BL5106 – WAREHOUSING MANAGEMENT

1. A warehouse mainly provides spaces for ____ of goods.

A. Consolidation
B. Storage
C. Inventory
D. Assortment

They also do assortment, inventory management, consolidating. But mainly provides a

space for storage of goods.

2. Warehousing management refers to providing ____.

A. Storage and assortment facilities

B. Spaces for many types of goods
C. And managing storage facilities
D. Storage and related services

The main thing is that they do everything. Storage is the main thing. Assorting and sorting is
different. Accumulating, inventory management. So these are related services. Even cross
docking.

3. Which of the following usually does not include in warehousing management?

A. Assortment and sortation

B. Cross docking
C. Picking and packaging
D. After sales servicing

They do everything but after sales services they are still not doing. However, may be in the
future.

4. Which of the following can be substitute for warehousing?

A. Inventory
B. Transportation
C. Online sales
D. Fulfilment centre

Warehousing can house inventory. It can provide online sales services and act as fulfilment
centre.
 5. Throughput means ____.

A. The amount of unitized cargo of goods passing through a system

B. The amount of products that are stored per day in a warehouse
C. The quantity of products that thrown outside of a system
D. The balance between input and output of a system

Some goods are coming, some goods are leaving. We consider in unit volume, tonnes,
containers, cargoes, pallets. In total.

6. An inventory can contain a warehouse.

A. True
B. False

A warehouse can house/accommodate an inventory. Inventory is related to asset.

7. Value of storage comes first in the concept of warehousing

A. True
B. False

The inventory - asset value is actually not the main thing. Of course the value is there. But
the main thing is space utilization/optimization and related services.

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

customers.

A. Accumulating
B. Sorting out
C. Allocating
D. Assorting

9. _____ refers to separating products into grade and qualities desired by different
target markets.

A. Assorting
B. Allocating
C. Sorting out
D. Accumulating

10. _______ involves bringing together similar stocks from different sources.

A. Bulk-breaking
B. Accumulating
C. Assorting
D. Sorting out
 11. _____ and _____ refer to adjustments associated with the quantity of product.

A. Allocating; assorting
B. Sorting out; accumulating
C. Accumulating; allocating
D. Sorting out; assorting

Allocating – in warehousing management we use several wards for it. Used for different
purposes. Different places, sources, we put it away (put away) that this is going out. From
location and from there, sorting out and putting in transportation.

12. Which of the following has been referred to as “transportation at zero miles per
hour”?
A. In-house materials handling
B. Inventory management without transportation
C. Cross-docking
D. Warehousing

Substitution of warehousing is transportation. So it’s a different way to say.

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

A. Product storage; throughput

B. Product storage; usage of available storage space
C. Rapid movement of product; throughput
D. Rapid movement of product; usage of available storage space

Warehouse can also do distribution centre job. Its an umbrella/overarching management.

So it can do many things. But distribution centre separately, they also focus rapid movement
of product. And what is coming or moving.

14. In other words, throughput refers to ____.

A. Storage capacity of a warehousing facility

B. Inventory turnover in a one-month period
C. Volume of the product
D. Amount of product entering and leaving a facility in a given time period
 15. _____ are focused on e-commerce orders.

A. Warehouses
B. Fulfillment centres
C. Distribution centers
D. Cross-dock facilities

E-fulfillment. Focused on e-commerce orders. Trend in the warehousing also. Because of

online purchase/sales. So trends is increasing. Even a large portion of warehouse can be
converted to fulfillment centres.

16. _____ refers to a process of receiving product and shipping it out the same day or
overnight without putting it in storage.

A. Just-in time
B. Accumulation
C. Cross-docking
D. Agglomeration

A process of receiving the product at one end at a dock and put in another truck, and
shipping it out at another end. No requirement of storage. It is done overnight.
Warehousing velocity increases with this. Sometimes sorting out takes place here. Very
dynamic, not only goods but also some goods from warehouse mixed with this.

17. Which of the following is not a possible design shape for a cross-dock facility?

A. I
B. U
C. H
D. X

There should be a good design for cross docking, and even warehousing. The orientation of
interiors, racks and shelves. For cross, the designing X is not good or possible because at the
intersection, you need some type of underflow or overflow. It’s not efficient or effective.

18. What are the two major sources of labor in logistics?

A. Warehousing and materials handling

B. Order management and materials handling
C. Transportation and warehousing
D. Packaging and transportation

You need loading, unloading, vehicle driver. For transportation. For warehousing you need
picking, packing, sorting, many things. But at the same time, we need technologies too. We
need to balance it with labour.
 19. What is considered to be the biggest drawback to public warehousing?

A. High fixed cost to the user

B. Lack of locational flexibility
C. Lack of safety regulation
D. Lack of control by the user

Public means government is providing to promote businesses, and employment. There

are some rules and regulations. You have to pay the product to keep there. There is no
sufficient control. You have to obey the rules.

20. Which of the following statement about private warehousing is false?

A. It generates high fixed costs for the user

B. It gives users a great deal of control
C. It is feasible when demand patterns are irregular
D. It may reduce an organization’s flexibility

For the private warehousing, are the other threes. They are expensive, they have more
control since its private and they can reduce organization’s flexibility in a sense that the
space they are using there, if you keep a private warehouse, you use money. The
establishment is high. So this space could be used for other things. But your money
allocated, space, employ of staffs, this private warehousing is reducing your flexibility of
business.

If business patterns are irregular, business may not maintain private warehousing.

21. Warehousing and ____ are substitutes are for each other.

A. Transportation
B. Packaging
C. Materials handling
D. Inventory Management

22. Warehouse emphasize _____ and their primary purpose is to maximize ______.

A. Rapid movement of product; usage of available storage space

B. Product storage; usage of available storage space
C. Rapid movement of product; throughput
D. Product storage; throughput

23. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a public warehousing?

A. Requires no capital investment from user

B. Users have a fairly exact determination of their warehousing costs
C. Good for companies dealing with large volumes of inventory
D. Lack of control by user
 24. One of the best pieces of advice with respect to the design of warehousing facilities
is to _____.

A. Automate whenever possible

B. Build up rather than out
C. Avoid consultants
D. Use common sense

25. Trade-offs must be made among space, labor and ___ with respect to warehousing
design.

A. Cost
B. Mechanization
C. Construction materials
D. Speed

26. Which of the following is not a trade-off in warehousing design?

A. Two-dock versus single-dock layout

B. Order picking versus order taking functions
C. Build up versus build out
D. Degree of warehouse automation

Ordering picking vs. order taking is two process. Its external. Its not internal. The other three
are areas of trade-offs.

Will it be two dock or one layer

Up or size? Vertical or horizontal? For build up vs. build out
Degree of warehouse automation. How much you employ labour and how much machine?

27. What is the most forequesnt source of injuries among warehousing personnel

A. Heart attacks
B. Leg wounds from forklifts
C. Assault by other warehousing personnel
D. Back and shoulder injuries

28. Warehousing is needed because patterns of production and consumption may not
coincide.

A. True
B. False

There is a mismatch between these those. Therefore we need to coincide.

 29. One drawback of cross-docking is that it increases the amount of necessary
warehousing space.

A. True
B. False

The main thing is that it is not using space or storage. We are just preparing the transit to
cargo.

30. Private warehousing tends to be feasible when demand patterns are relatively
stable.

A. True
B. False

31. Product density refers to a product’s _____.

A. Volume
B. Weight per volume
C. Weight
D. Number of products (items) per volume

Similar to definition of density.

32. Which of the following is false?

A. Package labelling is usually done at the end of the assembly line

B. Labelling regulations may differ from country to country
C. Pictures are preferable to words for labelling a product
D. Labelling requirements within a particular country can vary

33. The basic unit in loading is a ____.

A. Box
B. Pallet
C. Crate or tote
D. Container

Pallets are cartons

34. _____ refers to the short-distance movement that usually takes place within the
confines of a building such as a plant

A. Physical distribution
B. Warehousing
C. Materials management
D. Materials handling

35. _____ refers to the interaction between workers and workplace conditions.

A. Warehouse layouts
B. Human resource management
C. Labor relations
D. Ergonomics