EXAM III Study Questions
Warehousing
How are inventory and warehousing costs related?
What is warehousing’s role in the logistical system?
What is the difference between breaking bulk and transloading?
What is consolidation?
How is warehousing sometimes part of the production process?
What is the difference between purchase economies and transportation economies with respect to the importance of warehousing?
What types of warehousing are there?
When is it better to use a private warehouse?
What are the basic types of public warehouses?
What are the major services provided by a public warehouse? What is a bonded warehouse? What is a field warehouse?
What changes did legislation make to regulate public warehousing?
What factors affect the rates at a public warehouse?
What are the principle documents used in running a public warehouse?
What are the two basic warehouse operations?
What are the movement operations in a warehouse? What is the order?
What principles should be followed in laying out a warehouse?
When does an automated (mechanized) warehouse work best? [textbook]
What is a distribution (terminal) warehouse? How does it differ from a storage warehouse?
What do we mean by centralization/decentralization? What factors impact the number of warehouses needed?
What factors are considered in determining the size of the warehouse? Where do you start in determining the size?
What is the General Area configuration and Modified Area configuration in warehouse layout?
What is the advantage of each?
Materials Handling
What is meant by materials handling?
What are the basic objectives of materials handling?
How can materials handling systems increase the effective capacity of the warehouse?
What types of moving equipment are there? [trucks, conveyors, cranes] Can you give examples of each?
What types of storage equipment are there? [pallets/skids, shelves/racks, containers] Can you give examples of each?
What types of racks should be used in specific situations?
When would a gravity feed be used? When would a power feed conveyor be used?
What is the difference between on square and angular pallet placement?
How would you categorize movement materials handling equipment looking from a design perspective?
What is the difference between the fixed stock locator method and the random locator method? When would each be used and what are their characteristics?
What are methods used in order picking? Explain each.
What factors are used in the selection of materials handling equipment?
How would you store goods by popularity, item size, or using the cube per order index?
What are some principles for placing (locating) stock in a warehouse?
What are the roles of packaging?
What types of materials are used in packaging?
What types of packaging are there?
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