True or False

______ 1. In the MercuryGate TMS, a shipping order (SO) represents the record of what a company has hired a carrier to move.

__________ 2. In the MercuryGate TMS, a route is the overall record of a move and can be made up of one or more shipping orders and execution loads that are related to the overall move.

__________ 3. In the MercuryGate TMS, portlets are windows or screens that users can create to show various aspects of the TMS.

__________ 4. In the Datex WMS, if you were setting up a warehouse, you would use the settings module.

__________ 5. The only difference between areas and zones in the Datex WMS is that areas can be assigned temperature categories while zones cannot. __________ 6. In the Datex WMS, the only location in a warehouse that does not need to have inventory assigned to it are dock doors.

__________ 7. If you think of locations in the Datex WMS as files in a computer, you can think of the information in those files as the materials kept within the locations.

__________ 8. The expression data rich, but information poor means that a firm has too much data and they are uncertain as to how to utilize it quickly and effectively to make business decisions

. __________ 9. The dollar value of reverse logistics activities related to packaging far exceeds that of product returns.

__________ 10. A common practice of firms is to use private warehousing for storing most of their inventory and to use public warehousing temporarily when there is not enough space in the private warehouse.

__________ 11. Private warehousing is the best choice when there are changes in market size, location or customer preferences. _

_________ 12. The key difference between make-to-stock (MTS) and make-to-order (MTO) is that MTO is triggered by a customer order.

__________ 13. In lean production, products are manufactured in batches, while in traditional manufacturing the production process runs as much as possible in a constant flow.

__________ 14. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) includes all core processes needed to run a company and provides visibility, analytics, and efficiency across every aspect of the business.

__________ 15. From an organizations perspective, a positive cash-to-cash cycle would be a good thing, while a negative cash-to-cash cycle would not be good.

__________ 16. For the majority of customers, time-in-transit is a much more important service attribute than consistency-of-service.

__________ 17. Economic value-added (EVA) is an estimate of a firms profit, or simply, the cost of capital has to have a greater benefit than invested capital.

__________ 18. The objective of a perfect order approach is to attempt to eliminate all mistakes or errors except for the very few that occur from time to time.

__________ 19. Order fill rate is calculated by taking the total orders shipped and dividing that number by total orders, resulting in a percentage that could reach 100 percent if every order was always shipped correctly.

__________ 20. A benefit of using Balanced Scorecards is that they describe the cause-and-effect relationship of the strategic objectives.