DICTIONARY

SHOPPING, COMEX,
WAREHOUSE AND
DISTRIBUTION Y LEAN
LOGISTIC

Definitions of warehouse and

distribution
Benchmarking: methodology that promotes the incorporation in
companies of practices and successful methods, no matter where
are. Incites to be creative through the copy of strategy, products and
processes applied in other areas, not necessarily similar to the of the
company that them implanted.

Boarding: specified amount of goods carried from a consignor to a

shipper, through one or more means of transport, with one or more
points of scale or final destinations, under the conditions laid down in
a contract.
Freight: payment that it is paid to a carrier to use their units, whether
land, sea, river or air.
Layout: imaginary grid divided into spaces or fields page which is
designed to facilitate the distribution of elements such as text or
graphics in it.

Definitions of warehouse and distribution

Concept of store-is the place to deposit goods in suitable
conditions, such as health, infrastructure and equipment
allowing to preserve them until its sale.

Distribution physical of warehouse; You must have the

following areas:

Goods reception area; verification and compliance of goods.

Storage area; It covers areas of shelves and courtyards, there

are several types of storage:
For stock; They are available to any user, the merchandise must
be located and codified.

Definitions of warehouse and

distribution
Product code: makes possible any merchandise
throughout the entire chain of production, distribution
and marketing automated identification and control. Can
be represented by means of a code of bars.
Distribution channel: road or path that follow the
products or services when they move from the
manufacturer to the consumer.

Center of distribution (CD): is a warehouse for products

completed. Base of operations for storage and
processing of inventory destined to optimize the
distribution under a philosophy of integrated supply
chain management.

Definitions of warehouse and distribution

For custody; Are internal goods, goods by shopping in form
temporary. They do not form part of the inventory of goods.

Area of merchandise second use; Is internal temporarily goods

given of low, does not form part of the inventory available.

Area of picking; Place where orders are prepared.

Area of verification and packing; Place where are verified and

Pack orders for customers, after the picking.

Zone of clearance of goods; Place where goods is delivered to

carriers for services to customers. Location; Physical location of
a merchandise within a warehouse.

Definitions of warehouse and distribution

Picking: take inventory the number of SKUS, requested for

the preparation of one or more orders. Pick (verb English) is
picking, selecting, collecting and harvesting. It is a term of
general application in English but with a wide international
dissemination in the environment of logistics and
transportation.

Stock Keeping Unit (SKU): they are the units of managed

inventory in a base of operations or plant. It is a numbering
system that makes a product or item differed from others.

Outsourcing: is the delegation of tasks and processes of

business of a company to another external.

Definitions of warehouse and

distribution
Reception; Download, unpacking, checking quantitative
and qualitative of goods.

Storage; Stevedoring, location, labelling, cataloguing and

maintenance.
Office; Delivery of goods to the carrier in quantities
appropriate orders or transfers in a timely and in optimal
conditions.
Merchandise; Goods with security risk by their
characteristics, origin and/or marketing system which
involved.

Definitions of warehouse and distribution

Release (availability Decision); It means a merchandise

becomes free to be transferred without restriction to a store
or market. When not is possible the release, the
merchandise changes of State to "locked", what means that
not can be used for the sale and must be returned to the
supplier or destroy.
Packing list; Import document where words so clear dates of
production, batch, and palettes with their respective
quantities that are delivering in stores.

Order of purchase; Document authorizing the purchase /

delivery of a goods from a supplier for delivery at one point.
Warehouse operator; Person responsible for operating the
warehouse process. Can have roles different, picking and
verification / packing.

Main inventory transactions

Shopping; Revenue per purchase.

Consumption; Warehouse clearance of goods to users

(consumption of store)
Sales; For sale to customers.
Transfer between warehouses; Income and departures for
transfers from different locations.
Change of locations; This is done to locate a single item
in a same shelf or warehouse.
Transaction type for sale; Sale or return of third parties,
including transporters, workers in general, etc.

Main inventory transactions

Kardex; It controls the movement of income and
valued outputs of goods in chronological order.
Book of merchandise; Document or virtual whereby
goods are requested. Entry of goods; Entry of
merchandise into the store.

Quality Protocol; A document accompanying goods

for deliveries of providers explicitly indicating
characteristics of it bought, in some cases compared
to the specification of the original purchase.
Traceability; It is a set of measures, actions and
procedures that allow to register and identify each
merchandise from its origin to its final destination.

TQM - Total Quality Management, Total

quality management is a process of
continuous improvement of the quality by
better knowledge and control of the entire
system. In such a way that the product
received by consumers is constantly in
proper conditions for their use.
Tackt - is a German meaning the word coup.
Tackt time is matching the shift from
production to customer demand. Adherence
to Tackt time will ensure customer
satisfaction with 100% on-time delivery.

Lean Thinking - It is a company policy

which consists of eliminating the activities
of the company, everything that does not
bring added value to the product that the
customer wants.
Lean Enterprise - Are of a particular interest
of managers and technical staff involved in
the design and continuous improvement of
the process of delivery of products and/or
services.
Empowerment - Is a strategic process that
seeks a relationship of partners between the
Organization and its people, increase the
trust responsibility authority and
commitment to better serve the customer.

DBR - (Drum, Buffer, Rope) of Goldratt is an

application of the theory of constraints
applied to the production area. Consists of
five steps: identify the bottleneck. Decide
how to exploit the bottleneck.
Subordinating everything to the earlier
decision. Raise the neck of bottle. If you
have removed is the neck of bottle return to
step.
DBR - (Drum, Buffer, Rope) of Goldratt is an
application of the theory of constraints
applied to the production area. Consists of
five steps: identify the bottleneck. Decide
how to exploit the bottleneck. Subordinating
everything to the earlier decision. Raise the
neck of bottle. If you have removed is the
neck of bottle return to step.

MRP - Material Requeriment Plan,

materials requirements planning systems
integrate production and purchasing
activities. Programan procurement to
suppliers according to the scheduled
production. The MRP is a planning system
of production and stock management that
answers the questions: what? How
much? and when?, is should manufacture
and/or supply. The MRP aims to provide a
more effective, sensitive and disciplined
approach to determine the requirements
of the company materials.

ZQC - Zero Quality Control, there will

be No defects if there is proper
feedback (inspection) to do so must
use inspections in the source, auto checks and successive checks and
inspection techniques.