If you're thinking about managing the design and implementation of a top-notch warehousing facility, a new book, Starting Up a World-Class DC: A Roadmap to Success, offers a step-by-step approach based on the development of Hershey Foods Corporation's Eastern Distribution Center. Hershey managed to successfully complete each step in the process in only a year and a half.

In addition, the 94-pg book, published by the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC), captures and relays practical concepts. The cost is $25 for members and $50 for non-members. For more information, visit www.werc.org .