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1. Receiving docks, shipping docks, and a staging area are parts of a warehouse layout that are considered______________.

necessary

fixed

flexible

cost centers

2. What is the name of the concept that observes that 80 percent of inventory costs are generated by 20 percent of the products?

Juran's Law

Deming's Law

Da Vinci's Law

Pareto's Law

3. Most warehouses' storage areas are organized:

using some form of alphabetical rule

using some form of organization based on the Dewey Decimal System

using some form of A-B-C rule

using streets and avenues like a city's grid.

4. Which storage option allows a warehouse to handles products that must be shipped on a first-in-first-out basis---the oldest items in the storage area must be shipped first---most easily?

High-bay narrow-aisle racks.

Low-bay wide-aisle racks.

Roller gravity-fed racks.

No racks; goods are stacked on the floor.

5. Properly screening and training warehouse employees improve a warehouse's ability to reduce which two primary security risks?

Pilferage and theft

Terrorism and theft.

Theft and damage to the goods.

Terrorism and pilferage.