Assignment

Answer the following:

1. What are the main differences between storage warehouses and distribution centers? What is throughput and which one has highest throughput?

2. What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) role in warehouse safety? How would you prepare for an OSHA warehouse inspection?

3. What are the characteristics of a private warehouse and a public warehouse?

4. Why is transportation a key requirement to a logistics or supply chain management requirements?

5. How do containers reduce material handling time and costs? Please describe how containers can be used in multimodal or Intermodal.

Answer the questions in a MS Word document and submit.