Exam 7: Materials Management and Handling in the Supply Chain

In materials handling, the transportation and shipping activities are typically performed in combination with storage, order picking, and sorting. The three most often used pieces of equipment are:

Small firms are unable to implement any automated materials handling systems because of their cost.

Which company introduced a packaging scorecard and the "Sustainable Packaging Playbook" for its suppliers in an effort to reduce packaging waste?

Major disadvantage of conveyors includes inaccurate order fulfillment, poor reliability and lack of flexibility once they are installed.

Car-in-lane materials handling equipment is best used where there are small quantities of a large number of SKUs.

Pallets are used to move and stores products and can be made from a variety of materials. The majority of pallets are made from:

There are two primary goals associated with the handling and management of materials by individual firms or by multiple firms in the supply chain: minimize cost; and optimize customer service.

Which of the following materials handling events occurred first (i.e., earliest) in the historical development of materials handling management?

An automatic guided vehicle system (AGVS) requires a driver (i.e., it is not driverless) as it moves through a facility over defined paths.

The Uniform Product Code (UPC) contains 12 machine readable digits that identify __________ and __________.

Which of the following technologies does not provide real-time location data?

It has been estimated that __________ activities represent between 50 and 75 percent of warehouse operating costs.

Many factors govern good package design. For a computer manufacturer, which of the following package design factors would be most important?

Which of the following statements about voice technology is FALSE?

With respect to information transfer, the movement and storage functions require computerization at the electronic level, which requires computer-to-computer interface and involves data transmission. At the electronic level, machines and equipment are utilized.

Voice technology is increasing in its implementation because it frees the picker's hands and eyes. However, it is limited in that the present level of technology only involves the use of the English language.

Electric reach and deep reach forklift trucks, order-selector trucks, sideloaders, and turret trucks would be examples of which class of forklift trucks?

RFID tags can be either active or passive. Passive tags have a power source and can transmit signals.

Which of the following types of automated equipment would likely be utilized in situations where there is very high storage density of products and computers control the equipment?

The storage of odd-shaped or crushable parts would require the use of which type of storage equipment?