Shipping and Receiving week 2/3 day 3/4

Checking orders for completeness, packaging merchandise in appropriate shipping containers, preparing shipment documents, including packing list, address labels and bills of lading, loading trucks, accumulating orders by outbound carrier, and weighing shipments to determine shipping charges is the function of:

•      Unitizing and shipping

• Packaging/pricing

• Putaway

• Sortation

Order picking utilizes the majority of the_______ in a warehouse operation.

• Supervision

• Workforce

• Customers

• Vendors

New operating programs include;

• Just-in-Time /Cycle time reduction

• Slow response / Cycle time increase

• Pick and pack / Value added

The acronym STP stands for:

• Stop-taking-products

• Standard-training-procedures

• Stock-to-product line

• None of the above

If the initial design of stock-to-picker system is not _______, a significant portion of the order picker’s time may be spent waiting on the storage/retrieval machine to bring pick locations forward.

 

• Inaccurate

• Accurate

• Robotic

• Manual

If the order picker completes more than one order during a picking tour, picking carts equipped with ____ or ___ may be designed to enable the picker to sort material into several orders at a time.

 

• Dividers or totes

• Clipboards or tablets

• Computers or RF readers

• Modules or cabinets

By increasing the number of ____ and ____ picked by an order picker during a picking tour, the travel time per pick can be reduced.

 

• Customers and cartons

• Orders and items

• Pickers and totes

• Operators and equipment

   In ________, each order picker completes one order at a time.

• Batch order picking

• Zone order picking

• Single order picking

• Cycle order picking

The acronym PTS stands for:

 

 

• Processing-to-sortation

• Programing-to-stocking

• Picker-to-sortation

• None of the above

The major advantage of single order picking is that _______ is never jeopardized.

 

 

• Order processing

• Order picking

• Order inventory

• Order Integrity