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The "Your Orders" section is a part of an e-commerce website or app where customers can view a history of their past orders, track deliveries, and access order-related information.

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Zone

Zone in logistics is used a proxy for distance travlled in shipping. Most courier partners define regions such as North, South, East, West or Special regions (this demarcates areas where cost of operations is higher than other parts of the country. For instance cost of operations in North East and Jammu, Kashmir is high due to difficult terrain). Zone is then defined as movement of shipments within the same city, within the same region, between two different regions, from metro to metro or to/from Special Regions.

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Volumetric divisor

This is a fixed number defined by courier partners and is used as the dividing factor while calculating volumetric or dimensional weight. The divisor can change from courier partner ot courier parntner or depending on the mode of transposrtation used - Air, Surface or Cargo movement

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Freigth Charges

Freigth Charges refer to the cost of movement of shipments from the origin destination to drop destiation. This is function of the weight of the shipment and the distnace travelled. Zones are used as proxies for distance travelled while calculating freight charges and the shipping weight (max of dead and volumteric weight) is used as the metric to measure weight of shipments

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FIFO

It is an inventory management technique, where the inventory that is bought the first is shipped first to the customer

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