The Practice That Involves Unloading Products from Suppliers, Sorting Products

question 118

Multiple Choice

The practice that involves unloading products from suppliers, sorting products for individual stores, and quickly reloading products on trucks that will deliver the products to specific stores is referred to as

• A) just-in-time (JIT) delivery.
• B) intermodal distribution.
• C) immediate response system (IRS).
• D) piggy-backing.
• E) cross-docking.

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Definitions:

Distribution

The manner in which a statistical data or a population is spread out or arranged over a range of values.

Empirical Rules

Practical guidelines based on observed data which are used to interpret statistical distributions, notably the 68-95-99.7 (or three-sigma) rule for normal distributions.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, often used to quantify the spread of a probability distribution.

Observations

Observations refer to the act of watching or noticing something or the data collected during this process, usually as part of a study or experiment.