Integral Warehouse Management

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.