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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

The electronic exchange of business documents between trading partners in a standard format. EDI documents used to manage road transportation include 204, 210, 214, 856 and 990.

Electronic On-Board Recorder

Records equipment motion and distance over a time period, speeds, etc.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

A business management application that integrates various areas of a business, including planning, manufacturing, sales, and marketing. SAP is an example of an ERP.

Entity

A business object such a carrier, customer, hub, zone, or tariff.

Equipment

Any type of vehicle used in the transportation of freight. This includes a truck, barge, rail car, automobile, ocean-going freighter, or any other kind of device used to move goods. Equipment could refer to the asset providing power or the cargo unit.

Equipment Type

The type of equipment. Equipment type can be assigned to shipment legs, loads, and trips to specify the type of vehicle used to transport goods.

ERP

See Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

ETA

Estimated Time of Arrival.

ETD

Estimated Time of Departure.

Event

Any transaction that occurs in Transportation Manager. The event could cause a change in status. Most events are recorded using a combination of auditing, audit trail and event notification.

Event Notification

A module in Transportation Manager that facilitates the delivery of event information to other parties and/or applications.

Event Reason Code (ERC)

A code indicating the reason an event was triggered.

Execution Tariffs

Execution Tariffs will eligible for selection when routing, rating and scheduling (or routing and rating) A/P transactions (loads, trips, shipment legs, A/P side for NOFs). The Tariff Attribute for Execution Tariffs will be "Carrier Specific Tariff" or "Customer Specific Carrier Tariff". See Planning tariffs for comparison.

Expense

An accounting term referring to a cost of doing business. Expenses are combined with revenues to produce an income statement, which documents the amount of profit realized (or loss incurred) for a company over an accounting period.