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BYLINE: Janet Nodar Large and small, Florida ports along the Gulf of Mexico are busy. Container and breakbulk volumes are rising, and warehouses are filling as fast as they are [...]

Currently, third party warehouses account for 7% of the warehouse industry and set to reach 20% or over by 2000, according to figures from a study carried out by The Ohio State University and the Warehouse and Education Research Council. The use of third-party warehouses has allowed companies to focus on their core businesses. Goods shipments to public warehouses will fall to 11.7% in 2000, from 12.6% in 1992, with contract business rising to 5.4% by 2000, against 4% in 1992., Many customers feel that they receive better service from public or contract warehouses. This is forcing many private warehouses to turn their business over to a third party. The third-party [...]

Operating a warehouse is an intricate series of isolated functions, each with unique challenges and characteristics. A productivity and performance measurement system, based upon established performance standards, is designed to [...]

California leads warehouse census With 4,800 major facilities, the state of California has more warehouses and wholesale distribution centers than any of the other 49 states. This is four times [...]

Little things mean big savings There has been a great deal of discussion about productivity and the barriers that stand in its way. Usually, the barriers that get the most [...]

BE PRODUCTIVE OR YOU'RE HISTORY The face of both private and public warehousing operations continues to change. The computer and other new management techniques have helped spawn change and improve [...]

Changing warehouse chaos to productivity War is hell, somebody once said. Although the warehouse isn't hell, it can be a battlefield. And the first-line supervisor is fighting it out in [...]

WAYS TO TAKE THE MEASURE OF A WAREHOUSE Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pa., has just completed a Quality Assurance Program for public warehouses that it believes will reduce [...]