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Practical Handbook of Warehousing

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  • © 1990

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  1. Kenneth B. Ackerman
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Table of contents (50 chapters)

  1. Planning Warehousing Operations

    1. Planning for People and Equipment

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      Pages 177-188

    2. Contingency Planning

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      Pages 189-195

    3. Postponement

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      Pages 197-204

    4. Strategic Planning

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      Pages 205-213

    5. Selecting a Public Warehouse

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      Pages 215-224

  2. Protecting the Warehouse Operation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Preventing Casualty Losses

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      Pages 227-239

    3. ‘Mysterious Disappearance’

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      Pages 241-250

    4. Safety, Sanitation and Housekeeping

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      Pages 251-263

    5. Contracts and Liability

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      Pages 265-269

    6. Verification of Inventories and Cycle Counting

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      Pages 271-284

  3. The Human Element

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285
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    2. Orientation and Training

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      Pages 287-300

    3. Labor Relations

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      Pages 301-313

    4. Motivation

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      Pages 315-324

    5. Maintaining and Improving Performance

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      Pages 325-340

  4. Productivity and Quality Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 341-341
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    2. Making Warehousing More Efficient

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      Pages 343-352

    3. Measuring Productivity

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      Pages 353-361

    4. Scheduling Warehouse Operations

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      Pages 363-367
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About this book

This is the third edition of a book first published in 1983. It con­ tains two new chapters. One of these deals with the growing use of "just-in-time" techniques and their effect on warehousing. A second new chapter covers specialized warehousing and three types of special storage - temperature control, protection of hazardous materials and "fulfillment" warehousing. Major changes in both materials handling and information processing and transmitting have caused appropriate changes in the contents of this book. For over two decades, the author has been involved in writing about the warehousing industry. Earlier writings were oriented to­ ward users and operators of public warehouses. The goal of this early writing was to develop a better understanding between the third party warehouse operator and his consumer, through a common apprecia­ tion of technical problems. Since that time, the number of information sources on warehous­ ing has increased. A professional society, the Warehousing Education and Research Council did not even exist when we first started writing about the industry. Today it provides an important source of informa­ tion in the field. Both private and third-party warehousing have grown in vol­ ume. More importantly, public awareness of warehousing as an in­ dustry in itself has increased.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practical Handbook of Warehousing

  • Authors: Kenneth B. Ackerman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1194-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-1194-3Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 640

  • Number of Illustrations: 111 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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