Lean Warehousing

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first book to apply the lean manufacturing theory specifically to the world of warehousing. This 156-page soft cover book has nine parts, dealing with the why of getting lean and how it works, as well as storage, materials handling, tools, consumables, construction and leadership. The last part on implementation has a series of checklists. This reader friendly text combines the best of lean theory with practical tips that can be applied in your warehouse.

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Auditing Warehouse Performance

Warehousing is deceptively simple. Many believe that the function is so basic that any decent manager can run an effective warehouse. Then when the operation does not run smoothly, it is not easy to understand why. This book provides multiple approaches to the auditing process. We explore the "why" as well as the "how to." With the charts and examples presented, you will be well equipped to audit the performance of your warehouses.

Auditing Warehouse Performance succinctly covers such critical topics as productivity, efficiency, efficient layout, and understanding costs.

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Warehousing Tips

With 17 years' worth of tips gleaned from Warehousing Forum, this is the definitive quick-reference every warehouse manager needs, yet its priced to be accessible to more than just the manager.

$39.75

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"Such things as Housekeeping, and Space Utilization became common topics on the floor. Customer Service was now concentrating on inventory accuracy and turn around time for each order."
Robert C. Carr
Vice President Logistics
The CCW Group, Inc

Warehousing Fundamentals

A self-study course

Getting ahead in this business requires increased knowledge. Today's climate of continuous learning means that the education that got you where you are isn't enough to earn advancements. But the problem is time. It's impossible to take a semester or quarter away from the office to pursue knowledge. It's difficult even to spend evenings and weekends in class - if you can find a class that provides the information you need. See more.

$398

Includes Warehousing Profitably - An Update and Ackerman's Words of Warehousing glossary.

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Warehousing Forum

Warehousing Forum, a monthly newsletter, is the industry publication dedicated to helping warehouse managers and their bosses improve productivity. It is designed to allow them to manage more profitably with tips, comments, and articles written by practicing professionals. This publication has attracted a growing number of subscribers from all over the world, for all of these reasons:

• Its authors are warehousing professionals whose writing is based on personal experience, rather than interviews with others.
• It is precise and practical, with a priority placed on "take home value."
• Each month, the feature story provides insightful coverage of a key issue.
• Ken's Comments is an editorial section written to deal with general management issues as well as warehousing.
• Warehousing Tips includes practical nuggets of information for operations people.
• The back page is Warehousing Digest, which reviews and excerpts the best writing found in other publications.

See the Warehousing Forum source locator, a reference list of all articles from previous issues.
This document is in Adobe PDF format.

Subscription: $96 per year
via First Class Mail

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January 2000 revision
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Also available in Spanish.

"If both you and your very top management read the book, you will have a common ground with which to communicate. This book does an excellent job of presenting broad concepts and useful theories."

Art Liebsekind,
in The Howard Way Letter

Warehousing Profitably —
An Update

Warehousing Profitably -- An Update takes a different approach from our previous writings and from others found in the marketplace. This book is not written just for the warehouse manager it is also for the warehouse manager's boss. Many senior managers know that the warehouse isn't working well, but they don't know how to fix it. This 400-page, hardbound book (Nearly 42% of the material in this update is new!) is designed to show you how to tell when it's not working well, and then what you can do to correct the situation. While the book should be helpful to everyone who works in a warehouse, it will also be useful for those who don't work there, but want the warehouse to run better.

At the end of each chapter, you will find a page with "Questions That Solve Problems." Each question is followed by a comment rather than an answer. The purpose of this is not to test your ability to read and remember, but rather to help management review warehousing problems.

Our prime goal is to illustrate what it takes to manage warehouses profitably. While other writings in warehousing may seem to tell you how to build a watch, this book is designed to tell you exactly what time it is.

Warehousing Profitably – An Update: $79.75

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Warehousing Profitably is now available in SPANISH. For more information, go here.

Highlights from Warehousing Profitably

Highlights from Warehousing Profitably is a 90-minute audio tape which contains selected portions of the text described in Warehousing Profitably -- A Manager's Guide. While you cannot cover the whole, book in 90 minutes, this professionally produced tape is designed to cover the highlights of the larger text. For managers who like to learn while listening to audio tapes, this medium provides a valuable learning tool.

$39.00

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Words of Warehousing 2

Words of Warehousing 2 is the second edition of a glossary first developed in 1991. Its terminology includes nearly all of the printable jargon used in warehousing. This dictionary is designed to help the newcomer understand what is going on in a warehouse, but it also provides a reference for the experienced warehousing professional. The book translates between warehousing's convoluted terminology and plain English. The second edition has been completely revised and updated to include even more of the words you need to know in the warehouse.

$34.00

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About the Author

Kenneth Ackerman has spent his entire business career in warehousing. Before becoming an international management advisor, he headed a multi-location warehousing company. He has written extensively on the subject and he conducts warehousing seminars all over the country and overseas. Active in professional trade groups, he is a past president and winner of The Distinguished Service Award of Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and founder of Warehousing Education and Research Council.

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