{"id":1685,"date":"2017-12-26T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2017-12-29T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:54:26","slug":"supply-chain-operations-management-glossary-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/supply-chain-operations-management-glossary-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain and Operations Management Glossary (U)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>UCC (Uniform Commercial Code):<\/b>\u00a0a standard set of laws governing commercial transactions (bills of lading, letters of credit, bank deposits, collections, etc.) adopted by all states in the U.S. except Louisiana (it uses a variant of the Napoleonic code).<\/p>\n<p><b>UCC (Uniform Code Council):<\/b>\u00a0An industry group to promote multi-industry standards for product identification or bar codes. See http:\/\/www.uc-council.org<\/p>\n<p><b>ULD (Unit Load Device):<\/b>\u00a0A cargo carrying container of standard size, usually in the airfreight industry.<br \/>\nThese can be carried by most large aircraft, but not by smaller aircraft such as the B737 or the MD80.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ullage:\u00a0<\/b>Unfilled space at the top of a storage tank, perhaps filled with inert gas.<\/p>\n<p><b>Unit train:<\/b>\u00a0train, typically for hauling coal, used for repeated hauls, so that cars in it are never disconnected.<\/p>\n<p><b>Unitization:<\/b>\u00a0the process of bundling a collection items (e.g., cases) together, as on a pallet, mainly to simplify transportation. Similar to containerization or palletization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPC (Universal Product Code)<\/strong>\u00a0A 10 to 12 digit machine readable numeric product code originated in the food industry. The first several digits represent the manufacturer, the remaining digits the product. See also bar code, GTIN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use tax:<\/strong>\u00a0A tax by a state on purchases by a firm in the state on purchases from an out-of-state supplier. The use tax rate is generally identical to the state sales tax rate on the item. Generally, individuals disregard a state\u2019s request to pay sales tax on out-of-state purchases. State legislators introduced the use tax to enforce this request on firms (who do not vote). See also nexus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCC (Uniform Commercial Code):\u00a0a standard set of laws governing commercial transactions (bills of lading, letters of credit, bank deposits, collections, etc.) adopted by all states in the U.S. except Louisiana (it uses a variant of the Napoleonic code)&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}