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Warehouse Management and Materials Handling

In: Effective Marketing Logistics

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  • Graham Buxton

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In many people’s minds the activities associated with warehousing goods are primarily passive in nature, involving either temporary or ‘permanent’ storage in order to bridge the production-consumption gap, which we have elsewhere referred to as the ‘discrepancy of assortments’. However, a brief survey of the tasks which are common to a proper functioning of warehouse operations should convince these people that storage is in fact only a minor aspect of the total process. This may appear to be, on the surface, a rather contradictory statement — after all, warehouses do provide space for inventory accumulation and withdrawals, and space is a natural corollary of storage. Such a viewpoint, though, must necessarily be a limited one, since it fails to take into account the considerable amount of handling which takes place prior to and following the period during which items are retained in a given location.

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  • Graham Buxton, 1975. "Warehouse Management and Materials Handling," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Effective Marketing Logistics, chapter 6, pages 125-144, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-02101-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02101-7_6
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