Supply Chain Management

Answer the below 10 questions

1. Explain the four ways that warehousing facilitates the regrouping function.

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of private warehousing?

3- What is the building-blocks concept? How is it applied to the handling of packaged goods?

4- The chapter describes approximately 10 functions that a protective package should accomplish. Does every package have to accomplish every function? Explain.

5- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the unit load.

6- Pick three modes of transportation, name the federal agency responsible for safety regulation for each of the modes you picked, and provide a safety-related issue for each mode.

7- Discuss advantages and disadvantages to private transportation.

8- How does the class rate system simplify with respect to product, weight, and distance?

9- Discuss the four factors used in determining a product's freight classification.

10- The bill of lading is the single most important document in transportation. Discuss some of the basic functions it performs.