Warehouse Management
The Definitive Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse
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Beschreibung
Learn all aspects of how to operate and manage the modern warehouse to optimize efficiency, costs and profit from this bestselling guide.
Modern warehouses are capitalizing on cutting-edge technologies to maximize their role in the wider supply chain. Understand how to successfully manage these warehouses with this bestselling guide.
The fifth edition of Warehouse Management is fully updated to include up to date information across the board. The latest technologies in warehousing, such as robotics and automation are explained. This new edition also explores emerging technologies, like AI and IoT, and how they are shaping new warehouse management systems There are new case studies from companies who have achieved improvements and cost savings through the introduction of new technology and equipment, leaner processes and environmental initiatives.
Warehouse Management guides the reader through all aspects of successfully managing a warehouse, its operations and distribution. This bestselling book covers an extensive range of key topics from defining the modern warehouse, detailing management processes, strategies and practices to outlining how to tackle environmental challenges to ensure a sustainable supply chain. With practical insights and real-world case studies into how to improve operating costs, this is a must read for optimizing warehouse performance. Online resources include PowerPoint slides and a bonus chapter on outsourcing.
Outlines essential information on warehouse management and how to overcome common challenges and exploit potential opportunities
Provides practical advice on how to operate an efficient and cost-effective warehouse using methods such as resource planning, labour management and warehouse layout
New to this edition: includes sections on the future of warehouse management as well as current trends like automation and robotics, with new content outlining how emerging technologies, like AI and IoT, are shaping new warehouse management systems
Online resources: PowerPoint slides (lecture slides) and an additional chapter on outsourcing
Explores the latest technologies and how these will impact the future of warehousing
Autor*in
Gwynne Richards
Gwynne Richards has over thirty years' experience in warehouse management and logistics. As well as running his own successful logistics consultancy, he provides a number of courses on warehouse and transport management for practitioners. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Warwick and the University of Aston. He is the author of Warehouse Management and The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit, published by Kogan Page.
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