This title presents timeless insights for planning and managing 21st‎-century warehouse operations‎.‎ Despite today‎'‎s just‎-in‎-time production mentality‎,‎ with its efforts to eliminate warehouses and their inventory carrying costs‎,‎ effective warehousing continues to play a critical bottom‎-line role for companies worldwide‎.‎ "World‎-Class Warehousing and Material Handling" covers today‎'‎s state‎-of‎-the‎-art tools‎,‎ metrics‎,‎ and methodologies for dramatically increasing the effectiveness‎,‎ accuracy‎,‎ and overall productivity of warehousing operations‎.‎Written by one of today‎'‎s recognized logistics thought leaders‎,‎ this comprehensive resource provides authoritative answers on such topics as‎:‎ the seven principles of world‎-class warehousing‎;‎ warehouse activity profiling‎;‎ warehouse performance measures‎;‎ warehouse automation and computerization‎;‎ receiving and put away‎;‎ storage and retrieval operations‎;‎ picking and packing‎;‎ and‎,‎ humanizing warehouse operations‎.‎"World‎-Class Warehousing and Material Handling" describes the processes and systems required for meeting the changing demands of warehousing‎.‎ Filled with practices from proven to innovative‎,‎ it will help all logistics professionals improve the productivity‎,‎ quality‎,‎ and cycle time of their existing warehouse operations‎.‎ Not too long ago‎,‎ effective warehousing was a relatively straightforward progression of receiving‎,‎ storing‎,‎ and shipping‎.‎ But in today‎'‎s age of e‎-commerce‎,‎ supply chain integration‎,‎ globalization‎,‎ and just‎-in‎-time methodology‎,‎ warehousing has become more complex than at any time in the past ‎- not to mention more costly‎.‎"World‎-Class Warehousing and Material Handling" breaks through the confusing array of warehouse technology‎,‎ buzzwords‎,‎ and third‎-party providers to describe the principles of warehousing required for the implementation of world‎-class warehousing operations‎.‎ Holding up efficiency and accuracy as the keys to success in warehousing‎,‎ it is the first widely published methodology for warehouse problem solving across all areas of the supply chain‎,‎ providing an organized set of principles that can be used to streamline all types of warehousing operations‎.‎ Case studies from Avon‎,‎ Ford‎,‎ Xerox‎,‎ True Value Hardware‎,‎ and others detail how today‎'‎s most innovative logistics and supply chain managers are arriving at proven solutions to a wide variety of warehousing challenges‎.‎Topics discussed include‎:‎ warehouse activity profiling ‎- for identifying causes of information and material flow problems and pinpointing opportunities for improvement‎;‎ warehouse performance measures ‎- for monitoring‎,‎ reporting‎,‎ and benchmarking warehouse performance‎;‎ storage and retrieval system selection ‎- for improving storage density‎,‎ handling productivity‎,‎ and trade‎-offs in required capital investment‎;‎ order picking strategies ‎- for improving the productivity and accuracy of order fulfillment‎;‎ and‎,‎ computerizing warehousing operations ‎- for profiling activity‎,‎ monitoring performance‎,‎ and simplifying operations‎.‎"World‎-Class Warehousing and Material Handling" integrates global and e‎-commerce issues as it addresses customization‎,‎ information technology‎,‎ performance analysis‎,‎ expansion and contraction planning‎,‎ and the overall role of the warehouse in logistics management and the supply chain‎.‎ Filled with proven operational solutions‎,‎ it will guide managers as they develop a warehouse master plan‎,‎ one designed to minimize the effects of supply chain inefficiencies as it improves logistics accuracy and inventory management ‎- and reduces overall warehousing expense‎.‎