What will the warehouse of the future look like? Will Amazon’s idea of a warehouse in the sky take off and what does that mean for incumbent retailers?
In the new and fully updated edition of Warehouse Management: A Complete Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse, Gwynne Richards answers these and other questions about the challenges companies face.
Published in November 2017, this guide is the ideal tool for professionals seeking comprehensive advice on all aspects of managing a warehouse, and the definitive manual for students of logistics looking for their only textbook. Now with handy warehouse audit checklists, insightful photographs, video links and projections, this new edition will prepare your business to respond to the demands of e-commerce, same-day delivery, Industry 4.0 and any challenges.
Peter Ward, chief executive of the United Kingdom Warehousing Association, said, “There are few people in the world with Gwynne’s specialist knowledge and experience, and aligned to the rapid pace of change in today’s logistics industry his latest edition of Warehouse Management: A Complete Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse is an invaluable tool in understanding best practice in this vitally important but often understated business.”
Michael Mikitka, CEO of the Warehousing Education and Research Council in the United States, called the book “Comprehensive! An excellent resource for anyone with warehouse and distribution responsibilities.”
Richards has more than 30 years of experience in warehouse management and logistics. As well as running his own successful logistics consultancy, he provides a number of courses on warehouse and transport management and logistics outsourcing for practitioners. He is also the co-author of The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit with Susan Grinstead, also published by Kogan Page. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT).
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