An essential tool for everyone involved in warehouse management, this expert guide offers you a step by step approach to creating a totally integrated warehouse system. It represents proven method for reducing operating costs, enhancing inventory control, increasing profits, improving customer satisfaction and protecting assets.

Warehouse Distribution and Operations Handbook (McGraw-Hill Handbooks) | David Mulcahy (Author) | McGraw-Hill Education

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Logistics and some strategic considerations in future
Operating costs and customer service
Chapter 2: Warehouse and distribution operation objectives and company profit and service objectives
Chapter 3: How facility and layout and product flow pattern affects productivity and handling costs
Chapter 4: Truck and rail receiving and shipping dock areas
Chapter 5: Routing and organizing the work of order pickers
Chapter 6: Organizing small-item facility handling activities
Chapter 7: Carton (full-case) handling in warehouse and distribution operations
Chapter 8: Arranging key pallet (unit load) functions to control operating costs, improve inventory control, and maximise storage space
Chapter 9: Which horizontal or vertical transportation method controls internal transportation costs and handles the volume and product
Chapter 10: The best lift truck and mobile warehouse equipment for an operation
Chapter 11: Stacking stackabale and nonstackable products
Chapter 12: The best inventory control and storage-pick position for an operation
Chapter 13: Manual versus automatic identification systems
Chapter 14: Decreasing product flow time and handling costs with an across-the-dock operation
Chapter 15: Facility site selection