Practical Handbook of Warehousing
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 thre
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WAREHOUSING
Third Edition
Practical Handbook of
WAREHOUSING Kenneth B. Ackerman
~ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Cover photograph courtesy of Trammel Crow Distribution Corporation ISBN 978-1-4757-1196-7 ISBN 978-1-4757-1194-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-1194-3
Copyright © 1990 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1990. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990
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Introduction
This is the third edition of a book first published in 1983. It contains 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 toward 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 appreciation of technical problems. Since that time, the number of information sources on warehousing 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 information in the field. Both private and third-party warehousing have grown in volume. More importantly, public awareness of warehousing as an industry in itself has increased. This book is intended to serve both the private and third-party warehouse operator. It is designed primarily as a handbook for the warehousing practitioner, but it also serves as a guide for students, being based on the experience of the author as both an operating ware-
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houseman and as a management consultant. It draws heavily upon our writings as editor and publisher of WAREHOUSING FORUM, as well as our past service as editor of Warehousing and Physical Distribution Productivity Report. It is designed as a management reference for anyone who is involved in operating, using, constructing or trading in industrial warehouses.
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Acknowledgements
Dozens of people made this book possible; they are credited in the footnotes wherever possible. The book could not have been prepared witho
