Pull-Based Customer Replenishment Signals

A signal based on actual demand and consumption from customers triggers the issue of a reorder of products or materials.

Pull Ordering System

A system in which each warehouse controls its own shipping requirements by placing individual orders for inventory with the central distribution center. This is a replenishment system where inventory is 'pulled' into the supply chain (or 'demand chain' by POS systems or ECR programs) and is associated with 'build-to-order' systems.

Pull or Pull-Through Distribution

Supply-chain action initiated by the customer. Traditionally, the supply chain was pushed: manufacturers produced goods and 'pushed' them through the supply chain, while the customer had no control. In a pull environment, a customer's purchase sends replenishment information back through the supply chain, from retailer to distributor to manufacturer, so goods are 'pulled' through the supply chain.

Pull Signal

A signal that triggers the issuance of a reorder of products or materials; also known as pull-based customer replenishment signals.

Pup

A 28-foot trailer is mostly used in the less-than-truckload business.

Purchase Order (PO)

The purchaser's authorization is used to formalize a purchase transaction with a supplier. It is the physical form or electronic transaction that a buyer uses when placing an order for merchandise.

Purchase Price Variance

The difference between the actual vendor invoice price or manufacturing cost and the expected or standard cost.

Purchase Price Viscount

A pricing structure in which the seller offers a lower price if the buyer purchases a larger quantity.

Purchasing

The functions associated with buying the goods and services required by the firm are as follows:

Pure raw material

A raw material that does not lose weight in processing.

Push Back Rack

Utilizing wheels in the rack structure, this rack system allows palletized goods and materials to be stored by being pushed up a gently graded ramp. Stored materials are allowed to flow down the ramp to the aisle. This rack configuration allows for deep storage at each rack level.

Push Distribution

The process of building a product and pushing it into the distribution channel without receiving any information regarding requirements.

Push Ordering System

A situation in which a firm makes inventory deployment decisions at the central distribution center and ships them to its individual warehouses accordingly.

Push Technology

Webcasting (push technology) is the prearranged updating of news, weather, or other selected information on a computer user's desktop interface through periodic and generally unobtrusive transmission over the World Wide Web (including the use of the Web protocol on an intranet). Webcasting uses so-called push technology, in which the web server ostensibly 'pushes' information to the user rather than waiting until the user specifically requests it.

Put Away

The activities involved in moving materials from a receiving area or the end of a production process into inventory stock locations.

Put-to-Light

A method that uses lights to direct the placement of materials, most often used in batch picking to designate the tote to place the picked item into.