Glossary

An end-of-year procedure can apply also over the entire life cycle of a vehicle (Life-Time).

Supplier warehouse concept from Audi.

A document issued by a supplier for shipping goods to a customer, describing where the goods will arrive. Multiple destinations can be specified.

Management of the flow of goods in order to reduce transport and storage costs with a well thought-out control of the flow of goods.

Logistics service providers provide logistical services for other companies, for example transport, warehousing, order picking.

System for storing files, typically used by a network service provider, until they are retrieved by their intended recipient.

Table for data transformation between a data source and a data target.

In business, the master agreement is a contract that deals with the future conclusion of many similar individual contracts that relate to the master agreement. It only regulates the framework conditions of a legal relationship, which must be specified in later individual contracts.

Article master data – this consists of basic data for identifying articles (Global Trade Item Number, GTIN) and suppliers (Global Location Number, GLN) and other article information such as size, weight of the product or type of packaging.

The customer specifies a date/period of time, for all allocations before this date there is an obligation on the part of the customer to accept the planned material.