2. Complete the table using suitable forms:

3. Translate English words and phrases in column A using Russian words and phrases from column B

4. Observe the words and phrases related to “Value Added Services”:

Concept whereby a service adds value to a product is called a value added service. In theory distribution adds value because it puts the product into the consumer’s hands.

1. After Sales Service (Reverse Logistics): a specialized segment of logistics focusing on the movement and management of products and resources after the sale and after delivery to the customer. Includes product returns for repair and/or credit.

2. Batch control: tracking the goods via digital easy-to-trace coding system. This control can be based on document counts, record counts, quantity totals, dollar totals, or hash (mixed data, such as customer AR numbers) totals.

3. Bundling/Unbundling: the assembly of a number of pre-packaged products to make up an integrated product offering.

4. Co-packing: packaging operation, often performed by the Logistics Service Provider in a dedicated zone of the warehouse, consisting of wrapping different products together (e.g., to bundle a sample of new product with an old product), or identical products (e.g., in the case of promotional offers).

5. eLogistics services or online logistics services: services that address inefficiencies in the transportation industry, usually involving goods ordered online that can be delivered to the consumer in a timely and efficient manner. The service might include any of the following: order entry, order management, shipment and vehicle tracking, communications and reporting).

6. Kitting: Light assembly of components or parts into defined units. Kitting reduces the need to maintain an inventory of pre-built completed products, but increases the time and labor consumed at shipment.

7. Labelling: the application of labels either to the product or to the packaging.

8. Line feeding: covers the delivery of assembled components to a production line.

9. Merchandising: selling the products; it can include the addition of price stickers or promotional items ready for retail display.

10. Outsourcing: a corporate decision to assign activities previously performed internally (e.g. transport/ warehousing or full-scale logistics service), to a third party, for example, a Logistics Service Provider. Initially, the shippers (manufacturing or commercial companies) outsourced transport, and then progressively did the same for more value-added logistics services.

11. Packing and Marking: The activities of packing products into suitable media for safe shipping and unitizing one or more items of an order, placing them into an appropriate container, and marking and labeling the container with customer shipping destination data, as well as other information that may be required.

12. Postponement packaging: the delay of packaging until the latest possible time.

13. Pre-assembling: the completion of a finished product from component parts or pre-programming of products.

14. Product assembly: a group of subassemblies and/or parts that are put together and that constitute a major subdivision for the final product. An assembly may be the end item or a component of a higher level assembly.

15. Repacking: Packing for a specific customer again. It can include repalletization. (Pallet: The platform which cartons are stacked on and then used for shipment or movement as group. Pallets may be made of wood or composite materials).