Integral Warehouse Management:
The Next Generation in
Transparency, Collaboration and
Warehouse Management Systems by
Jeroen P. van den Berg
Valuable, Useful, Thought Provoking, And Educational !
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.
Personal Review: Integral Warehouse Management: The Next
Generation in Transparency, Collaboration and Warehouse
Management Systems by Jeroen P. van den Berg
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
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