Amazon Terms
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- Switcharoo
- Shipment that contains and item and P-slip that do not match.
- Virtual Location
- Where the system "thinks" an item is placed in the FC
- Bintool
- Tool used to re-assign ownership of an item
- Goldfish
- Items graded to resale at cheaper prices
- Pick Mod
- Large amount of prime bins in the fc
- ASIN
- AMAZON STANDARD ITEM NUMBER
- Cubiscan
- Machine that weighs and measures inventory items
- IRDR
- Inventory Record Defect Rate
- Problem Solver
- Associate who resolves problems with inventory or shipments
- Problem Receive
- Items that have been incorrectly shipped to us
- Rebin
- Station where orders are sorted and matched to P-slips
- P-slip
- Invoive included in every customer shipment leaving FC
- Prime Bin
- Location used in all FC's for picking and stowing product
- Sweeper
- Associate who problem solves mis-received or mis-stowed items during rambo process
- SOP
- A document used by trainers to teach the best known practice of a procedure step by step
- SLAM
-
Scan Label Apply Manifest
(automated tool in outbound) - Cycle Time
- Total process time required for a specific activity
- Non-Con
- Items that are to large and heavy to process through normal conveyor systems
- Drop Shipper
- Third party contracted distribution center who ships orders directly to our customers
- Batch
- Grouping of customer shipments for picking and packing
- Full Case
- Conveyable but n-n-sortable items that can ship in its own case or packed in separate carton
- CTQ
-
Critical To Quality
(staps found in all SOP's_ - Shipment Method
- Shipment companies (Ups;DHL;second;next_
- SKU
- Stock Keeping Unit
- Throughput
- Output per unit of time or cycle time
- Pick Short
- Virtual location of items that are found to be missing from their locations
- False Pick Shorts
- Items that are shorted from their virtual/physical location which are actually correctly in the location
- Random Stow
- A manner of attaching items in bins to be later picked by RF Pick process
- UPC
- Universal Product Code is a code manufacturese pay to obtain to identify product
- Inbound
- Process of bringing product into the FC
- Outbound
- Process of shipping orders out of the FC
- Pallet Flow
- A type of Prime Bin Location usually holds 2 pallets of freight
- FUD
- Inventory for customer owned orders that are not in a pickable location
- FIFO
- First In First Out: process to work in order of age of oldest to newest
- EXSD
- Expected Ship Date:Process of which outbound orders are processed by age of oldest to newest ship times
- Hazmat
- Hazardous material-Anything labeled by the Dept. of Transportation as a risk to handlers
- Adjust Receive
- Using bin tool to delete an item from inventory;receiving it again when items were incorrectly received
- Advantage
- Program which allows individuals to sell BMVD through AMAZON.com
- Dunnage
- Air Pillows used to pad items in shipping boxes to prevent damage
- RECEIVE STAMP(ARS)
- Delivery paperwork is stamped with ARS prior to unloading product
- Baker and Taylor (BTE)
- Distributor of BMVD withtheir own FC's. Thay feed us electronic catalog data
- Barcode
- A picture representation of any kind of information(stripes)
- Giftwrap
- Outbound dept. which wraps customer orders per their request
- Bigs
- Orders too large to send throug ARPACK and do not fit in a regular box
- Bill of Lading
- Document giving information about the shipment such as PO number,name of vendor
- Binrep
- Tool used to give information on an item by ASIN # or order ID
- EAN
- European Article Number works like upc's but three of the numbers represent the country the product was registered in
- Boosin (BOO)
- a term meaning to apply asin stickers to product(Used on Bargain books and ghost items)
- Bundle
- Customer ordered items on a footprint and shrink wrapped
- Footprint
- A piece of cardboard used to place items on traveling through the ARPAC machine for wrapping
- Bundler
- Machine that shrink wraps items for shipping (aka ARPAC)
- CRAP
- Product's AMAZON sells that do not have a positive contribution to profits
- Cleanup
- Tool used to cancel or re-pick shipments
- Collating
- Station where paper pick batches are produced
- Customer
- Anyone who receives goods or services
- Empty PO
- A Purchase Order that does not have any items on it
- FC Transfer
- Process where orders?product are transferred internally
- HRV
- High Risk Valuables: items handled usuing secure processes
- Hot Batch
- Generated at single-item packing stations to replace missing items in shipments from previous batches
- Hot Pick
- These are multi-item missings from previous batches generated to be re-picked
- IDT
- Web based tool used to log vendor defects
-
Inbound
shipment Delivery (ISD) - Id used to represent one truck load og goods and goods received to the ISD in place of individual PO'S
- Indirect Labor
- Labor for a non-value added task
- ISBN
- Internation Standard Book Number a 10 digit # used in the US tells language,country of origin,publisher and edition by the numbers
- Inventory
- Iems in a pickable location assigned to an order
- IRA
- Inventrory Record Accuracy: a count indicating if items in system match the physical items in FC in quantity and location
- E-Stop
- A Red Button or Cord attached to machinery to stop in in the event of an emergency
- Kiosk
- Terminal used for labor tracking
- Levimatic
- Machine processing single items into form fitting boxes for shipment
- License Plate
- Label used in processing shipments through SLAM that is virtually tied to the order
- Missing
- Items in Fc that are not in their virtual location
- Damaged
- Items in the FC that do not meet Amazon requirements for quality
- MUDA
- Any activity that consumes resources with no value (being off task)
- No Dunnage Box
- Boxes that do not require "air pillows" to protect product from shipping damage
- PPE
- Personal Protective Equipment(safety goggles,hard hats, harness,kavlar glove)
- Photo Eye
- Tool with laser lined reflector and triggered by interuption of a beam
- PIT
- Powered Industrial Equipment used to move product in the FC
- Purchase Order
- PO means of which we receive product into FC from specific vendors
- Put Away Staging Area
- Area near receive dock where product waits for a reach teuck driver to take it to its location
- Quality Assurance
- QA use techniques to compare quality performance and often work as problem solvers and Clean Up staff
- Radio Frequency Scanner
- RF Scanner Scanners used to log into various tools in the FC to preform various process paths
- Rainbow Pallet
- A pallet that contains multiple asins
- Random Count
- Count used to measure quality in the building this counts provides VCP payout information
- Recieve
- Process of bringing product into the building
- Remedy
- Process which allows "tickets" that notify key people of problems in the FC"s
- Reserve Bin
- Bins used to store overflow items
- Root Cause
- A report showing basic reasons for quality problems
- Shipment Condition
- Catagories shipments travel through while passing through FC prior to shipment
- Smart Manifest
- A code in AMAZON data base that chooses the best shipment method
- Tote
- A container in which product items are moved from different locations
- Versa Cart
- A cart used tp place toted on in the picking process to move product
- Library Cart
- A cart used by problem solvers,receivers and stowers to move product throught the FC
- Physical Location
- Where an item is physically placed in the FC
- Wall to Wall count
- A count that checks every location in the FC to identify product is in the correct location both physically and virtually
- Zebra Printer
- A printer used to make labels within the FC
-
Kevlar
glove - A PPE worn to protect the hands while usung a bvox cutter
- Love Note
- A slip placed in an item to ensure the customer it is the best available quality
- Problem Solve Post its
- A sheet of information used to determine what the problen is with an order or product
- Inserts
- Advertisements placed in oreders to be shipped that AMAZON receives payment for from partners
- Conveyor
- Machinery used to transport totes throughout the FC
- Safe Weather Area
- Areas in the building used as protestion against severe weather emergencies
-
Human
Resources - Place to obtain associate support or information pertaining to personal issues
- Coach Cards
- A card to be filled out daily to observe the safe or unsafe habits of co workers