

Gwynne Richards' highly regarded and best-selling text on warehouse management is a complete guide to best practice in warehouse operations. Warehouse Management examines how to operate an efficient and cost-effective warehouse. It provides guidance on using the latest technology, reducing inventory, people management, location and design. Covering everything from the latest technological advances to current environmental issues, Warehouse Management provides an indispensable companion to the modern warehouse. The text considers key aspects of warehouse management, including cost reduction, productivity, people management, and warehouse operations. In addition to providing updates on future advances in warehouse management, Gwynne Richards tackles the key issues that are challenging today's managers, including pressure to reduce lead times, increase productivity, reduce cost, improve customer service, reduce environmental impact, and maintain health and safety standards. Offering comprehensive direction on all aspects of managing a warehouse, Warehouse Management is an ideal guide and detailed reference book for anyone looking to gain a real insight into warehouse operations. In this 2nd edition of Warehouse Management , there are more case studies, photographs as well as extensive accompanying online resources, such as PowerPoints and video links. Review: Amazing book! Very useful! - Amazing!! Everything you might need to start going in depth with any warehouse task and issue Review: Just what I needed - Informative and has given some great ideas we are exploring even with a small warehouse. Well written and easy to understand.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 63 Reviews |
L**I
Amazing book! Very useful!
Amazing!! Everything you might need to start going in depth with any warehouse task and issue
M**.
Just what I needed
Informative and has given some great ideas we are exploring even with a small warehouse. Well written and easy to understand.
A**I
Five Stars
Book is fine but 2 weeks of dalay is not.
B**S
Hard to believe, but what a find!
This is a book that should be strongly considered as required reading for anyone whose job is even the most tangentially-linked to the supply chain. Yes, that might include those in the executive suite who still cling to the old notion that a warehouse is a place for tying up a company’s money. The author has done a great job with this rather hefty book in managing a fine balancing act: providing a LOT of great, informative, up-to-date information for the “supply chain geeks” as well as offering a lot of actionable, helpful, no-hype-just-facts to the rest of us. Seventeen large chapters are crammed full of information covering everything from the seemingly basic “role of the warehouse” to “performance management” and “outsourcing”. Yet this is not a dumbed-down book, far from it. Just the right amount of information is imparted to make the reader be better informed, filling their mind with information they might not have considered before but but boy can be it be relevant. An outsider will not look at a warehouse in the same way ever again. This is all backed up by a lot of other information in appendices and various web references should you need to drill down even further. There is no excuse for ignorance after having this book on your shelf. This is a book that will be a regularly-consulted companion. Even if you believe you know “this stuff” just like you know your alphabet. To the more casual reader there might be an element of sticker shock - even though the book doesn’t even cost an hour of a consultant’s time and you could be ploughing through it for weeks. For those on a budget there is also a Kindle version. This reviewer could see a book of this kind being required reading for students too. There is a lot of thought-provoking, eye-opening text that even managed to get this jaded “been in the business world too long” reviewer thinking. In many cases companies tend to overlook the importance of “the warehouse”, especially with the past rush to JIT and stock minimisation. With a book like this maybe some attitudes will be changed by those in power, reaffirming what those who do this sort of job daily have known for a long time. Really, you might think it strange that someone can get “excited” about a book like this. Yet the author’s carefully-crafted, chosen words are literally as powerful, as engaging and as required reading as perhaps a dozen (or more) management theory and “life story” books. If you invest the time you will look at things in a more positive, different light and see a greater degree of connectivity between business processes in the long run. Many examples and lessons learned from “the warehouse” can be also adapted to other elements of business life if you try.
A**N
Five Stars
Very informative Great deal, good product. All good thank you
I**E
Très bon livre!
Je suis toujours au début, mais l'auteur détaille bien les étapes de création et de gestion d'un entrepôt logistique! Contenu intéressant!
T**R
Equally engrossing for first timers as well as seasoned professionals
Very detailed book that covers all aspects of efficient warehouse management that impacts all businesses and in turn effects all of us. Equally engrossing for first timers as well as seasoned professionals. Enjoyed and learnt from it. Thanks.
J**D
Five Stars
Excellent pour l'enseignement universitaire. Tous les sujets sont touchés. Je le recommande.
A**R
Um livro bastante completo
Um livro muito bom para qualquer pessoa trabalhando com armazéns. Traz bastante detalhes e opções de em linha com os diferentes cenários que um gerente de armazém pode enfrentar.
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