Glossary

A heavy duty shelving designed for non-palletized product that is too heavy for standard industrial shelving.  Can be up to 8’ wide.

A container or bin used where larger size or quantities of material need to be stored.  Bulk bins can be made out of plastic or steel.  Also known as bulk containers.

A carton that is open where orders call for less than carton quantity.

A horizontal framing structure supported by free-standing columns or suspended from building columns or roof trusses.  A girder runs perpendicular to the end structure and is dynamic and runs with end trucks.  A bridge crane is a required when product

A rectangular box with or without a lid used to store products or ship goods.  Bins can be made out of cardboard, plastic or steel.

A type of shelving where shelves have vertical dividers creating small “cubby” type openings where product needs to be segregated.

A power roller conveyor where a belt is driven underneath a bed of rollers causing the rollers to roll and convey packages in opposite direction of belt travel.

A power conveyor that utilizes a continuous looped belt driven around a steel pan and pulleys by a motor.  Belts can be rubber, plastic, PVC or steel.  Belt conveyors are also known as slider bed conveyor.

The process of grouping orders where pickers pick the same SKU for multiple orders at the same time, thereby reducing the travel time.  Finished batch will then have to be married up with other lines on order either manually or

Speed and accuracy of product identification is increased by use of this machine readable label of printed parallel lines (bars).  Bar codes are read by laser scanners.