ABOUT THE BOOK

Two proverbs from Solomon are the guiding forces for World-Class Warehousing.

“Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.” —Solomon

The wisest man who ever lived advises us in his terms to plan our business first and then build a warehouse to support it. A wisely conceived warehouse provides value added services to the business and should be designed accordingly.

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established.” —Solomon

The wisest man who ever lived also advises us to use wisdom and understanding in building and operating a warehouse. That wisdom and understanding are embedded in the analytics and practices of World-Class Warehousing.

I have been consulting, teaching, benchmarking, and researching in supply chain logistics my entire career. I have traveled to 72 countries and worked in nearly every major industry. Along the way I have visited over a thousand warehouses. With that as background, to the best of my ability, this book is an extraction, synthesis, description, and illustration of the fundamentals, operating principles, best practices, and designs that make world-class warehouses world-class.