This is the process of moving material and information across international boundaries within a global network of connected facilities and transportation modes.
What is global logistics?
100
This is inventory, including all the materials being currently worked on.
What is work in process or WIP?
100
Regulations from this agency are enforced by the United States Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
What is C-TPAT?
100
These are guided by a fixed path such as rails, tracks, or computer aided.
What is an AGV?
100
These are five types of transportation typically found in the supply chain.
What are truck, air, rail, water, pipeline, and intermodal?
200
This type of inventory includes producta that are in the process of being transported from a supplier to a customer.
What is intransit inventory?
200
This is the term normally associated with order processing.
What is picking?
200
A primary goal of this policy is to increase profits for participating countries.
What is FAST?
200
This is the type of equipment used to bridge the gap between a vehicle deck and the warehouse doors.
What is a dock plate?
200
This is a substance or material capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported.
What is hazmat?
300
This is the movement, storage, control, and protection of materials and products throughout the process of their manufacture, distribution, consumption, and disposal.
What is material handling logistics?
300
In terms of facility design, this is the volume of goods expected to move through a warehouse.
What is throughput?
300
This agency is responsible for developing and enforcing hazmat rules and regulations.
What is USDOT - EPA?
300
This is a forklift equipped with pneumatic tires.
What is a yard lift?
300
These are three ways that distribution companies measure productivity.
What are: units per hour, cases per hour, labor cost per case, line items per hour, pallets per hour, etc.
400
These are the driving force throughout the life cycle of a product.
What are the customers?
400
Some facilities use overhead handling equipment such as these to maximize space usage.
What are gantry cranes or overhead conveyors?
400
This federal agency is devoted to workplace safety.
What is OSHA?
400
This is the most common piece of equipment in most warehouses.
What is a sit-down counterbalance forklift?
400
This type of conveyor is the most basic and least expensive type of conveyor.
What is a gravity conveyor?
500
This term describes the time it takes to process an order, from the time the order is received from the customer until the order is delivered to that customer.
What is order cycle time?
500
All advance manifests must be submitted in at least this amount of time prior to arrival for rail.
What is 2 hours?
500
These are three advantages to membership to C-TPAT.
What are reduced inspections, access to other members, more appealing to other C-TPAT members, etc.?
500
These types of equipment can operate in a 6-foot aisle.
What are stock pickers and turret trucks?
500
These types of equipment can operate in 9-foot aisles.
What are reach trucks, wire-guided or rail-guided?