106 Matching questions

1. Transportation Challenges
2. Rail Percent
3. The Grid Technique Limitations
4. Distribution KPIs
5. impractical in the short run
6. Reliability disadvantage:
7. Support Functions
8. Batching Economies Sources
9. The Role of Distribution in SCM
10. Trucking Percent
11. Sortation
12. Distribution Requirements Planning
13. Transit time disadvantage
14. Cost advantage:
15. Water Percent
16. Inventory Risk Cost
17. Determining the Cost of In-Transit Inventories
18. Capability Requirements
19. Railroads
20. Current Trends Governing Site
21. B-Items
22. KPI
23. value-added capabilities of a WMS
24. Inventory
25. push approach
26. Pipeline
27. In-Transit
28. Air Percent
29. TMS
30. Ordering Cost or Setup Cost
31. Transportation facilitates which utilities
32. Commercial Zone
33. Inventory Carrying Costs
34. Cross Docking
35. VMI
36. In-Transit Inventory Carrying Cost
37. Expected Stockout Cost
38. Facility Considerations
39. Materials requirement Planning
40. Uncertainty
41. independent demand
42. DRP
43. Storage Space Cost
44. Distribution Facility Functionality
    Primary Functions:
45. Accessibility advantage:
46. Order Cost
47. MRP system elements
48. Seasonal Stocks
49. Anticipatory Stocks
50. Order accuracy and order completeness
51. C-Items
52. Capital Cost
53. The Grid Technique Advantages
54. Modeling Approaches
55. Just-in-Time Approach Elements
56. Vendor-Managed Inventory
57. Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
58. Allocation
59. Accessibility disadvantage:
60. Inventory v GDP
61. Pareto's law
62. Perfect order index (POI)
63. Pipe Percent
64. B/L
65. Transportation Management Systems Involve
66. Assortment
67. Work-in-Progress
68. Transit time advantage:
69. factors driving design change
70. Distribution cost tradeoffs with other functional areas
71. Distribution Tradeoffs
72. Internal Measures
73. Transit Privilege
74. Freight bill
75. The Bill of Landing does what?
76. Motor
77. pull approach
78. Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ)
79. Potential Supply Chain Modeling Pitfalls to Avoid
80. Modes of Transportation
81. Simulation Models
82. ABC Analysis
83. Short run planning
84. Accumulation
85. Shifting Locations of Customer and/or Supply Markets
86. Transportation
87. Heuristic Models
88. Air Carriers
89. Safety disadvantage:
90. Inventory Service Cost
91. Two options for product flow
92. Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
93. Areas where logistics interfaces:
94. Department responsible for transportation
95. MRP
96. Distribution Execution
97. BOM
98. Distribution Challenges
99. MPS
100. Freight claims form
101. Hurdle Rate
102. A-Items
103. Optimization Models
104. ISF
105. Setup Costs
106. dependent demand

1. a 4.6%
2. b carrier's invoice for carrier charges
3. c Transportation Management Systems
4. d software control system that improves product movement and storage operations
5. e cost efficiency
   inventory accuracy
   order fill rates
   capacity utilization
6. f uses inventory replenishment techniques in anticipation of demand to move products.
7. g relies on customer orders to move product through a logistics system
8. h Simplicity and its ability to provide a starting point for location analysis.
   Provides a starting point for making a location decision.
9. i Change in Corporate Ownership
   Cost Pressures
   Competitive Capabilities
   Corporate Organizational Change
10. j a geographic area into which importers can enter a product and hold it without paying duties—and only paying duties or customs when is it shipped into U.S. customs territory.
11. k Bill of Materials
12. l Product characteristics must drive the design of the distribution process such as product value, durability, temperature sensitivity, obsolescence, volume, and other factors
13. m generate performance reports
    support paperless processes
    enable integration of materials handling equipment
    picking systems
    sorting systems
    leverage wireless communication
14. n Balancing supply and demand.
    
    Protecting against uncertainty.
    
    Allowing quantity purchase discounts.
    
    Supporting production requirements.
    
    Promoting transportation economies.
15. o 1.2%
16. p likely products together. Bread and Jelly
17. q Air and motor carriage
18. r when it is directly related, or derives from, the demand for another inventory item or product
19. s the process of designing a model of a real system and conducting experiments with this model for the purpose either of understanding the behavior of the system or of evaluating various strategies within the limits imposed by a criterion or set of criteria for the operation of the system
20. t Cost of placing order which may have both fixed and variable components
21. u bill of lading
22. v originates the shipment
    provides all the information the carrier needs
    stipulates the contract terms, including carrier's liability for loss and damage 
    acts as a receipt for the goods the shipper tenders to the carrier
    in some cases, shows certificate of title to the goods
23. w Rail and water
24. x Master production schedule (MPS)
    Bill of materials file (BOM)
    Inventory status file (ISF)
    MRP program
    Outputs and reports
25. y Materials requirement Planning
26. z Can occur in the supply of raw materials, in the demand for finished product, or in both. There is a need to know the proper inventory level to have. Can impact transportation.
27. aa High fixed versus low variable.
    Product moves through it in high volume
28. ab 4.7%
29. ac Costs incurred by inventory at rest and waiting to be used.
30. ad specific blanket area, the transportation definition of a particular city or town.
31. ae Precise mathematical procedures that are guaranteed to find the "best" solution
32. af involves the physical movement of goods between origin and destination points.
    The transportation system links geographically separated partners and facilities in a company's supply chain.
33. ag Master Production Schedule
34. ah key performance indicators
35. ai Accumulation
    
    Sortation
    
    Allocation
    
    Assortment
36. aj Finance
    Marketing
    Manufacturing
37. ak Optimizing
    
    Heuristic
    
    Simulation
38. al Short-term horizon
    Too little or too much detail
    Thinking in two dimensions
    Using published costs
    Inaccurate or incomplete costs
    Use of erroneous analytical techniques
    Lack of appropriate robustness analysis
39. am an asset on the balance sheet and a variable expense on the income statement.
40. an Air, rail, and water
41. ao Product Handling Functions
    
    Support Functions
    
    Distribution Metrics
    
    Customer Facing Measures
    
    Internal Measures
42. ap a firm's logistics/supply chain network and the locations of its key facilities are fixed.
43. aq permits the shipper to stop a shipment in transit and to perform some function that physically changes the product's characteristic.
44. ar Routing and scheduling
    Load planning
    Load tendering
    Status tracking
    Appointment scheduling
45. as determine the size of each operation within the network
46. at Reflects the direct debt service cost of having capital tied up in inventory.
47. au Procurement, Production, Transportation
48. av Positioning of inventories located at "market-facing" logistics facilities 
    Greater use of "customer direct" delivery 
    "Cross-docking"
    Due diligence for location and site selection
    Greater use of third-party-logistics services
49. aw Water carriers and rail carriers
50. ax Motor carriage
51. ay are able to accommodate broad problem definitions, but they do not provide an optimum solution.
    
    help to reduce a problem to a manageable size and search automatically through various alternatives in an attempt to find a better solution.
52. az Vendor-Managed Inventory
53. ba Labor availability
    
    Demand variation
    
    Increasing customer requirements
54. bb Zero Inventories
    Short, consistent lead times
    small, frequent replenishment quantities
    high quality, or zero deficits
55. bc recoup monetary losses
56. bd High variable and low fixed cost
57. be includes insurance and taxes
58. bf Inventory control
    Safety, maintenance, and sanitation 
    Security
    Performance analysis
    Information technology
59. bg High fixed, low variable
60. bh Time, Place
61. bi 6.7%
62. bj Least Important
63. bk The supplier and its customer agree on which products are to be managed using in the customer's distribution centers.
    Also called "pull" data
64. bl Owner of product while it is in transit will incur resulting carrying costs.
65. bm Cost of distribution centers and inventory vs. cost of transportation
    
    Cost of additional facilities vs. level of customer service
    
    Space vs. equipment
    
    Equipment vs. people
    
    People vs. space
66. bn 80%
67. bo Widely Used, Low fixed cost, high variable
68. bp When an organization anticipates that an unusual event might occur that will negatively impact its source of supply.
69. bq Truck
    Rail
    Air
    Water
    Pipeline
    Intermodal transportation
70. br Focus on available inventory.
71. bs is to more accurately forecast demand and to explode that information back to develop production schedules
72. bt Distribution Requirements Planning
73. bu supplying materials and component parts whose demand depends on the demand for a specific end product
74. bv Inventory Status File
75. bw U.S. population shifts
    
    Service/cost requirements of JIT manufacturing 
    
    European Union
    
    Continuing searches for lower-cost manufacturing
    growing economic importance of China and the
    Asia-Pacific
    sourcing of raw materials from offshore suppliers
76. bx Producing and acquiring goods.
77. by refers to the expense of placing an order for additional inventory, not including product cost
78. bz GDP increased at a higher rate than inventory costs. It created higher revenues with less assets.
79. ca Rail, water, and pipeline
80. cb Goods flow from receiving to shipping with minimal interim sorting
81. cc the exact products and quantities that they ordered
82. cd Lesser Importance
83. ce Distribution cost efficiency
    Aggregate cost efficiency
    Asset utilization 
    Resource productivity
    Resource efficiency
84. cf delivered to the right place
    at the right time
    in defect-free condition
    with the correct documentation, pricing, and invoicing
85. cg Direct shipment of goods
    
    Movement of goods through distribution facilities to customers
86. ch Assigns inventory items to one of three groups according to the relative impact or value of the items
87. ci reflects the possibility that inventory value might decline for reasons beyond firm's control
88. cj when such demand is unrelated to the demand for other items
89. ck Back order, which has variable costs. Loss of sales. Loss of customers
90. cl Includes handling costs associated with moving products into and out of inventory, as well as such costs as rent, heat, and light
91. cm many situations were dominated by a relatively few vital elements.
92. cn Most important
93. co Transportation costs
    Cost of lost sales
    Warehousing costs
    Inventory costs
94. cp Logistics
    Procurement
    Marketing
95. cq Minimum rate of return on new investments.
96. cr Arises in Demand and obtaining materials from suppliers.
97. cs Site availability, leases, contracts, and investments make changing facility locations
98. ct varies greatly
99. cu expenses incurred each time an organization modifies a production or assembly line to produce a different item for inventory
100. cv time associated with transportation and the inventory costs that are associated with it.
101. cw Opportunity Cost. Cost of capital tied up in inventory.
102. cx associated with manufacturing; how long it takes to get from raw materials to finished goods, and the costs associated.
103. cy A static approach, and the solution is optimum for only one point in time.
     The technique assumes linear transportation rates, whereas actual transportation rates increase with distance but less than proportionally.
     The technique does not consider the topographic conditions.
104. cz -Supply chain complexity
     -Competing goals among supply chain partners
     -Changing customer requirements
     -Limited information availability
     -Synchronizing transportation
     -Capacity constraints
     -Rising transportation rates
     -Governmental requirements
     -Regulation
105. da Capital Cost = Carry Inventory
     Storage space cost is not relevant
     Insurance requires special analysis
     Obsolescence is not as important
106. db Like product together.