shipment preparation process

IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/ShipmentPreparationProcess

Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/supplychain/SupplyChain/

SubClass Of: business process

Class Hierarchy

owl:Thing › bfo:entity › bfo:occurrent › bfo:process › planned process › business process › shipment preparation process

Definition

business process in which some material entities are prepared to be transported together to a receiver’s location.

Explanatory Notes

The activities related to preparation of outgoing shipment for transport. Shipment preparation process (shipping) often includes at least one picking, internal movement, packaging, marking, labeling, weighing, or loading process.

Examples

  • A tile manufacturer’s warehouse receives several order and generates a picking list for each order. Then the warehouse workers pick the tile boxes from the assigned inventory location. Warehouse workers then pack, label, and sort the products by carrier before moving them to the loading dock for shipping.

Synonyms

  • dispatch process

Primitive Class

This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.

Primitive Rationale

The required constructs for creation of a formal definition are not available in this release.

Formal Axioms

First-Order Logic Axioms 

ShipmentPreparationProcess(x) → BusinessProcess(x) ∧ ∃c∃m∃s(Consignor(c) ∧ MaterialProduct(m) ∧ Shipment(s) ∧ hasParticipantAtSomeTime(x,c) ∧ hasParticipantAtSomeTime(x,m) ∧ hasSpecifiedOutput(x,s))

Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms

if x is a ‘shipment preparation process’ then x is a business process’ and ‘has participant at some time’ some ‘consignor’ and ‘has participant at some time’ some ‘material product’ and ‘has specified output’ some ‘shipment’

Description Logic

constr:ShipmentPreparationProcess ⊑ ⊤

constr:ShipmentPreparationProcess ⊑ constr:BusinessProcess ⊓ ∃ bfo:has_participant .constr:MaterialProduct ⊓ ∃ bfo:has_participant .constr:Shipper ⊓ ∃ constr:hasSpecifiedOutput .constr:Shipment

SubClassOf: owl:Thing

SubClassOf: constr:BusinessProcess and bfo:has_participant some constr:MaterialProduct and bfo:has_participant some constr:Shipper and constr:hasSpecifiedOutput some constr:Shipment