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World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling

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Timeless Insights for Planning and Managing 21st-Century Warehouse Operations

Despite today's just-in-time production mentality, with its efforts to eliminate warehouses and their inventory carrying costs, effective warehousing continues to play a critical bottom-line role for companies worldwide. World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling covers today's state-of-the-art tools, metrics, and methodologies for dramatically increasing the effectiveness, accuracy, and overall productivity of warehousing operations.

Written by one of today's recognized logistics thought leaders, this comprehensive resource provides authoritative answers on such topics

The seven principles of world-class warehousingWarehouse activity profilingWarehouse performance measuresWarehouse automation and computerizationReceiving and put awayStorage and retrieval operationsPicking and packingHumanizing warehouse operationsWorld-Class Warehousing and Material Handling describes the processes and systems required for meeting the changing demands of warehousing. Filled with practices from proven to innovative, it will help all logistics professionals improve the productivity, quality, and cycle time of their existing warehouse operations.

Not too long ago, effective warehousing was a relatively straightforward progression of receiving, storing, and shipping. But in today's age of e-commerce, supply chain integration, globalization, and just-in-time methodology, warehousing has become more complex than at any time in the past­­not to mention more costly.

World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling breaks through the confusing array of warehouse technology, buzzwords, and third-party providers to describe the principles of warehousing required for the implementation of world-class warehousing operations. Holding up efficiency and accuracy as the keys to success in warehousing, it is the first widely published methodology for warehouse problem solving across all areas of the supply chain, providing an organized set of principles that can be used to streamline all types of warehousing operations.

Case studies from Avon, Ford, Xerox, True Value Hardware, and others detail how today's most innovative logistics and supply chain managers are arriving at proven solutions to a wide variety of warehousing challenges. Topics discussed

Warehouse activity profiling­­for identifying causes of information and material flow problems and pinpointing opportunities for improvementWarehouse performance measures­­for monitoring, reporting, and benchmarking warehouse performanceStorage and retrieval system selection­­for improving storage density, handling productivity, and trade-offs in required capital investmentOrder picking strategies­­for improving the productivity and accuracy of order fulfillmentComputerizing warehousing operations­­for profiling activit

334 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 1996

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Excellent overview of material handling equipment. The best part is the activity profiling data analysis primers.
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