Transportation
The most commonly used mode of transportation.
What is Road?
What is the document that contains all the particulars of a relationship between a company and a supplier?
What is the Contract.
Inputs into the production plan include _____ of customer demand.
What are forecasts?
Inventory is an asset on the _____.
What is the Balance Sheet?
The attractiveness of a mode of transportation depends on flexibility, capacity, capability, reliability, speed, and ______.
What is Cost?
______ is the complete transfer of a business process to an external service provider.
What is outsourcing?
____ is the rate of product entering and leaving a facility per period of time.
What is throughput?
Two broad categories of inventory costs are setup/ordering costs and ____.
What are holding costs?
The fastest mode of transportation.
What is Air?
Free trade zones allow storage of goods within U.S. boundaries without ______ until the goods pass to the buying company.
What is payment?
ISO 14000 is a(n) ______ standard put in place to support the U.N.'s objective of sustainability.
What is environmental?
Safety stock is also known as ____.
What is buffer stock?
_____ conveys the freight terms and acts as both a contract for carriage and a receipt for delivery.
What is a Bill of Lading?
Once goods exit a Free Trade Zone, payment occurs and _____ are incurred.
What are duties?
The increasing fluctuations in orders that occur as orders move through the supply chain is called the ____.
What is the Bullwhip Effect?
EOQ tells us _____.
What is how much to order?
Three types of regulations apply to transportation including environmental, economic, and _____.
What is safety?
MRO is an expense category of inventory and stands for _____.
What is Maintenance, Repair, and Operations?
Three strategies used at the aggregate planning stage include level, hybrid, and _____.
What is chase?
ROP tells us ______.
What is when to place an order?