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Thinking outside the (warehouse) box

By JACK KUCHTA

Nontraditional warehouses are helping companies restructure their supply chains to meet the changing needs of their customers.

From the Quarter 03 2007 issue

Companies can no longer think of warehouses solely as brick-and-mortar structures with an abundance of truck docks, material handling equipment, and pickers and packers. These traditional facilities are being augmented by new, nontraditional warehouses that in some cases may be difficult to think of as warehouses at all....

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