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Professional Sectors & Forums - Warehouse & Materials Handling
Chairman: Bernard Molloy FCILT
During the last few years, the role of the warehouse has radically changed to meet increasing demands of more responsive supply chains. The warehouse has taken on the role of manufacturing as a mass customisation centre and retailing where it supplies direct to the end-user. Inventory carrying costs have been recognised as a key financial measure and the cost of capital employed in a warehouse impacts the bottom line.
Many complex technologies are now deployed in order to produce an effective operation and to optimise the cost-performance equation. Resulting in our facilitation in project support groups and dissemination of information on trends, best practice and design.
Forum Mission Statement
'To initiate review and discussion in all areas of warehouse design, operation, and in the appropriate use of technology and materials handling.
To share information with members via the setting up of events and workshops and by providing articles on the forum website.
To aim where applicable to collate common standards of (best) practice to promote operational improvement and benchmarking.
Events
Reports & Presentations
- Research paper - 'An exploration of warehouse automation implementations: cost, service and flexibiity issues' by Peter Baker and Zaheed Halim
- Newsletter
- Warehouse Planning and Design Event - Getting it Right
- Materials Handling Automation - When is it Justified?
- Warehouse Benchmarking Report
- Warehousing Education and Research Council, USA
- Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, USA
- Why do some people say a warehouse is an admission of failure?
- Why do warehouses have to be made of bricks and mortar?
- Examples of Goods in Operations at 3PLs
- An Overview of Goods In
- Feedback to Goods In Seminar 4th July 2006
- Volumetric Efficiencies in Warehousing Seminar - 19th September 2006
- Overview of the Principles of Warehouse Picking - 28th February 2007
- Picking in a Parts Supply Chain - 28th February 2007
- Despatch your Despatch Problems - 3rd October 2007
- Warehousing & Materials Handling Forum Opening Slides
- Managing Performance - November 2008
- Managing People In Warehouses - 26th November 2008
- TUPE Transfers: The People Impact - 26th November 2008
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