Shipping and Receiving week 1 exam

  Warehousing is expensive, making up between two and five percent of the of a corporation.

 

• cost of goods

• cost of labor

• cost of sale

• cost of insurance

  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

   Warehouse performance, practices, and operating infrastructure against world-class standards to determine gaps, to quantify opportunities for improvement, and to estimate the affordable investment in new material and information handling systems is the principle of .

 

• innovating

• profiling

• benchmarking

• automating

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

 

• Innovating

• profiling

• benchmarking

• automating

To computerize and mechanize is the principle of .

 

• innovating

• profiling

• benchmarking

• automating

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 .

 

• innovating

• profiling

• humanizing

• automating

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 .

 

• order picking

• prepacking

• putaway

• receiving

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 .

 

• Order picking

• prepacking

• Putaway

• Receiving

The act of placing merchandise in storage, and includes material handling, location verification and product placement is the function of .

 

• Order picking

• Prepackaging

• Putaway

• Receiving

   The process of removing items from storage to meet a specific demand and is the basic service of the warehouse to their customers and the function that most warehouse designs are based is the function of .

 

• order picking

• packaging/picking

• putaway

• sortation