Book description
This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain warehousing processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it explains each warehousing option, basic warehousing storage and handling operations, strategic planning, and the effects of warehousing design and service decisions on total logistics costs and customer service. This reference introduces crucial concepts including product handling, labor management, warehouse support, and extended value chain processes, facility ownership, planning, and strategy decisions; materials handling; warehouse management systems; Auto-ID, AGVs, and much more. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Warehousing helps you optimize all facets of warehousing, one of the most pivotal areas of supply chain management. Coverage includes:
Basic warehousing management concepts and their essential role in demand fulfillment
Key elements, processes, and interactions in warehousing operations management
Principles and strategies for effectively planning and managing warehouse operations
Principles and strategies for designing materials handling operations in warehousing facilities
Critical roles of technology in managing warehouse operations and product flows
Best practices for assessing the performance of warehousing operations using standard metrics and frameworks
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1. Warehousing’s Role in the Supply Chain
- 2. Distribution Center Concept
- 3. General Warehousing and Distribution Center Strategies
- 4. Design and Layout
- 5. Personnel
- 6. Warehouse Negotiations, Agreements, and Contracts
- 7. Warehouse Management
- 8. Warehouse Performance
- 9. The Role of Industrial Product Packaging
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10. Warehousing and Transportation Interface
- Introduction
- Carrier to Warehouse Interaction
- Managing the Carrier Base
- Pricing and Negotiations
- Bill of Lading
- Freight Payment and Claims Management
- Traditional Cost Trade-Offs Between Warehousing and Transportation (This Section Is Based on Murphy and Wood, 2011, pp. 133–146)
- International Transportation
- Summary of Key Points
- Key Terms
- Suggested Readings
- Endnote
- 11. The Importance of Managing Inventory
- 12. Selecting Warehouse Locations
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13. Safety and Security
- Introduction
- Safety and Security
- Preventing and Reducing Warehouse Accidents
- Protecting Workers and Equipment: Dock Levelers, Restraints, and Bumpers
- Safe Product Movement
- Safety Cues
- Safe Picking and Replenishment
- Safe Product Staging
- Securing the Product
- Physical Security Measures
- Summary of Key Points
- Key Terms
- Suggested Readings
- 14. Equipment and Information Technology
- 15. Unique Functioning and Unique Materials Warehousing
- Glossary of Key Terms and Definitions
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Definitive Guide to Warehousing: Managing the Storage and Handling of Materials and Products in the Supply Chain
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780133448931
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