Warehouse Management - The Definitive Guide to Improving Efficiency Minimizing Costs in

Learn all aspects of how to operate and manage the modern warehouse to optimize efficiency, costs and profit from this bestselling guide.

List of contents

Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: The role of the warehouse; Chapter - 02: Role of the warehouse manager; Chapter - 03: Warehouse processes - Receiving and put-away; Chapter - 04: Warehouse processes - Pick preparation; Chapter - 05: Goods-to-person and person-to-goods picking; Chapter - 06: Order-picking methods; Chapter - 07: Warehouse processes from replenishment to despatch and beyond; Chapter - 08: Information systems in the warehouse; Chapter - 09: Warehouse layout; Chapter - 10: Storage and handling equipment; Chapter - 11: Resourcing a warehouse; Chapter - 12: Warehouse costs; Chapter - 13: Performance measurement and management; Chapter - 14: Health and safety; Chapter - 15: The warehouse and the environment; Chapter - 16: The warehouse of the future; Chapter - 17: Appendix 1 Global warehouse costs; Chapter - 18: Appendix 2 Warehouse audit checklists; Chapter - 19: Bibliography; Chapter - 20: Websites of companies that have contributed to this book and other useful websites; Chapter - 21: Glossary

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gwynne Richards, Richards Gwynne
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781398618701
• ISBN: 978-1-398-61870-1
• No. of pages: 608
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Distribution, Purchasing & supply management, Retail and wholesale industries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Logistics & Supply Chain, Distribution & warehousing management, Distributive industries, Distribution and logistics management, Purchasing and supply management