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| Safety Stock | Quantity of inventory used in inventory management systems to allow for deviations in demand or supply. Safety stock calculations will take into account historic deviations and use a required service level multiplier to determine the optimal safety stock level. The use of a Warehouse Management System (WMS) can eliminate the need for safety stock.
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| SCM | See Supply Chain Management
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| Screen Scraping | Software mechanism that provides the functionality to change the arrangement of data fields on a computer screen that accesses a mainframe computer program. Screen Scraping or Screen Mapping is frequently used in combination with terminal emulation software to "re-map" data fields from a standard mainframe or legacy application to be used on commodity hardware or on the smaller screen of a portable handheld device. |
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| Serial Number | A unique number assigned to each discrete unit of an item. |
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| Serial Number Tracking | The process of tracking serial numbers through manufacturing and distribution processes. |
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| Service Aisle | An aisle used to reach access aisles. Service aisles may also be used to gain access to storage lots. Utilizing the service aisle to gain facings or slots is often overlooked in making warehouse layouts. |
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| Shipping Manifest System | Software used to associate shipments with carrier, service, rate, etc. Shipping manifest systems will produce a report (physical or electronic) that is sent to the carrier (UPS, Fedex, DHL, USPS, etc.) to be used for billing purposes. Shipping systems will usually produce shipping documents such as compliance shipping labels, bill of ladings, etc. |
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| Shrinkage | Employee-related losses and losses by issue error. |
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| SKU (stock keeping unit) | The unique identification number assigned to an item. Also called the item number, part number, product number, or SKU number. |
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| Slotting | Slotting describes the activities associated with optimizing the pick location for a product. Factors to be considered for slotting optimization include the times a SKU is picked, the amount of cubic feet the stored items used, and the minimum face dimensions required at picking location, distance from other SKUs that could be part of the same batch, and distance from the product staging area. |
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| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a standard for exchanging lightweight XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP. SOAP, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), forms the foundation layer of the web services stack, providing a basic messaging framework that more abstract layers can build on to interop between heterogeneous systems. SOAP consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined data types, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. |
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| SQL | Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standard computer language for communicating with a relational database. |
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| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer - a protocol for transmitting private documents via LANs, MANs, and WANs - such as the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Most browsers support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:. Another protocol for transmitting data securely over the World Wide Web is Secure HTTP (S-HTTP). Whereas SSL creates a secure connection between a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely, S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual messages securely. SSL and S-HTTP, therefore, can be seen as complementary rather than competing technologies. Both protocols have been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard. |
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| Stacking Efficiency | A ratio expressed as a percentage of the potential stacking height used by the warehousing units in the stack after making all deductions for pallets or other horizontal separation. |
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| Staged Inventory | Inventory that is in a temporary storage area awaiting further processing. |
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| Staging | The process of getting product from its storage area and placing it near the loading area for later shipment; or in cross-docking, the process of unloading product and organizing it for immediate shipment. |
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| Staging Area | A designated area of the warehouse where product is temporarily placed or arranged for shipment. |
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| Standard Deviation | The spread of a distribution of numbers. The square root of the square of the variance of a number from the mean.
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| Start-up Costs (startup costs) | Costs associated with starting-up a business or operation. Typically includes real estate, equipment, technology, supplies, materials, and workforce. |
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| Start/Stop Characters | Distinct characters or patterns used at the beginning and end of each barcode symbol which provide the scanner with the start and stop reading instructions as well as the scanning direction indicator. |
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| Stock | The commodity or commodities on hand in a storeroom or warehouse to support operations. |
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| Stock Control | Determining the usage rate of an inventory and controlling the level of ordering and inventory accordingly. |
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| Stock Reservation | The sum of all quantities of a material reserved for withdrawal from stock. |
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| Stock-Out | The condition existing when a supply requisition cannot be filled from stock. |
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| Stock-Out Rate | The number of stock-outs per hundred line items picked. |
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| Storeroom | A secure place for storage of things. A storeroom may be a designated separate secure area within a warehouse or a designated storage room in a workplace and may contain warehouse stock or end-use items. |
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| Supply Chain | The supply chain consists of the physical and communication paths connecting multiple, inter-related businesses. Materials, goods, finished products, and information flow through these paths from their points of origin or source (often viewed as beginning with raw material) to the final end consumer. This flow is sometimes extended to include the eventual disposal, recycling, or return of goods. |
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| Supply Chain Management | The management of a supply chain of goods as a process from supplier of raw materials or components to the manufacturer, to the distributor to the wholesale buyer to the end consumer. Supply chain management involves the actual products moving through the chain, but also the management of all the information (data) about the product, such as its origin, its destination, payment status, client ordering history, and information about all parties that handle the product in all links of the supply chain. Supply Chain Management can streamline inventory, increase inventory turnover, improve the speed of transaction completion, and increase revenue for the client. |
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| Surplus | Commodities that are not returnable to the vendor for credit, but are useful for some purpose and are in excess or obsolete for the cost center owning the goods. |
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| Symbology | The language used to record information in bar code form. |
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