HA

High Availability Clusters.

Handling Costs

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

Hard Copy

Computer output printed on paper.

Harmonized Code

An international classification system assigns identification numbers to specific products. The coding system ensures that all parties in international 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 the relative transport document.

Hawaiian carrier

A for-hire air carrier that operates within the state of Hawaii.

Hawthorne Effect

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

Hazardous Goods

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. Also, see Material Safety Data Sheet.

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. Also, see Material Safety Data Sheet.

HazMat

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. Also, see Material Safety Data Sheet.

Hedge Inventory

Excess inventories are held to provide a buffer against risks associated with certain contingent events. These events may include price increases and availability reductions that are associated with work stoppages, plant shutdowns, disasters, or acts of terrorism.

Heijunka

An element of the Toyota Production System that averages the volume and sequence of scheduled items to provide level production and help enable just-in-time (JIT).

Hierarchy of Cost Assignability

In cost accounting, an approach is used to group activity costs at the level of an organization where they are incurred or can be directly related to. Examples include 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.

High Availability Clusters (HA)

A group of linked computers, connected through a fast local area network, that is implemented primarily for the purpose of providing high availability of services.

Highway Trust Fund

Federal highway use tax revenues are paid into this fund, and the federal government's share of highway construction is paid from the fund.

Highway Use Taxes

Taxes assessed by federal and state governments against users of the highway (the fuel tax is an example). The use tax money is used to pay for the construction, maintenance, and policing of highways.

Hi-low

Usually, it refers to a forklift truck on which the operator must stand rather than sit.

Home Page

The starting point for a website is the page that is retrieved and displayed by default when a user visits the website. The default homepage 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 homepages.

Honeycombing

1. The practice of removing merchandise in pallet load quantities, where the space is not exhausted in an orderly fashion, results in inefficiencies. This is due to the fact that the received merchandise may not be efficiently stored in the space created by the honeycombing. 2. Storing or withdrawing supplies in a manner that results in vacant space, which is not usable for the storage of other items. 3. The creation of unoccupied space resulting from the withdrawal of unit loads is one of the major hidden costs of warehousing.

Honeycomb Loss

When storing multiple SKUs in a single region, full utilization of all the available space is not desirable because it could result in some items not being accessible. Honeycomb loss, the price paid for accessibility, is the unusable empty storage space in a lane or stack due to the storage of only a single SKU in each lane or stack. Storing items from different SKUs would block access.

Hopper Cars

Rail cars 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. Usually, it defines a facility or organization that is providing a common service.

Hoshin Planning

Also, 'Hoshin Kanri' is a step-by-step strategic planning process that assesses breakthrough strategic objectives against daily management tasks and activities. It provides a visual map at all levels of the organization and provides clear strategic direction. A company develops up to four vision statements that indicate where the company should be in the next five years. Company goals and work plans are developed based on the vision statements. Periodic audits are then conducted to monitor progress.

Hostler

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

Household Goods Warehouse

A warehouse is used to store household goods.

HR

Human Resources

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

Hub

1) A large retailer or manufacturer has many trading partners. 2) A reference for a transportation network, such as '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' was one of the initial names for what is now known as a 'portal'. It came from the creative idea of producing a website that 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 this idea a milestone in the development and appearance of websites, 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'

Hub Airport

An airport serves as the focal point for the origin and termination of long-distance flights. Flights from outlying areas are fed into the hub airport for connecting flights.

Human Factor Design

Incorporating scientific data on human physical capabilities into the design of equipment, products, and systems.

Human-Machine Interface

Any point where data is communicated from a worker to a computer or from a computer to a worker, data entry programs, inquiry programs, reports, documents, LED displays, and voice commands are all examples of human-machine interfaces.

Human Resources (HR)

The function is broadly responsible for personnel policies and practices within an organization.

Hundredweight (cwt)

A pricing unit used in transportation is equal to 100 pounds.

Hurdle Rate

The required rate of return in a discounted cash flow analysis is above which an investment makes sense and below which it does not.

Hybrid Inventory System

An inventory system combines multiple methodologies, such as push and pull, fixed and variable/dynamic, etc. Also, see the Fixed Reorder Cycle Inventory Model, Fixed Reorder Quantity Inventory Model, and Optional Replenishment Model.

Hyperinflation

Inflation that is out of control leads to prices rising rapidly as the currency loses its value.

Hyperlink

A computer term, also referred to as a 'link', is the text you find on a website that can be 'clicked on' with a mouse. Clicking on it will take you to another web page or a different area of the same web page. Hyperlinks are created or 'coded' in HTML.

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

The standard language for describing the contents and appearance of pages on the World Wide Web is HTML.

HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP)

The internet protocol that allows World Wide Web browsers to retrieve information from servers.