchase Order (PO)

  • Packing

  • Packing List

  • Pallet

  • Palletized Shipping

  • Pick and Pack

  • Physical Inventory Count

  • Port of Discharge

  • Port of Entry

  • Publishing Fulfillment

  • Putaway

  • Portless

  • Proven Prep

  • Penske Logistics

  • Pilot Freight Services

  • PLS Logistics

  • Piled

  • PPFD

  • Port Logistics Group

  • Perimeter Global Logistics

  • Pro-Source

  • Patterson Logistics

  • POS (Point of Sale)

  • Production Logistics

  • PCTC

  • Port

  • Permanent Pallet

  • Port of Unloading

  • Production

  • Public Private Partnership (PPP)

  • Pallet Wrapping Machine

    • Q

  • Quality Assurance/ QA

  • Quality Control

  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

  • Quiet Platforms Logistics

  • QuickBox Fulfillment

  • QX Logistix

  • Quick Response

    • R

  • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

  • Random-Location Storage

  • Release-to-Start Manufacturing

  • Retail Arbitrage (RO)

  • Return On Investment (ROI)

  • Return-to-Vendor (RTV)

  • Reverse Engineering

  • Reverse Logistics

  • Rewarehousing

  • Receiving

  • Re-Order Point

  • Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA)

  • Red Stag

  • Ryder

  • Renewal Logistics

  • Radial

  • Redwood Logistics

  • Ruan Transportation Management Systems

  • Radiant Logistics

  • Rush Order

  • R2 Logistics

  • Real Solutions

  • Resilience

  • Recovery

  • Rate

  • River Information Services

  • RMA Number

  • Readiness to Deliver

    • S

  • SFP (Seller Fulfilled Prime)

  • SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code)

  • SWOT Analysis

  • Safety Lead Time

  • Safety Stock

  • Salable Goods

  • Sawtooth Diagram

  • Scanlon Plan

  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  • Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)

  • Slotting

  • Split Delivery

  • Sponsored Ad

  • Spot Demand

  • Squeeze Page

  • Statement of Work (SOW)

  • Statistical Process Control (SPC)

  • Stock-Keeping Unit (SKU)

  • Stocktaking

  • Sub-Optimization

  • Subhauler

  • Subcontracting

  • Sunk Cost

  • Supply Chain Management (SCM)

  • Seasonality

  • Self-Fulfillment

  • Serial Number

  • Shipping

  • Shipping Zones

  • Shopping Cart Integration

  • Shrinkage

  • Stockout (out of stock)

  • Storage Fees

  • Supplement & Vitamins Fulfillment

  • Supply Chain

  • ShipBob

  • ShipMonk​

  • ShipHype

  • SEKO Logistics

  • Smart Warehousing Fulfillment

  • ShipStation

  • ShipNetwork

  • Shipfusion Fulfillment

  • Selery Fulfillment

  • ShipCalm

  • ShipLab

  • Snapl

  • Sunland Logistics Solutions

  • Shippable

  • ShipBots

  • Shtiks Inc.

  • Shippo

  • Schneider National

  • STG Logistics

  • Saddle Creek Logistics Services

  • ShipHero

  • Source Logistics

  • Scan Global Logistics

  • Stord

  • Sunset Transportation

  • Simpl Fulfillment

  • Schneider Logistics

  • Superior Logistics

  • Storage Station

  • Shipwire

  • Same-Day Logistics

  • Security

  • Scenario Planning

  • Supplier Diversity

  • Spot Market

  • Supply Chain Forecasting

  • Standardization

  • Supplier Kanban

  • Surety Bond

  • Supplier Collaboration

  • Scorecard

  • Storage Types

    • T

  • Taguchi Method

  • Takt Time

  • Tare Weight

  • Tariff

  • Theory of Constraints (TOC)

  • Third-Party Warehousing

  • Throughput

  • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

  • Touch Labor

  • Truck Stop Electrification (TSE)

  • Truckload Carriers

  • Tariff Code

  • Tondo Fulfillment

  • Traffic Tech Logistics

  • Team Logistics Co., LLC

  • TForce Logistics

  • The Storage Place

  • Traffix

  • Taylored Services

  • TForce Final Mile

  • Total Quality Logistics (TQL)

  • Temperature Control

  • Truck

  • Tendering

  • Turnover

    • U

  • UNECE

  • Universal Product Code (UPC)

  • Unbundled Payment/Remittance

  • Umbrella Rate

  • Unique Parcel Identifier (UPI)

  • Unverified Reviews

  • Upsell

  • Upside Production Flexibility

  • Upselling

  • United Cold Storage

  • UPS Supply Chain Solutions

  • Universal Logistics

  • UniGroup

  • Urgent Transport

    • V

  • Value Adding/Non-Value Adding

  • Value-Added Network (VAN)

  • Value of Service Pricing

  • Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI)

  • Verified Reviews

  • Virtual Assistant (VA)

  • Volumetric Weight

  • Verde Fulfillment USA

  • Venture Logistics

  • Value Added Services

  • Value Chain

    • W

  • Warehouse Management System (WMS)

  • Warehousing

  • Waterway Use Tax

  • Waybill

  • Weight-Losing Raw Material

  • Wharfage

  • White Label

  • Wide-Area Network (WAN)

  • Work in Process

  • Warehouse

  • Ware2Go Fulfillment

  • We Ship Express

  • Wilson Warehouse

  • Werner Enterprises

  • Whitebox

  • Whiplash Fulfillment

  • Warehouse Control System

  • Waste Management Logistics

  • WTO

    • X

  • XPO Logistics

    • Y

  • Yield

  • Yield Rate

  • Yaca Logistics

  • Yusen Logistics

    • Z

  • Zero Inventory

  • Zone Picking

  • Zone Price

  • Zone of Rate Freedom

  • Zone of Reasonableness

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