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Category
A distinct, separate and manageable group of products that are perceived by consumers
to be interrelated.
Category Management.
The management of groups of products that are interchangeable, or substitutable, in meeting consumer needs as opposed to the traditional concentration on individual products and brands.
Central Distribution Centre
A warehouse that is the sole stocking point for the distribution system that it serves.
Grocery manufacturers commonly have central (or national) distribution centres, stocked
by various manufacturing points and serving various retailer distribution warehouses.
See National distribution centres.
Co-Managed Inventory.
A support arrangement similar to Vendor Managed Inventory but where replacement orders for the vendor-owned stock are agreed by the user prior to delivery.
Component.
A part, ingredient, or subassembly that is both a component to a higher level part, and a parent part to other components.
Component Part.
Raw material, ingredient, part, or subassembly that goes into a higher level assembly, compound, or other part.
Composite Delivery
A multi-temperature distribution centre. The receipt, storage and handling of products
would typically take place in a variety of on-site chambers each operating at a specific
temperature.
Composite Distribution Centre (CDC)
A multi-temperature distribution centre. The receipt, storage and handling of products
would typically take place in a variety of on-site chambers each operating at a specific
temperature.
Consignment Stock.
The stock of goods held by an external customer which is still the property of the supplier but for which payment is only made when stock is sold or used by the customer.
Consolidation
The loading of two or more suppliers’deliveries to a retailer’s RDC on a single vehicle. This
aims to improve load utilisation and also improve unloading time at the RDC.
Consolidation Centres
Depots that store and/or process stock (see cross docking) into full loads for delivery to
retailer RDCs.
Consumable.
A classification of stock used to describe items or products that are totally consumed in use e.g. paper, oil, grease etc.
Cost to Serve.
Is a Supply Chain analytical approach, utilising activity based cost techniques that identifies the costs of servicing specific customers, with specific products, by allocating costs to customers, products and channels.
Cross Docking
A system where products for store orders are not put away into the warehouse racking
for later picking but are processed into store orders on arrival at the RDC. This can entail
breaking down the inward delivery into store ready consignments or if the consignments
are pallet sized moving the pallets across the docking area for loading onto the store
delivery vehicle. This movement of product across warehouse vehicle docking bays gives
the process its name
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