@article{Bouma:311296,
      recid = {311296},
      author = {Bouma, John C. and Kriesberg, Martin},
      title = {Measures of Operating Efficiency in Wholesale Food  Warehouses  },
      address = {1960-05},
      number = {2393-2021-1675},
      series = {Marketing Research Report No. 399},
      pages = {38},
      year = {1960},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report Introduction:  Management of a  modern warehouse or wholesale food distribution center is  complex. Scores of employees and large investments in  plant, equipment, and inventory are involved.  Merchandise  is handled in ever greater quantities and varieties.   Knowledge of the physical operations in the warehouse and  of ways of evaluating and controlling these operations is  necessary to the manager as a means of maintaining and  improving efficiency.  Evaluation and control require a  system of records that provide accurate and timely  information about warehouse operations.  This report  explains (1) measures which are useful for controlling  warehouse operations and some methods for obtaining the  information on which they are based; and (2) ways in which  warehouse management can make use of these measures to  improve operations and hold down warehousing costs.  The  report is based on studies among leading wholesale food  distributors in many States.  The studies included  discussions and observations of the firms’ development and  use of measures of labor productivity and performance, and  measures of the efficiency with which they were using their  equipment and warehousing facilities.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/311296},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.311296},
}