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The Warehouse Management Handbook

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This is the highly demanded second edition of The Warehouse Management Handbook. The second edition offers 39 crucial, leading-edge chapters, each written by a different noted warehouse management expert. There is not a more complete guide to the science of warehouse management in print. Numbering almost a thousand pages, The Warehouse Management Handbook, Second Edition is literally brimming with information that will improve warehouse performance and the bottom line. This book is a must for every warehouse.

Chapter topics include: Third Party Warehousing, Warehouse Space and Layout Planning, Simulation, Hazardous Materials Management, Environmental Concerns in Warehousing, Automated Guided Vehicle Systems, RF Communication, Warehouse Management Systems, Electronic Data Interchange, and Loss Control.

Special features in this book include a comprehensive index and two case studies. The Warehouse Management Handbook, Second Edition is the standard warehouse management reference, and is an ideal text for industrial engineering courses of study.

I recommend this book primarily for the extensive content. At over 900 pages, this book is enormous. Though you may want more detailed information on certain topics, you will at least find some useful information on virtually every topic related to managing a warehouse. The book is actually a collection of chapters written by different authors. Each chapter can be read independently of the others, which makes this a very good reference book.
Because of the multiple authors, there is some redundancy between chapters and inconsistency in the quality of the content.
If you're responsible for managing a warehouse, you should have this book on your bookshelf.

I've bought this handbook because I needed it for my logistics class. It has a lot of informations and really easy to understand. I think there is an online version of it free of charge. Just perform a web search using the ISBN number. I would like to recommend it to others.

I have used this great resource to teach warehouse management in my university classes at both the bachelor and MBA levels. Although quite dated in terms of the technology discussed, the basic principles are still valid and important for business students interested in distribution careers to know.

This book addresses ALL the nuts and bolts of warehousing. Although slightly dated, the principles remain the same. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a reference to the technical operations of a warehouse. Only thing missing is the "soft skills" such as people management, but then again, it never claims to address that.

As a beginner in warehouse managing, the book is very general and does not provide any useful learning to me. In the discussion of communication, it does not touch on web based technology among warehouse, suppliers and customers. It actually focus entirely on the expensive traditional EDI technology.