Shipping Week #1 day 3

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

 

• Value-added service warehouse

• Finished goods warehouse

• Components warehouse

• Local warehouse

A warehouse that serve as the facility where key product customization activities are executed, including packaging, labeling, marking, pricing, and returns processing is a:

 

 

• Value-added service warehouse

• Local warehouse

• finished goods warehouse

• components warehouse

     A warehouse that receives, picks, and ships small orders for individual customers is a:

 

• Finished goods warehouse

• Work-in-progress warehouse

• Fulfillment warehouse and fulfillment center

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

 

• Cost of Sales

• Cost of insurance

• cost of labor

• cost of goods

The systematic analysis of item and order activity is:

• Warehouse activity profiling

• Warehouse design profiling

• Warehouse automation profiling

    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:

 

• Innovating

• Profiling

• Benchmarking

• Automating

Activity profiling process is designed to quickly identify:

• Design cause

• cause and effect

• root causes

  What do customers really want from the warehouse? 

 

• A place to store their goods

• A state of the art facility

• They want their orders filled

• Nothing

   In the popularity distribution we want our items where:

 

• close to the door, close to the floor

• Away from the door, off the floor

• Away from the door, close to the floor

    When material and information flows through a warehouse it will facilitate excellent what?

 

• Customer complaints

• Customer orders

• Customer retention

• Customer Service