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Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Item - Answer A specific SKU
Line - Answer Multiple requirements for a particular SKU, i.e, the number of items of a
particular SKU
How would the order cycle process be without an automated decision-making system? - Answer
The process could take weeks as the order is shuffled among sales, customer service, logistics
and accounting departments. The paper trail may be haphazard and error prone.
What is a SKU? - Answer stock keeping unit- pronounced skew- A SKU is a number or string
of alphabetic and numeric characters that uniquely identifies an item or product.
What could a SKU be used for in most companies? - Answer A SKU could be used for as an
universal number, a supplier part number or a unique identifier
Why have order picking activities become harder to manage? - Answer Due to new operating
programs such as just-in-time(JIT), cycle reduction, quick response and new marketing
stratitgies.
What do new operating programs require about smaller orders? - Answer That smaller
orders be delivered to customers more frequently and accurately and that more SKUs be put
into the order picking system.
What does WMS stand for - Answer Warehouse Management System
What does the WMS do when its time to ship an order? - Answer It generates a pick list that
indicates the quantities of each item in the order.
What does the order picker instruction process do? - Answer It describes the SKU, directs the
picker to the SKU pick position, indicates the SKU quantity and states the customers name or
order identification number.
What type of instructions on put onto a pick list? - Answer alpha/numeric characters that
identify specific aisles or SKU pick positions in the facility
, What can a pick list be printed on? - Answer A paper document, a label a lighted display with
letters and numbers, or even through an audio headset
What does a WMS allow a pick list to do? - Answer to be generated in a productive sequence
for the pickers
What does an order picker do with the pick list? - Answer He/She take the pick list with
instructions and retrieves the items in the order in which they appear on the list
What beneficial approach does a pick list come with? - Answer true savings, savings in time,
savings in the distance traveled by the picker, and savings in money
Area System/Single Order Pick - Answer A system where the picker goes through the
warehouse and picks the items on the order-this system is usually used in small warehouses
where there is a set place for each item
What three overall systems can be used to organize the picking function? - Answer Area
System/Single Order Pick, Zone Pick, and Multi-order Batch Pick
Zone Pick - Answer Where the warehouse is divided into zones and orders pickers only work
in their own zone or area
Multi-order Batch Pick - Answer similar to the zone pick system except that instead of
handling orders one by one, a number of orders are gathered together with all the items divided
by zone
Within the three overall systems, in what ways can picking be carried out? - Answer Pick to
order, Batch Picking, and Pick-by-line or pick-to-zero
Pick-to-Order - Answer
Batch-Picking - Answer
Pick-to-Order - Answer one picker in one circut of the picking area collects the items for one
another
Pick by label - Answer Where a gummed label is printed for each item to be picked.