Find More Space in Your Warehouse - 191 Time Tested Ways to Find Space

May 9, 2011 - PRLog -- IDII announces a new valuable reference book "How To Increase Your Warehouse Space" authored by warehouse veteran Art Liebeskind.  This practical how-to-book is highly organized with numerous color illustrations. It is a consolidation of valuable space saving ideas from 35 years of actual warehouse consulting experience. These ideas will benefit any warehouse operation.

Detailed & Organized

Find More Space in Your Warehouse! This book analyzes various Equipment, Packaging, and Space Management Systems and how they influence space utilization. For each functional area, note the specific methods to increase the utilization of space and realize that they may apply to other functional areas as well.

Through numerous & detailed tips, this book serves as a spark plug to jolt one into an organized search for hidden space in your warehouse. We will point you to functional areas in the warehouse operation in which specific topics will be pursued that will lead to increased utilization of space.

What Fellow Professionals Are Saying

The capacity problem is timeless, and every operator will face this issue, sooner or later. The text provides 191different tips to save space. The book is generously illustrated, and it includes a lengthy appendix that describes how to design effective pallet patterns. This "how to" book should be helpful for every warehouse manager. - Ken Ackerman

A consultant in book form! Art Liebeskind has done it again. Bringing to this book his decades of experience helping warehouses around the world improve their practices with clear-headed, direct thinking. ... Topics he discusses (among many) include optimizing slot storage, the actual costs of space, strategies for efficient throughput, the costs and advantages of equipment (lift trucks, shelving, packaging,) all things that can be real problems in real warehouses. The appendix, How to Design Effective Pallet Patterns, by itself is worth the cost of the book. If you have ever wished for a concise, practical helper for rethinking your warehouse operations, this book is what you have wished for. This is a reference to keep for years. - Kurt Oliver

This book by Liebeskind on "increasing warehouse capacity" will be appreciated by younger entrants to this industry. Being an industry that only adds cost to the product and not any significant value to it, we must find every way to stretch the capital dollars invested. The books outlines "191 Time tested ways to find space". Based on your facility's needs and organizational priorities, all you have to do is 'implement just one idea every week'. - Ram Krishnan

Chapters cover the following functional areas in "How To Increase Your Warehouse Capacity" book:

Chapter 1. Introduction   
Chapter 2. Handling Equipment, Aisles, Storage Height   
Chapter 3. Storage Equipment, Storage Height   
Chapter 4. Floor Storage & Deep Stacks   
Chapter 5. Packaging / Palletization   
Chapter 6. General Topics   
Chapter 7. Receiving Area   
Chapter 8. Storage Area   
Chapter 9. Order Picking Area   
Chapter 10. Packing and Checking Area   
Chapter 11. Shipping   
Chapter 12. Planning a New Facility   
Appendix A. How To Design Effective Pallet Patterns   
   
Specifications: Color book with numerous illustrations, 5.5 x 8.5 size, 213 pages, ISBN-10: 0980073456, ISBN-13: 978-0980073454, and available via all retail book sellers.   Retail price $79.95 USD.   Title: How To Increase Your Warehouse Capacity.  Author: Art Liebeskind.  Publisher: IDII

One may order this reference book from IDII.com, Amazon.com, or any other book store.  It is available in both PDF format and print format currently.   More information on this title can be found at http://www.idii.com/capacity.htm  - Organizations desiring volume purchases should contact IDII directly for pricing.

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