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Warehousing and Fulfillment

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Warehousing and Fulfillment Process Benchmark & Best Practices

This workbook is for practitioners to learn more about qualitative warehousing best practices. It helps identify process strengths and weaknesses in an organization so a roadmap for improvement efforts can be crafted.

Member Price: $80.00         Non-Member Price: $160.00


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Warehouse Manager’s Guide For Benchmarking

You’ll read about the different kinds of benchmarking, why it’s important to benchmark, how to choose the right metrics, how to analyze your company’s performance, and techniques for communicating to get the results you need.

Member Price: $55.00         Non-Member Price: $110.00


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Contract Warehousing: How It Works and How to Make It Work Effectively

Based on the successful experiences of clients and vendors, this publication provides an analysis of contact warehousing so that its use, structure, application and operation can be better understood and implemented.

Member Price: $15.00         Non-Member Price: $30.00


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a guide for establishing Warehouse Job Descriptions, 3rd Edition

This guide was developed to help warehouse managers create or revise their position descriptions. It contains descriptions for 34 positions found in a typical warehouse or DC, each of which can be used to write job descriptions applicable to your own organization. 

 

 Member Price: $35.00         Non-Member Price: $70.00


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Guide to Warehouse Internships

A survey of WERC members plus a review of relevant literature, 16 years of internship experience and direct contacts with industry were used to establish a profile of what attributes a warehouse intern should have and an outline for typical warehouse/distribution internship experience.

Member Price: $15.00         Non-Member Price: $30.00


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Making the Move to Cross Docking A Practical Guide

This 176-page publication takes the much-talked-about operation of cross docking and provides a practical, easy-to-understand guide on how to do it.

Member Price: $35.00         Non-Member Price: $70.00


 Private Warehousing

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Private Warehousing: A Snapshot

This book looks at private warehousing by surveying 45 users of private warehousing as well as conducting a review of almost 50 private warehousing examples from trade publications.

Member Price: $25.00         Non-Member Price: $50.00


 Product Returns

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Products Returns/Reverse Logistics in Warehousing

The report discusses product returns activities—receipt, sort and stage, process return, analyze return, support operations—and includes sample process maps and a number of exhibits. The "make vs. buy" decision is examined, strategies and tactics are discussed, a number of metrics are suggested and equipment and personnel requirements are outlined.

Member Price: $30.00         Non-Member Price: $60.00


Starting Up a World Class DC

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Starting Up A World Class DC: A Roadmap to Success

This 94-page book is a "how-to" on managing the design and implementation of a top-notch warehousing facility using a case-study approach to the development of Hershey Foods Corporation’s Eastern DC III (EDC III). Ken Miesemer, general manager of Eastern Distribution Operations and project manager of the EDC III project, shares his experiences and lessons learned during this complex undertaking.

Member Price: $25.00         Non-Member Price: $50.00


Using Competencies

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Using Competencies in the Warehouse

This publication clearly and concisely identifies warehousing competencies, explains why they can be effective for warehouse associates and the overall company and outlines ways to implement them. Case studies of companies that are using competencies successfully point out the benefits of the approach. 

Member Price: $25.00         Non-Member Price: $50.00


 Warehouse Inventory

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Warehouse Inventory Turnover: Trends; Change Drivers; Measures; Using the Data

Use this resource to explore the many factors affecting inventory turnover rates, to learn how to accurately calculate measures and to discover the most appropriate uses for the data collected. The study examines inventory turnover results in 1995, 1998 and those estimated for the end of 2000.

Member Price: $10.00         Non-Member Price: $20.00


Benefits 2005

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Warehousing Benefits Programs, 2007

Reports on benefits practices such as paid time off, retirement and savings plans, health plans, tuition reimbursement, alternative work schedules and sign-on bonuses based on data from a sample of WERC member manufacturers, wholesalers/distributors, retailers and third-party firms. 

Member Price: $35.00         Non-Member Price: $70.00


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Warehousing Salaries & Wages, 2006

Reports practices of wholesalers/distributors, manufacturers, retailers and third-party firms in 15 job categories and provides an excellent tool for benchmarking company pay and bonus practices across the industry. 

Member Price: $75.00         Non-Member Price: $150.00


 WMS Phase 1

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WMS: Phase 1: Assessment & Selection

Selecting the right warehouse management system (WMS) for a DC is critically important – but doing so is not easy. This book tackles the dizzying number of questions involved in choosing a WMS and examines the critical path steps that must be completed to improve chances of success and optional steps that can be taken given the proper resources and time.

Member Price: $28.00         Non-Member Price: $56.00

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Selecting Warehouse Software From WMS and ERP Providers

 

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by Philip Obal, Industrial Data & Information

If you're considering options in selecting a WMS or ERP system, this book is for you.

"Make this mandatory reading for everyone on the selection team. If the selection team members will analyze and digest the content of this publication, they will ask advanced level questions to the software providers and have a stronger focus on re-engineering opportunities."

WERC member SPECIAL price $59.00


      

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