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Picking
1) As in order picking - the task of selecting product items from stock. Carried out by order picker in accordance with a picking list.
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Pick-up truck
1) Light goods vehicle with an integral open back/load space behind the driving compartment - sometimes called a backie/baccy (eg in South Africa). See also Car-derived van of which the pick-up is an open version.
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PI
1) (1) Performance indicator. (2) Public Inquiry. Hearing by Traffic Commissioner of matters connected with 'O' licences. Also part of the government's public consultation process on road building, route selection processes.
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PGR
1) Packaged Goods Regulations. Abbreviated term for the CDGCPL2 regulations.
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PFL
1) The Peoples' Fuel Lobby. UK-based protest and lobbying group formed to campaign against high fuel taxes.
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PEST analysis
1) Political, economic, socio-cultural, technological. The concept of analysing the external PEST environment in which a company operates.
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Picker
1) Person employed to 'pick' goods from stocks on warehouse shelving in accordance with customer's order. See also Order picker and Picking list.
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Pick face
1) The primary location in a warehouse at which order picking, of less than pallet loads, is undertaken. (Source: ILT Supply-Chain Inventory Management SIG)
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PHARE
1) IRU project to establish Vocational Training Centres in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) to bring standards into line with those of industry in the EU (ie Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia).
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PG 9
1) Vehicle Inspectorate form used to denote prohibition of use of vehicle on the road. Issued by vehicle examiners when vehicle found to be defective and unsafe to operate (also illegal and prosecution may follow).
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PFI
1) Private finance initiative. A strategy whereby government initiated projects are funded by private finance. See also PPP.
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Personal mobility
1) The availability of an individual's choice and freedom to move around by any particular mode.
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