Warehouse Management
eBook - ePub

Warehouse Management

The Definitive Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse

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eBook - ePub

Warehouse Management

The Definitive Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse

About this book

How can you lead warehouse transformation while cutting cost and complexity?

As automation, AI and data-led processes redefine logistics, Warehouse Management by Gwynne Richards is the definitive guide for senior operations leaders looking to modernize warehouse strategy and deliver long-term value.

Fully updated for its fifth edition, this bestselling book equips warehouse managers, logistics directors and distribution leads to respond to complex challenges with confidence, from rising cost pressures and ESG goals to new technologies reshaping operations.

Whether you're redesigning processes, deploying robotics or aligning teams around lean strategy, you'll learn how to:

- Improve cost-efficiency and throughput across warehouse functions
- Select and implement automation, AI and robotics tools
- Build environmentally responsible and future-ready operations
- Apply proven frameworks to increase resilience and responsiveness

Includes real-world examples from leading organizations, plus online videos and slides for deeper learning.

Deliver measurable results with the trusted guide for modern warehouse strategy.

Themes: warehouse strategy, logistics operations, automation, AI in supply chain, sustainable warehousing, cost optimization

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Information

Publisher
Kogan Page
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781398618701
eBook ISBN
9781398618718
Edition
5
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Industrial Management
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Online resources
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. 01 The role of the warehouse
  5. 02 The role of the warehouse manager
  6. 03 Warehouse processes: Receiving and put-away
  7. 04 Warehouse processes: Pick preparation
  8. 05 Order picking
  9. 06 Warehouse processes from replenishment to despatch and beyond
  10. 07 Information technology in the warehouse
  11. 08 Warehouse layout
  12. 09 Storage and handling equipment
  13. 10 Automation and robotics
  14. 11 Resourcing a warehouse
  15. 12 Warehouse costs
  16. 13 Performance measurement and management
  17. 14 Health and safety
  18. 15 The warehouse and the environment
  19. 16 Outsourcing
  20. 17 The warehouse of the future
  21. Appendix 1 Global warehouse costs
  22. Appendix 2 Warehouse audit checklists
  23. Bibliography
  24. Websites of companies that have contributed to this book and other useful websites
  25. Glossary
  26. Index