Product Description

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 initiatives lowered inventory costs and improved service levels considerably, but at the same time they increased warehousing and transportation costs. The book Integral Warehouse Management introduces a new methodology that seeks optimizations in an integral manner, sometimes in radically different directions than other models. The ideas are illustrated by rules of thumb, figures, computational examples and cases studies that demonstrate their immediate potential in practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #253322 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-04
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

About the Author
Jeroen P. van den Berg (1967) is director and founder of Jeroen van den Berg Consulting, a consulting and software firm based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The company specializes in warehouse management and the application of logistics software tools. In 2006, it launched WIS (Warehouse Intelligence System), the world’s first standard management information system for warehouses and distribution centers. Mr. Van den Berg has used the principles highlighted in this book to help boost the logistics performance of numerous clients. He has written over thirty white papers and articles on this and related subjects. Mr. Van den Berg is a popular speaker at seminars and logistics courses. In 1996, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Twente in The Netherlands with his thesis “Planning and Control of Warehousing Systems”. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the same university. Mr. Van den Berg can be reached at Jeroen.van.den.Berg@JvdBconsulting.com.

Customer Reviews

Valuable, useful, thought provoking, and educational !
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

Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse Management Systems
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