Shipping and Receiving Day 1/2

One of the keys to success in warehouse operations is:

• Flexibility

• Inventory

• Space

  Warehouse flexibility is not achieved through:

 

• Process Design

• System selection and justification

• Layout configuration.

• Workers imput

  A warehouse that distributes in the field in order to shorten transportation distances to permit rapid response to customer demands is a:

• Work-in Progress Warehouse

• Local Warehouse

• Distribution Warehouse

Warehousing is expensive, making up between two and five percent of the:

• Cost of Sales

• Total Profit

• Total revenue

  Creating and maintaining order, item activity and planning reports to identify root causes of process impediments and breakthrough opportunities for improvement is the principle of:

• Analyzing

• Maintaining

• Profiting

• Profiling

Reconfiguring warehouse processes by eliminating and streamlining as much work content as possible is the principle of:

• Profiling

• Consolidating

• Innovation

    To computerize and mechanize is the principle of:

 

• Humanizing

• Automating

• Standardizing

BY involving warehouse operators in redesigning warehouse processes, by developing team and individual performance goals and by implementing ergonomic improvements in every manual activity in the warehouse is the principle of:

• Automating

• Humanizing

• Customizing

    The orderly receipt of all materials coming into the warehouse, providing the assurance that the quantity and quality of such materials are as ordered, and distributing materials to storage or to other organizational functions requiring them is the function of:

• Recieving

• Put away

• Consolidation

  When products are received in bulk from a supplier and subsequently packaged singly, in merchandisable quantities, or in combinations with other parts to form kits or assortments is the function of:

• Procurement

• Prepackaging

• Preclosing

• Preplacement