What will future warehouses look like?

By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 11/1/1998

The Changing Role of Warehousing, a 46-page report from the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC), addresses the question posed in the headline above. Forty shippers, warehouse operators, distributors, and commercial real estate firms gave their answers in interviews with Dr. Arnold Maltz, assistant professor of supply chain management, Arizona State University, and WERC's director of research.

Here's a sampling of Dr. Maltz's findings: Future warehousing will be some combination of traditional and emerging roles, depending upon the economics of the specific industry and individual customer. Storage may decrease, but not disappear, as industry gets better at supply chain management. Warehouses in the new networks tend to be large, but smaller than the combination of locations they replace.

Copies of the WERC report ($30 each for non-members, $15 for members, not including $4 s/h) are available from the Council. Call 630-990-0001 or go to the web site, www.werc.org.

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