Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse Management Systems
Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse Management Systems
International research identifies a 20-30 percent gap in logistics costs between the best-in-class companies and the majority of their peers. Dutch warehousing expert Jeroen van den Berg shows in his book ‘Integral Warehouse Management’ how to bridge this gap. ‘A whole generation of logisticians have made us believe that reducing inventories, shortening response times and eliminating activities were the ultimate goals in supply chain optimization’, says the author. He admits that these initiativ
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Review by Philip Obal for Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse Management Systems
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Integral Warehouse Management is 252 pages of useful and valuable warehousing perspectives. The author clearly indicates how to move from a “reactive” warehouse operation into the ideal “collaborative” cost savings operations. This is an excellent book for all warehouse operations, integrators, and employees of WMS vendors. It explains the basics well and then rapidly educates one in intermediate and advance issues facing DC managers today.
In addition, Jeroen van den Berg shares many key insights on how to warehouse better. For example of one of these insights – Jeroen boldly discusses task priority logic. An excerpt from the book:
“WMS’s typically represent the urgency by a priority number. Some WMS’s have fixed priorities, e.g., a replenishment task is always more urgent than a pick task. Other WMS’s are able to assign an initial priority to a task and then automatically increase its priority with the course of time. We believe that priorities should relate to the deadlines rather than the start times. Hence, users should be creative and attempt to configure the priority numbers in the WMS so that they are linked to the deadlines.”
Bravo! Task priority values should be directly tied to the deadline and not its task age! Very good point. He then charts time-based aging versus deadline-based effectiveness (see pages 171 thru 173).
Besides, defining the basics in detail, the author goes into much appreciated detail on advanced warehousing topics. These include bin locator logic, service level agreements, inventory costing models, labor management systems, dashboards, key performance indicators, workload planning, workload fluctuation, discontinuities in warehousing operations, value added services, procurement, VMI, and much more! An innovative visual wave monitoring is displayed and explained in detail.
Excellent book! It’s a book that requires your full attention over a few days of time.
Written by Philip Obal, November 2007, President of IDII. Research & Management Consulting Firm. http://www.idii.com
Review by Uwe Karrenberg for Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse Management Systems
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This book is excellent for the understanding of functions of and processes within modern warehouse-management.
It enables the reader to implement and use KPIs, process management and create transparency throughout the whole warehouse.Some examples refer to techniques, which have to be used with actual IT software to create control, e.g. KPIs concerning performance management.
It gave me good ideas of how and where to use different techniques in optimizing the warehouse I am currently working on.
I have been working in the logistics-industry since more than 10 years now and I have already read lots of lectures and books about logistics, supply-chain and warehousing, but this one is really up to date and provides important information for newbies and also the experienced managers who are working in the logistics.
If you need know-how and like to improve your horizon, this one is a clear buy and hold.
Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse Management Systems
Review by ASH for Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse Management Systems
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In conjunction with Six Sigma and Lean principles this book suggests that there are other ways to maximize supply chain efficiencies. The book is well written and easy to ready. Additionally, the author provides many detailed graphics in order to allow the reader to better understand his concepts of Integral Warehouse Management.