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Notes manufacturers in huge warehouses that take the place of internal distribution centers or
third party logistics providers.
4. A break-bulk facility is for the consolidation of …………………-distance transportation
movement for less-than-truckload freight to lower transport costs.
5. A …………………………… is a practice in logistics of unloading materials from an
incoming truck or rail car and loading these materials in outbound trucks or railway
wagons, with little or no storage in between.
6. ……………………… cross docking: receiving product from multiple vendors and sorting
onto outbound trucks for different stores.
7. …………………………. cross docking is when the customer is assigned before the shipment
leaves the vendor, so it arrives to the cross dock bagged and tagged for transfer.
8. ………………… equipment is used to handle material at a single location, so that it is in
the correct position for subsequent handling, machining, transport, or storage.

9. ………………. are used to transport material form one fixed point to another fixed point.
10. The …………………….. specifies the circulation, supplier’s name, codes, date, purchase
order no., challan no. and date, description code number, unit quantity, bin card and
received/ rejected/accepted reference.
11. Continuous stock verification is generally used for ……………… inventory systems.
12. A ……………….. control system is an integrated package of software and hardware used
in stores operations, and elsewhere, to monitor the quantity, location and status of inventory
as well as the related shipping, receiving, picking and put away processes.

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Case Study Agrostroj Pelhrimov

Product: Accellos One Warehouse
Industry: Agricultural Equipment
Key Benefits

 Increase in accuracy from 50% to 98%
 Picking process time reduced by 50%
 Reduction in number of picking errors

 Sales order cycle time 3 times faster
 Able to reduce labor by two personnel
Company
Established in 1886 in Pelhrimov, Czech Republic, Agrostroj Pelhrimov (Agrostroj) has
been providing North and South America, Europe, and Russia with a wide selection of
specialized agricultural machinery for over a century. The sole manufacturer of agricultural
machinery in the Czech Republic, Agrostroj builds agricultural machines and precise
engineering tools in addition to partnering with other multi-national agricultural
machinery companies such as Volvo, Mitsubishi, and Caterpillar. Agrostroj’s product
output consists of 20% finished machinery, 13% engineering tools, and 67% joint
collaboration projects. With over 900 employees and sales reaching 37 million Euros in
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