CHAPTER 10: WAREHOUSING MANAGEMENT

1. Warehousing and ____ are substitutes for each other.

• a. transportation

• b. materials handling

• c. packaging

• d. inventory management

• e. none of the above

2. ____ and ____ refer to adjustments associated with the quantity of product.

• a. allocating; assorting

• b. accumulating; allocating

• c. sorting out; accumulating

• d. sorting out; assorting

3. ____ involves bringing together similar stocks from different sources.

• a. bulk-breaking

• b. assorting

• c. accumulating

• d. sorting out

4. ____ refers to building up a variety of different products for resale to particular customers.

• a. accumulating

• b. allocating

• c. sorting out

• d. assorting

5. ____ refers to separating products into grades and qualities desired by different target markets.

• a. assorting

• b. sorting out

• c. allocating

• d. accumulating

6. Warehouses emphasize ____ and their primary purpose is to maximize ____.

• a. rapid movement of product; usage of available storage space

• b. rapid movement of product; throughput

• c. product storage; usage of available storage space

• d. product storage; throughput

7. Distribution centers emphasize ____ and their primary purpose is to maximize ____.

• a. rapid movement of product; throughput

• b. product storage; throughput

• c. product storage; usage of available storage space

• d. rapid movement of product; usage of available storage space

8. Throughput refers to ____.

• a. storage capacity of a warehousing facility

• b. volume through a pipeline

• c. inventory turnover in a one-month period

• d. amount of product entering and leaving a facility in a given time period

9. ____ refers to a process where a product is received in a facility, occasionally married with product going to the same destination, and then shipped at the earliest time, without going into longer-term storage.

• a. just-in-time

• b. cross-docking

• c. accumulation

• d. agglomeration

10. Warehousing labor safety practices in the United States are monitored by which federal government agency?

• a. Warehousing Safety Administration

• b. Department of Commerce

• c. Food and Drug Administration

• d. Consumer Product Safety Commission

• e. none of the above