Question 6
From a health and safety perspective, which of the following sets of parameters must be taken into account when considering manual material handling?
- Task, working environment, equipment, and individual capacity
- Task, load, layout, and equipment
- Layout, load, working environment, and individual capacity
- Task, load, working environment, and individual capacity
Question 7
Which of the following categories is a weakness of the rail systems?
- Safety records
- Inflexible infrastructures
- Effects of the weather
- Routes from city centers
Question 8
Which of the following statements represents the primary function of inventory?
- Make products available while minimizing total carrying cost
- Realize economies of scale while minimizing total carrying cost
- Reduce ordering cost while minimizing total carrying cost
- Buffer against delivery time while minimizing total carrying cost
Question 9
Which of the following factors would be considered of strategic importance to a firm's logistics function?
- A firm operates in a competitive oligopoly
- Total cost of production
- Production lead time
- Order cycle time
Question 10
Which of the following lean tools would a warehouse team use to document, analyze, and improve the flow of information and materials to customers?
- Lean six sigma
- Kaizen
- Value stream mapping
- Five S methodology