For freight billing, storage allocation, and handling planning, the operative unit is not the individual item but the packaging unit: the smallest consolidated logistical unit in which multiple products or a defined quantity of goods are permanently grouped together.
Source: https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/gebinde-43337
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