Shipping Terms

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Any Quantity Rate (AQ)

Any Quantity Rate (AQ)

Any Quantity Rate (AQ) means that the same freight rate applies to any size shipment tendered to a carrier; no discount rate is available for large shipments.

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Accounts Payable

Active Inventory

Activity Analysis

Activity Based Budgeting (ABB)

Activity Based Costing (ABC)

Activity Based Costing Model

Activity Based Costing System

Activity Based Management (ABM)

Activity Based Planning (ABP)

Activity Dictionary

Activity Driver

Activity Network Diagram

Actual Cost System

Actual to Theoretical Cycle Time

Adaptive Control

Adaptive Smoothing

Advance Material Request

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)

Advanced Shipping Notice

After Sale Service

Aggregate Forecast

Aggregate Inventory

Aggregate Inventory Management

Aggregate Planning

Aggregate Tender Rate

Agile Manufacturing

Air Cargo Containers

Air Transport Association of America

Airline Terminal Fee (ATF)

Airport and Airway Trust Fund

Alaskan Carrier

All Cargo Carrier

Alternate Routing

American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

American Society for Quality (ASQ)

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)

American Society of Transportation & Logistics

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

American Trucking Association (ATA)

American Waterways Operators

Anti-Dumping Duty

Anticipated Delay Report

Anticipation Inventories

Any Quantity Rate (AQ)

Appraisal Costs

Approved Vendor List (AVL)

Assemble-to-order

Association of American Railroads

Assumed Receipt

Automated Broker Interface (ABI)

Automated Call Distribution

Automated Clearing House (ACH)

Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)

Automated Guiding Vehicle System (AGVS)

Automated Manifest System (AMS)

Automated Storage-Retrieval System (AS-RS)

Automatic Relief

Automatic Rescheduling

Available Inventory

Available to Promise (ATP)

Available to Sell (ATS)

Average Cost per Unit

Average Inventory

Average Payment Period (for materials)