Standard Terminology Relating to Supply Chain Stakeholders

Importancia y uso:

3.1 In this terminology, terms and definitions are described that help answer the “who” question that is asked throughout most, if not all, supply chain and goods movement process activities. People involved in those activities will use an abundance of terms and definitions associated with the “who” question, but all too often, these people do not check whether they use a specific term with the same meaning as their counterpart understands the term. In this terminology, the aim is to provide stakeholder terms and definitions that can be commonly used across a wide range of activities in the supply chain and goods movement process operations and be understood the same way by those using these terms.

3.2 In this terminology, a number of foundational stakeholder terms and concepts related to being able to start responding to the “who” question are first introduced. After that section, this terminology is split into sections that group related terms and concepts together.

3.3 The reason for this structure is that this ensures that a user of this terminology will see the related terms when searching for a specific term. In many instances, the user may then see the related terms and realize that one of those related terms is a better fit for the purposes that the user had in mind when starting the search in this terminology.

3.4 The structuring of the section grouping the related terms and definitions evolves over time, and therefore, this section does not provide an overview of those sections. Such an overview may be added in future versions of this terminology.

Subcomité:

F49.01

Volúmen:

10.04

Palabras clave:

entity; goods movement process; logistics; stakeholder; supply chain; transportation;