Places where materials are stored for future use or through which materials are passed on to transporters.
What is Warehouse/Distribution Centers
100
Material handling requirements, due dates, negotiated terms and conditions.
What is Customer responsibilities.
100
All activities associated with prepping an item for movement.
What is Shipping
100
Basic modes of logistics transportation.
What is air, rail, truck, water, pipeline.
100
An interconnected network of facilities, transportation lanes, and information systems.
What is the Supply Chain.
200
Mines, farms, etc. that extract raw materials needed to produce a product
What are raw material providers.
200
The process of sourcing and building product inventory to establish targets based on customer needs.
What is Supply
200
Key function of the shipping department.
What is loading
200
Physically connects the sources of supply with customers,
What is Transportation.
200
Name key activities paid for by the customer.
What is pay for the initial product, pay for the handling of that product as it moves through each facility in the supply chain.
300
Sites that convert raw materials into manufactured products.
What is a production facility.
300
Receiving, stocking, order processing, and shipping.
What are the four basic functions of most wharehouse/distribution centers.
300
Assembling products from various locations for a specific customer order.
What is Order Processing
300
A supply chain is only as strong as this.
What is the weakest link.
300
Material ready for use in production
What is Raw materials
400
The fountainhead for all logistics activities.
What is customer demand.
400
Physical receipt of materials, identifying goods accuracy, and dispatching the items to the correct location for storage or further distribution.
What is Receiving
400
The activity of getting items from various locations and sending them to shipping.
What is Picking.
400
Each link in the supply chain is dependent upon this.
What is each other.
400
Products that are in the process of being transported from a supplier to a customer.
What is In-transit inventory
500
Those entities which deliver materials to manufacturers, retailers, and consumers.
What is transportation
500
Assigning products to the proper location within the facility.
What is Stocking.
500
The activity where goods received from an incoming transporter and immediately sent to an outgoing transporter.
What is Cross Docking
500
Name three emerging economic and global trends.
What is a) growing transportation costs b) rising customer expectations of responsiveness c) increasing surge of global logistics flow due to international trade and the internet d) widespread adoption of computer-based technologies e) rise in global economic competitiveness.
500
Inventory including all materials currently being worked on.