Dimerco Coding System for Management Units and Operating Units

Dimerco Coding System for Management Units and Operating Units

Dimerco Coding System for Management Units and Operating Units

DATE: Oct/07/2011

VERSION:7.1

OBJECTIVES:

For the purpose to improve communication efficiency, to enhance internal administration and control as well as to simplify classification for performance evaluation, the coding system shall be established per the following rules.

Unit
Coding Rule / Operating Unit / Management Unit /

Country

Station / Company / District / Regional / Corporate
Number of Letters / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 3 / 2
Coding Structure / Legal Entity (3 Letters) + IATA 3-Letter City or Airport Code / Legal Entity (3 Letters) + IATA 2-Letter Country Code / Region or Country Code (2 Letters)+ District Initial (2 Letters) / GCR– Greater China
NAR – North America
SER – South East Asia
EUR – Europe
NER – North East Asia / CRP – Corporate Office / IATA 2-Letter Country Code
Account Code for eFMS in Dimerco Value Plus System / Same as above / Same as above if needed / To be set by Regional Controller / To be set by Regional Controller / To be set by Corporate Controller
Sample / DFSTPE for Diversified Freight System Corp. – Taipei Office / DIMTW for Dimerco Express (Taiwan) Corp. / GCSE for S.E. China District
USCD for Central U.S.A. District / PH for Philippines

REMARKS:

  1. Station Code shall include 1st, 2nd & 3rd tier office as long as with sales function, but not airport office, shipping warehouse and/or logistics warehouse unless where an independent legal entity is established, such as DILSHA.

(Note: DILHKG is not applicable to this rule due to DILHKG is an existing exception.)

  1. New Station Coding Structure for the last 3-Letter code:
  2. New Station Code should not be applied in conflict with existing Station Code being used in Dimerco and/or IATA City or Airport Codes.
  3. If there is no IATA City or Airport Code available, Ocean Port Code can be applied.
  4. If there is no IATA City, Airport Code or no Ocean Port Code available, proper local code can be applied.
  5. If the new code to apply is duplicated with our existing code and/or IATA City or Airport Code, the first 2 letters of IATA City or Airport Code + the first letter of the city name shall be used to apply.

Ex. LFT for both LAFAYETTE in LA, US and NEW IBERIA in LA, US in IATA City or Airport Codes, then

 LFT for LAFAYETTE

 LFN for NEW IBERIA (Note: LFN is not duplicated to other IATA City or Airport Codes.)

(Note: DIMKSN, DIMSUZ, ZJDFNG, ZJDFON & DFSNBO are not applicable to this rule due to they are the existing exception.)

Name of Dimerco Station / Existing Dimerco Station Code / Duplicated to IATA City or Airport Codes / Office Classification
a. / Kunshan / KSN / Kustanay in Kazakhstan / 2nd
b. / Suzhou / SUZ / Suria in Papua New Guinea / 2nd
c. / Fenggang / FNG / Fada Ngourma in Burkina Faso / 3rd
d. / Foshan / FON / Fortuna in Costa Rica / 3rd
e. / Ningbao / NBO / Nairobi in Kenya / 2nd
  1. Station Code for the representative offices (3rd tier office) in Japan and India as below:

 DIMTYO for Dimerco Representative Office in Tokyo, Japan

 DIMMAA for Dimerco Representative Office in Chennai, India

  1. New Company Code and Station Code shall be proposed by Regional Head, District Head or Country Head to CRP HR & CRP Marketing of Corporate Office (CRP) for approval before formal announcement is to be made.
  2. In the meantime, “Standard Company or Station Code for Dimerco value plus system” will be updated synchronously and announced separately.

REFERENCE:

  1. IATA 3-Letter City or Airport Codes –
  2. SCAC 4-Letter Alpha Codes –

DIMERCO Manual1/3Version 7.1

Chapter 3-Section 1October 2011

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