DCM Glossary / Business Terms

Summary

Description

SEKO 360 DCM (Demand Chain Management)

Offers a comprehensive solution for managing your supply chain from Purchase Order to Final Delivery.

Cargowise (CW1)

Global logistics platform/International Forwarding services which Integrates data to Seko360 DCM from Vendor Booking to Delivery

Client

Seko 360 Customer responsible for Creating Purchase Order, Authorizing Shipments and Managing final delivery

Vendor

Supplier of the Client who manufactures the goods and responsible for Arranging Booking of goods. Also acts a the “ Shipper”

Origin Agent

Seko360 Agent who arranges shipments from Vendor/factory to arrive at the Origin Port and Destination Port

Destination Agent

Seko360 Agent who is responsible for managing shipments from Destination Port to Final Delivery.

Branch

SEKO local Origin office

Shipper/Consignor

Sender of the shipment to appear in the Shipping documents

Consignee

Recipient of the shipment to appear in the Shipping documents

Term

Description

Purchase Order (PO)

is a document issued by a buyer to a supplier, detailing the specific goods or services to be purchased. It outlines the terms and conditions of the transaction, including quantities, prices, delivery dates, and payment terms.

Booking

An instruction or request received by a SEKO origin from Vendor, requesting movement of goods

Shipment

A sequence of operational activities that SEKO branches need to manage and oversee, in moving goods and fulfilling client Bookings, on behalf of a given Consignor / Consignee

Shipping Instruction (SI)

This is an instruction sent by Vendor includes Shipping details, documents and Final Packing

FCL

Full Container Load. Goods within an individual Shipment for a given consignor/consignee take up all the space in a Container. This term is officially applied to Sea and Rail shipments, although the concept also exists for Air freight

Container

Shipping containers are large, strongly built metal boxes that are used to transport goods over long distances.

Consolidation

Processing and loading of goods from multiple Shipments from different Suppliers/Vendor into one Container

Origin

A term representing a very broad location of activities, geographically located at or near the Shipper's factory with the freight stations, container yards and ports, in the Shipper's country

Destination

A term representing a very broad location of activities, geographically located at or near the Consignee's delivery warehouses with the freight stations, container yards and ports, in the Consignee's country

FCL

Full Container load

LCL

Less Than Container Load

CY/CY

(container yard to container yard) or Vendor Load shipment is an FCL shipment where the packed containerised cargo gets collected at the container yard of one origin port and is delivered to the container yard of the destination port.

CFS

(Consolidation and Forwarding Station) A shipment, where the goods are delivered at CFS for grouping (consolidating) them together for a specific destination.

MSDS

Material Safety Data Sheet is a document that contains information about the potential hazards of a product and how to safely handle, store, and dispose of it.

Load PO

Load Purchase Order

Create new or update Purchase Order

Load via iHub.

View PO List in DCM Interface

Load All PO

Load All Purchase Order

Load all open purchase orders by bulk.

If a PO line is excluded in the next upload=delete in Seko360 DCM

Push XUS

Push XML Universal Shipment

XUS Push is sent when a Shipment is created from a Booking for a Client that has subscribed to the ‘Push XUS’ service.

DCM data to Cargowise

Load XUS

Load XML Universal Shipment

Used to load CargoWise Shipment data into DCM

• Allows unlimited amount of routing legs

• Allows Rail to be added as a transport mode

• COB the Shipment if the Packing has been manually done

Load XUE

Load XML Universal Event

Load CargoWise Container events into DCM

Push SDS

Push Shipment Details Service

Pushed from multiple places (Approval, COB, Delivery Booking…)

Push ‘Draft’ from Shipment Push List and ‘Final’ from COB if Shipment is created from a booking for a Client that has subscribed to the ‘Push SDS’ service.

Load SI

Load Shipment Instruction

Used to create a Shipment Instruction (SI), update the SI data and pack the lines into Containers.

Created via iHub Generic services

Load Booking

Used to create Booking and new PO Lines Data into DCM.

Created via iHub FTP or REST

note: custom conditions are set for specific clients

Load DI Booking

Load Document Identifier

Client will upload “Document Identifier” for the booking from XML files to an FTP directory.

Done after Load Booking service

Push SOC

Push Shipping order confirmation

note: custom conditions are set for specific clients

Push SOCFCR

Push Shipping Order Freight Cargo Receipt

note: custom conditions are set for specific clients

Push SWB

Push Sea Waybill

note: custom conditions are set for specific clients

Shipment Requiring Authorisation

when a shipment is submitted and is awaiting for approval

origin agent -> client

Shipment Instruction (SI) Approval Request

When the SI has been submitted

vendor -> operations team/Branch

Booking Cancellation Request

when the Vendor requests a booking cancellation

vendor -> operations team/Branch

Booking Cancellation Confirmation

when the Origin Agent approves/rejects the booking cancellation request

origin agent -> supplier

(supplier email stated in the booking)

Shipment Routing

when Origin Agent amends the routing

origin agent -> client

Delivery Confirmed

when the delivery booking has been confirmed

destination agent -> client

Delivery Confirmation Declined

when the delivery booking confirmation has been declined

destination agent -> client

Delivery Amend Confirmed

when the delivery booking amendment has been confirmed

destination agent -> client

Delivery Amend Declined

when the delivery booking amendment has been declined

destination agent -> client

Delivery Cancel Confirmed

when the delivery booking cancellation has been confirmed

destination agent -> client

Delivery To Confirm

when the delivery booking is awaiting confirmation

client -> destination agent

Delivery Planned Amended

when the delivery booking amendment is awaiting confirmation

client -> destination agent

Delivery Planned Cancelled

when the delivery booking is cancelled

client -> destination agent