World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Why Have a Warehouse?
   • Supply chain imbalances
   • High-speed, zero-defect supply chains
   • Value-added warehousing
   • Rising warehousing costs
   • Confusion and crowding in the warehouse marketplace
   • The plight of the warehouse manager
   • Logistics litigation
   • Warehousing fundamentals
2. Warehouse Activity Profiling: Mining for Gold
   • Profiling motivations and minefields
   • Customer order profiling
   • Item activity profiling
   • Inventory profiling
   • Calendar-clock profiling
   • Activity relationship profile
   • Investment profile
3. Measuring and Benchmarking Warehouse Performance
   • Benchmarking warehouse operations
   • Warehouse performance measures
   • Warehouse performance gap analysis
   • Warehouse performance index
   • Do’s and Don’ts for warehouse automation
   • Warehouse practices and warehouse performance
4. Receiving and Putaway Principles
   • Receiving
   • Putaway
5. Pallet Storage and Retrieval Systems
   • Pallet storage systems
   • Pallet retrieval systems
   • Pallet storage/retrieval systems selection
6. Case Picking Systems
   • Pick face palletizing systems
   • Downstream palletizing
   • Direct loading systems
   • Case picking systems selection
7. Small Item Picking Systems
   • Picker-to-stock systems
   • Stock-to-picker systems
   • Automated item dispensing machines
   • Broken case picking systems comparison and selection
8. Order Picking Operations
   • Issue pack optimization
   • Pick from storage
   • Pick task simplification
   • Order batching
   • Slotting optimization
   • Pick sequencing
9. Unitizing and Shipping
   • Container optimization
   • Container loading and void fill
   • Weight checking
   • Automated, direct loading
   • Dock management
10. Warehouse Layout
    • Space requirements planning: Determine the overall space requirements for all warehouse processes
    • Material flow planning: Specify a U-shape, straight-thru, or modular overall flow design
    • Adjacency planning: locate functions with high adjacency requirements close to one another
    • Process location: Assign processes with high storage requirements to high-bay space
    • Expansion/contraction planning: Document expansion and contraction strategies for each warehouse process
11. Computerizing Warehouse Operations
    • Paperless and wireless warehouse systems
    • Warehouse management system justification, selection, and implementation
12. Warehouse Workforce Design and Development
    • Safety and ergonomic training
    • Time standards, incentives, and personnel scheduling
    • Optimal management-operator rations
    • Cross-training
    • Quality circles
    • 1/2 X 2 X 3 theory

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