Warehouse Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. Also known as ASN & is a Manhattan term for a document to receive/validate against
  2. 3. Provider, May take over all receiving, storage, value-added, shipping, and transportation responsibilities for a client and conduct them in the 3PL's warehouse using the 3PL's equipment and employees, or may manage one or all of these functions in the client's facility using the client's equipment, or any combination of the above.
  3. 6. Refers to the sourcing, transport, expediting, storage, and receiving of goods coming into a business
  4. 8. Counts Describes method used in cycle counting and physical inventories where you provide your counters with item number and location but no quantity information
  5. 9. Storage bin location in the Manhattan WMS that may contain one or more license-plated cases.
  6. 10. Activity of processing customer shipments
  7. 13. Covers activities related to the returned product, returned pallets and containers, returned materials for disposal or recycling.
  8. 15. Placing items into the proper box, along with the appropriate packing materials and documentation before the package is labeled and shipped to the end customer.
  9. 16. Systematic counting of a portion of the total stock on a certain day, so all stock can be counted without disruption to the warehouse
  10. 18. Any passageway within a storage area
  11. 20. Portable platform designed to allow a forklift or pallet jack to lift, move, and store various loads.
  12. 22. Printedon the item packaging used to facilitate receiving and inventory transactions.
  13. 24. Also known as Stock Keeping Unit, & is a product or service identification number assigned to a unique item by a retailer.
  14. 27. Wireless, Handheld device that uses a radio frequency wireless network to communicate with a WMS in order to transfer information throughout the network
  15. 30. Any quantifiable item that you can handle, buy, sell, store, consume, produce, or track can be considered inventory
  16. 31. Used to track inventory from inbound through to allocation.
  17. 32. Involves checking of the quality, quantity, and condition of the incoming goods followed by their proper storage
Down
  1. 1. Used to track outbound cartons.
  2. 4. Physical space where an item is stored. Examples would include a parts bin on a shelf, a pallet location in pallet rack, or a storage lane where multiple pallets of an item are stacked on the floor.
  3. 5. Movement of inventory from upstream -- or reserve -- product storage locations to downstream -- or primary – storage, picking, and shipment locations.
  4. 7. Computer software designed specifically for managing the movement and storage of materials throughout the warehouse.
  5. 11. A unique identifier assigned incrementally or sequentially to an item
  6. 12. Refers to warehousing, packaging and transporting of goods going out of the business
  7. 14. Fancy term for Returns
  8. 17. Merchandise that is received at the warehouse or DC is not put away but prepared for shipment to retail stores.
  9. 19. Order picking method where a warehouse is divided into several pick zones, order pickers are assigned to a specific zone and only pick the items in that zone, orders are moved from one zone to the next (usually on conveyor systems) as they are picked.
  10. 21. Type of Inbound receipt – returns, vendor, etc.
  11. 22. A number representing each unique product stocked in the facility
  12. 23. The process of moving material from the dock and transporting it to a warehouse's storage, replenishment, or pick area
  13. 25. Action of pulling the relevant stock items from storage areas to complete a customer order.
  14. 26. An Inbound delivery that the client determines is a priority and needs to be unloaded and received in front of other drop or live unloads.)
  15. 28. European Article Number The European version of UPC
  16. 29. A list of stock items to be picked to fill an order