Warehouse - Answers A place to receive, store, and ship materials.
Distribution Center (DC) - Answers Typically a finished goods warehouse designed for demand-driven
rapid distribution to retailers, wholesalers, or direct shipments to customers.
Warehousing - Answers The activities related to receiving, storing, and shipping materials to and from
production or distribution locations.
Spot Stock Warehousing - Answers Positioning seasonal items in proximity to the market; when the
season ends, these items are either disposed of or relocated to a more centralized location.
Throughput - Answers The rate at which the system generates "goal units."
Private Warehouse - Answers A company-owned warehouse.
Public Warehouse - Answers The warehouse space that is rented or leased by an independent business
providing a variety of services for a fee or on a contract basis.
Bonded Warehouses - Answers Buildings or parts of buildings designated by the US Secretary of the
Treasury for storing imported merchandise, operated under US Customs supervision.
Consolidation - Answers The grouping of shipments to obtain reduced costs or improved utilization of
the transportation function.
Break-Bulk - Answers Dividing truckloads, railcars, or containers of homogeneous items into smaller,
more appropriate quantities for use.
Cross-Docking - Answers The concept of packing products on incoming shipments so they can be easily
sorted at intermediate warehouses or for outgoing shipments based on final destination.
Cross-Docking Warehouse - Answers A warehouse or portion of a warehouse used for cross-docking.
Automated Storage & Retrieval System (AS/RS) - Answers A high-density rack inventory storage system
that uses vehicles to automatically load and unload the racks.
Warehouse Receiving - Answers A key process in warehouse operations that ensures the correct product
has been received, in the right quantity, in the right condition, and at the right time.
Slip Sheets - Answers Thin sheets of fiberboard or plastic on which product is stacked, used as an
alternative to wood pallets because they take up little space in warehouses or shipping containers.
Warehouse Storage - Answers Using a building or other structure as a planned space for storing goods
and materials.
First Expiry, First Out (FEFO) - Answers Method where the oldest product in terms of shelf life is picked
first.
, Part-to-Picker System - Answers System where the pick location is brought to the order picker.
Picker-to-Part System - Answers System where the picker goes to the product location.
Picking List - Answers A document that lists the material to be picked for manufacturing or shipping
orders.
What are the four basic approaches to order picking? - Answers - Discrete order picking
- Batch picking
- Zone picking
- Wave picking
Sorting - Answers The function of physically separating a homogeneous subgroup from a heterogeneous
population of items.
Replenishment - Answers Relocating material from a bulk storage area to an order storage area and
documenting this relocation.
Unit Load - Answers A shipping unit made up of a number of items; bulky material arranged or
constrained so the mass can be picked up or moved as a single unit.
What are the four warehouse design principles? - Answers - Utilization of space
- Utilization of labor and equipment
- Utilization of capital
- Flexibility and scalability
What are the 10 steps in the design process of a warehouse? - Answers 1. Define business requirements
and design constraints
2. Define and obtain data
3. Formulate planning base for defined throughput
4. Define and describe activity requirements
5. Select equipment
6. Create internal and external layouts
7. Define information system operation
8. Estimate capital and operating costs