Sustainable warehouse management

Sustainable warehouse is about integrating, balancing and managing the economic, environmental and social inputs and outputs of the warehouse operations. Sustainability is a core value to many businesses but they find it hard to implement in their current business setting especially when they use third party logistics management system like warehousing and distribution in their supply chain business network. This paper explores the application of sustainability principles in the context of warehouse storage and distribution management and introduces a sustainability model for setting up of a warehouse or transformation of an existing warehouse that provides the storage services. The model in corporates the usage of third party transportation systems for supply and distribution services.