Panamax
Specifications for the largest ship that can move through the Panama Canal.
Parcel
A freight service used to move shipments that generally weigh less than 200 pounds.
Payable Carrier Override
The assignment of specific charges of a load, shipment leg or shipment to another carrier.
Per-Unit Charge
The result of extending rating units by a per-unit rate.
Per-Unit Rate
The rate per rating unit as defined in a tariff’s rate structure. See "Rate", "System Calculated Rate" and "Charged Rate".
Physical Warehouse
Piggyback Service
In rail transportation, the practice of carrying trailers, semi-trailers or containers on top of a flatbed rail car.
Plan
A collection of loads, and shipment legs grouped temporarily for load planning purposes. A logistics planner will select a group of shipment legs and then group these into loads either manually or by using Transportation Planner. Loads may also be combined to form continuous moves during the optimization process.
Place of Receipt
Location where freight enters the care and custody of the carrier.
Planning Tariffs
Planning Tariffs exist only for modeling or comparative purposes. Planning Tariffs cannot be assigned to an operational or financial transaction (load, trip, shipment, shipment leg, non-operational freight) by the routing, rating and scheduling (or routing and rating) process. The Tariff Attribute for Planning Tariffs will be "Generic Planning Tariff" or "Customer Specific Planning Tariff". See Execution Tariffs for comparison.
POD
See "Proof of Delivery (POD)".
Point-to-Point
A load or trip that moves from an origin to a destination, as opposed to a round trip, which starts and ends at the same point. Distances for point-to-point loads or trips are measured from the first pick to the final drop.
Pool Point
See "Hub".
Post Audit
See "Audit".
Post Charge
A Transportation Manager financial term used to identify the process of modifying or adding to the anticipated cost for a freight movement that has already been processed by the A/P Transaction Generation process.
Post-Discharge
Unloading that is done without the carrier waiting while goods are unloaded from a trailer. The delivery by the carrier may have previously occurred outside of a location's normal business hours. See Non-Live Loading or Unloading.
Pre-Loading
Loading that is done without the carrier waiting while goods are loaded onto a trailer. The pick-up by the carrier may then be done outside of a location's normal business hours. See Non-Live Loading or Unloading.
Pre-Audit
See "Auto-Payment (Auto-Pay)".
Pre-purchased
Tariff Charges in Transportation Manager can be defined as being pre-purchased. This can be used to indicate that the expense associated with the charge is incurred in advance of use (e.g. prepaid postage). Monetary amounts associated with these charges will not be included in the invoice or freight bill total as the applicable amount will have already been paid by the customer (A/R) or shipper/3PL (A/P). This feature could also be used for "soft" costs (e.g. CO2) that do not represent amounts that will be payable. G/L transactions will be generated for pre-purchased amounts.
Prepaid
A freight term designating that the shipper or third party logistics provider will be paying for movement of the freight. Also see Collect.
Probill
Shipping document with a progressively assigned tracking number. See "Carrier Tracking Number".
Pro-number
Progressively assigned tracking number. See "Carrier Tracking Number".
Proof of Delivery (POD)
An event performed to indicate to confirm delivery of the freight. POD information includes the date, time, signature of a person who received the freight, number of containers, and the condition of the goods.
Property Page
A Property Page will present the attributes for a given entity on one or more tabs.
Prorated Amount
Any charge that is subdivided for the purpose of financial analysis. Prorated charges may be required to perform a gross margin analysis for a shipment, load or trip.
Pre-booked Capacity
A load originally built from temporary shipments that has advanced to the tendering workflow and has subsequently had one or more attached shipments removed, resulting in the preservation of not only the tender assignment, but also the stops and associated dock commitments with the intention of being refilled from available shipments by one or more re-planning executions based on conditions defined in the assigned carrier’s tariff/service profile.