Glossary

Definitions of the terms used in the Events and Shipments modules, such as Business Step, Disposition, SSCC and Link Trace Info.

Term	Meaning
Aggregation	Packing lots into a container.
Business Step	The activity an event represents, from the CBV or GDST lists.
CBV	Core Business Vocabulary, the standard list of business steps and dispositions.
Confidence Score	How closely a candidate prior event matches a Direct Ship.
Container	A packed unit identified by an SSCC or Logistic ID.
Decommission	An event that removes a lot, or part of a lot, from active inventory. It requires a Disposition, which records why; there is no Reason field. The Containers tab cannot be used: disaggregate the container first.
Direct Receive	Recording a Receive for lots that have no earlier events in the account. It does not require an earlier Ship, so the receiving entity can log its Receive before the Ship is posted. It shows as an Inbound Shipment (Shipments > Inbound).
Direct Ship	Recording a Ship for lots that have no earlier events in the account. It shows as an Outbound Ship Event in the Outbound Shipments table. Its trace is linked afterwards with Link Trace Info.
Disaggregation	An event that unpacks a whole container. No quantities are entered.
Disposition	The state of the goods after the event. On a Decommission it also records why the goods were decommissioned.
Event List	The table of recorded events, one row per lot.
GDST	Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability.
Link Trace Info	Linking a Direct Ship or a Receive to earlier events. On a Receive, it lets you link upstream events that occurred with a date/time prior to the Direct Receive's date/time. On a Direct Ship, it lets you post events that occurred with a date/time prior to the Direct Ship's date/time. When a Receive is linked, it requires a Ship event; a Ship is the only event type that can be linked to a Receive.
Lot	A quantity of one product with a lot code.
Primary ID	In the List view, the lot or container identifier. "SSCC: lot code" means the lot is inside a container.
Read Point	Where the event was read or recorded.
Receive	An event that records a shipment arriving at a destination Location.
Shared Location	A Location that can be used as a destination Location on Ship events and as an origin Location on Receive events.
Ship	An event that records lots or containers leaving an origin Location for a destination Location. A Ship can use only part of a lot.
SSCC	Serial Shipping Container Code, 18 digits.
Total Lifecycle	The time span of a supply chain shown in a supply chain window or shipment page.
Transform	An event in which input lots are consumed to create output lots. The Containers tab cannot be used: disaggregate the container first.

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