The Basics
This term describes how products move from the producer to the customer.
What is the supply chain?
This means moving goods from one place to another.
What is transportation?
This company is well known for fast shipping and online shopping.
What is Amazon?
This food never spoils.
What is honey?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This part of the supply chain focuses on purchasing goods from suppliers.
What is procurement?
This transportation method uses trucks and highways.
What is trucking?
Restaurants rely on this to make sure they don’t run out of ingredients.
What is inventory?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This word means spending less money than you earn.
What is saving?
This is the place where products are stored before being sold or shipped.
What is a warehouse?
This method is commonly used to ship goods between countries across oceans.
What is sea transportation?
This happens when a store has no products available to sell.
What is a stockout?
This app is famous for short videos and viral trends.
What is TikTok?
This type of graph uses bars to compare data.
What is a bar chart?
This term describes a step in the process that slows everything down.
What is a bottleneck?
This term refers to planning how products will be delivered to customers.
What is logistics?
This term means having more products than you can sell.
What is excess inventory?
This Disney movie features a snowman named Olaf.
What is Frozen?
This document shows a company’s income and expenses.
What is an income statement?
This is the main goal of supply chain management: meeting customer needs efficiently.
What is customer satisfaction?
This refers to the amount of time it takes for an order to arrive.
What is lead time?
This global event caused major supply chain delays and shortages.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
This singer is often called the “Queen of Pop.”
Who is Madonna?
This U.S. holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
What is Thanksgiving?