Glossary of Supply Chain Terms "H"

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Handling Costs: The cost involved in moving, transferring, preparing, and otherwise handling inventory.

Hard Copy: Computer output printed on paper.

Harmonized Commodity Description & Coding System (Harmonized Code): An international classification system that assigns identification numbers to specific products. The coding system ensures that all parties in int'l. trade use a consistent classification for the purposes of documentation, statistical control, and duty assessment.

Haulage: The inland transport service which is offered by the carrier under the terms and conditions of the tariff and of the relative transport document.

HAWB: See House Air Waybill (HAWB).

Hawthorne Effect: From a study conducted at the Hawthorne Plant of Western Electric Company from 1927-1932 which found that the act of showing people that you are concerned usually results in better job performance. Studying and monitoring of activities are typically seen as being concerned and results in improved productivity.

Hazardous Goods: Articles or substances capable of posing a significant risk to health, safety, or property, and that ordinarily require special attention when transported. Also called Dangerous Goods.

Hazardous Material: A substance or material which the Department of Transportation has determined to be capable of posing a risk to health, safety, and property when stored or transported in commerce.

Heijunka: In the just-in-time philosophy, an approach to level production throughout the supply chain to match the planned rate of end product sales.

Hierarchy of Cost Assignability: In cost accounting, an approach to group activity costs at the level of an organization where they are incurred, or can be directly related to. Examples are the level where individual units are identified (unit level), where batches of units are organized or processed (batch level), where a process is operated or supported (process level), or where costs cannot be objectively assigned to lower level activities or processes (facility level). This approach is used to better understand the nature of the costs, including the level in the organization at which they are incurred, the level to which they can be initially assigned (attached), and the degree to which they are assignable to other activity and/or cost object levels, i.e., activity or cost object cost, or sustaining costs.

Hi-Low: Usually refers to a forklift truck on which the operator must stand rather than sit.

Highway Trust Fund: A fund into which highway users (carriers and automobile operators) pay; the fund pays for federal government's highway construction share.

Highway Use Taxes: Taxes that federal and state governments assess against highway users (the fuel tax is an example). The government uses the use tax money to pay for the construction, maintenance, and policing of highways.

Home Page: The starting point for a web site. It's the page that's retrieved and displayed by default when a user visits a web site. The default home-page name for a server depends on the server's configuration. On many web servers, it is index.html or default.htm. Some web servers support multiple home pages.

Hopper Cars: Railcars that permit top loading and bottom unloading of bulk commodities; some hopper cars have permanent tops with hatches to provide protection against the elements.

Horizontal Play/Horizontal Hub: This is a term for a function that cuts across many industries and usually defines a facility or organization that is providing a common service.

Hostler: An individual employed to move trucks and trailers within a terminal or warehouse yard area.

House Air Waybill (HAWB): A bill of lading issued by a forwarder to a shipper as a receipt for goods that the forwarder will consolidate with cargo from other shippers for transport.

Household Goods Warehouse: A warehouse that stores household goods.

House to House: See Door to Door.

House to Pier: See Door to Port.

HR: See Human Resources (HR).

Hub:

1) A large retailer or manufacturer having many trading partners.

2) A reference for a transportation network as a "hub and spoke" which is common in the airline and trucking industry. For example, a hub airport serves as the focal point for the origin and termination of long-distance flights where flights from outlying areas are fed into the hub airport for connecting flights.

3) A common connection point for devices in a network.

4) A web "hub" is one of the initial names for what is now known as a "portal." It came from the creative idea of producing a web site which would contain many different "portal spots" (small boxes that looked like ads with links to different, yet related content). This content, combined with Internet technology, made the idea a milestone in the development and appearance of web sites, primarily due to the ability to display a lot of useful content and store one's preferred information on a secured server. The web term "hub" was replaced with portal.

5) An Internet web site that provides a central repository for data or a central planning capability in an industry or supply network.

Hub Airport: An airport that serves as the focal point for the origin and termination of long-distance flights; flights from outlying areas meet connecting flights at the hub airport.

Human Resources (HR): The function broadly responsible for personnel policies and practices within an organization.

Hundredweight (CWT): a pricing unit used in transportation (equal to 100 pounds).
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