Transporting Goods Flashcards
Expédier des marchandises
To dispatch / ship / consign / forward goods
Expédition
A shipment / consignment
Expéditeur
A consigner / consignor / dispatcher / sender / shipper / forwarder
Destinataire
A sendee / recipient
Shipping documents
Certificates, warrants, receipts, Incoterm
Means of transport
Air freight, shipping/sea transport, river transport, rail transport, road transport (trucking)
Logistics
Putting products at clients’ disposal/ delivery end products
A supply chain
A system of organizations, people, technologies, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
Part of the SCManagement
Objective of SCM
To optimize the flow of goods, information and other resources through a network of transport links and storages nodes, between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of customers
