Question

QUESTION 1

1. Warehouses have many functions. One of them is to:

   		Reduce the response time on a customer's order.
   		Reduce the inventory carrying costs of the company.
   		Reduce duty rates for the company.
   		Increase the response time to a customer's order.

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QUESTION 2

1. Warehouses can smooth out variations in:

   		End-product sales (seasonality).
   		Raw-material availability.
   		Raw materials' price fluctuations.
   		All of the above.

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QUESTION 3

1. When there can be potential disruptions in the supply chain, such as strikes, bad weather, or natural disasters, warehouses can help companies support their operations by:

   		Manufacturing extra products.
   		Carrying safety stocks.
   		Reduce labor costs.
   		Increasing inventory turns

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QUESTION 4

1. In a warehouse, consolidation refers to the process of:

   		obtaining products from different sources and packaging them with other products so they can be sold together to customers.
   		obtaining products from different manufacturers and selling them in smaller quantities to customers.
   		obtaining products from different sources in large quantities and selling them in smaller quantities to customers.
   		obtaining parts from different sources and manufacturing end products from these parts.

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QUESTION 5

1. Warehouses can provide additional services to manufacturers; packaging goods in different quantities, adding different-language instruction booklets, changing labels, or providing after-sale services, such as warranty work. Collectively, these activities are called:

   		Ancillary services
   		Customer-centered services
   		Value-added services
   		After-sale services

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QUESTION 6

1. The three decision levels to consider when locating a warehouse are:

   		The regional, municipal, and local levels.
   		The national, regional, and local levels.
   		The national, regional, and parcel levels.
   		The regional, municipal, and parcel levels.

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QUESTION 7

1. In which of the following types of warehouses does an exporter rent space "as needed," and therefore which type of warehouse would be only a variable cost?

   		Private warehouse.
   		Contract warehouse.
   		Public warehouse.
   		Common warehouse.

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QUESTION 8

1. Chronologically, what is the first activity that takes place in a warehouse?

   		Receiving
   		Storing
   		Picking
   		Packaging

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QUESTION 9

1. Which of the following racking alternatives does not exist?

   		Mobile racks
   		Wide-aisle low-bay racks
   		Gravity-fed racks.
   		Wide-bay racks

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QUESTION 10

1. Warehouse construction is constrained by a trade-off between:

   		cost of construction and cost of operation.
   		cost of land and costs of construction and operation.
   		cost of land and cost of capital.
   		cost of inventory and cost of storage.

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QUESTION 11

1. Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems use conveyor belts and very high-bay racks to store goods. Their accuracy and reliability is very high; however, they must use pallets that are:

   		in perfect condition
   		made of composite materials
   		identical in size
   		in good condition and uniform in size

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QUESTION 12

1. Amaxon.com's Kiva robots are part of a picking strategy called:

   		Picker to goods.
   		Racks to picker.
   		Goods to racks.
   		Goods to picker

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QUESTION 13

1. In a picker-to-goods strategy, the picker spends most of his/her time:

   		picking goods.
   		shipping goods.
   		traveling from one location to another.
   		packaging goods.

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QUESTION 14

1. What is the name of the practice that consists of requiring pickers to gather the items for several orders at once, but keep them separate in separate totes?

   		Pick to order
   		Batch picking
   		Cluster picking
   		Zone picking

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QUESTION 15

1. What is the picking technique that allows the picker to have both of his/her hands free while selecting goods?

   		Paper picking
   		Label picking
   		Sound picking
   		Voice picking

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Answer 1

1. Reduce the response time on a customer's order
2. All of the above.
3. Carrying safety stocks.
4. Obtaining products from different sources and packaging them with other products so they can be sold together to customers.

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