Reverse Logistics. noun. 1. Term used by "big box" retailers who have their own supply chains referring to the process of sending product back to the distributor for credit. (If you're talking about returns, just say RETURNS, dammit! Do you call your expenses, reverse income? Should we start referring to complaints as reverse compliments? Is forgetting something reverse learning? Where does it end?)
Smart -- adjective. 1. PREFIX attached to nouns so as to suggest the objects have something to do with technology, usually done by managers desperate to sound "hip." (Smart labels, smart shelves, smart cards, smart tags, smart carts, smart software... Adding an RFID circuit to a label does not make it smart. Nor does adding a computer to a piece of equipment. )
(Can a smart label call me a dumb-ass if I slap it on the wrong carton? If it could, it would then be a smart label, as well as a smart-ass label. Can a computer make a decision that it was not specifically programmed to make? Not yet. Until that time comes, the only things that can be considered smart (having intelligence) are people, and, if you ask me, not all that many people qualify either.)
[quoted from Inventory Ops Business Humor.]
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