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Modern Warehouse Management

Steel-Toed Leadership That Drives Performance

A practical leadership guide for operators who want better flow, sharper accountability, and more resilient distribution performance.

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Also by Will Quinn: Steel-Toed Leadership, out now.

WHAT'S INSIDE

A field manual for the modern DC leader.

Built from decades of floor-level work — receiving docks, slotting decisions, supervisor huddles, and hard conversations with leadership teams that needed momentum now.

Flow & Throughput

How to diagnose and fix movement problems that dashboards miss — from dock sequencing to returns handling.

Frontline Leadership

Building supervisors who create cadence, accountability, and trust — without adding complexity.

Layout & Slotting

Practical slotting strategy, travel reduction, and layout decisions that scale with your operation.

Customer Experience

Connecting internal operational decisions to what customers actually experience at delivery.

Continuous Improvement

Frontline-ready CI systems that create momentum without overwhelming teams or adding bureaucracy.

AI & Technology

How to evaluate, implement, and get real value from warehouse technology without disrupting your team.

THE ARGUMENT, TESTED

Inventory accuracy from 30% to 100%. No new technology.

The book's central claim was not worked out on a whiteboard. It was run in real facilities, and it is the reason the chapters are ordered the way they are: process discipline first, then the system on top of it.

30% → 100%

Inventory accuracy rebuilt at MSC Industrial Direct facilities with no new technology. Tighter process controls, clearer accountability, and an end to the small execution errors that compound into systemic failure.

A Monday Move in every chapter

Each chapter closes with a single concrete action you can take the following week. Foreword by Ian Heller, co-founder of Distribution Strategy Group.

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“You can’t write a book about running a warehouse from a classroom or a consulting deck. You have to have stood on the floor at 3 a.m. trying to figure out why your pick accuracy is falling apart.”

“If you don’t know what your current process actually is — not what it’s supposed to be, but what people are actually doing on the floor today — your WMS is going to automate the chaos, not fix it.”

“The ops manager running a 200,000-square-foot facility doesn’t need another book on supply chain theory. They need practical guidance on how to build a slotting strategy, run a cycle count program that actually works, develop their frontline supervisors, and talk to IT about a WMS implementation without getting lost.”

From A Noted Author Launches Practical Operations Guide for Distribution Professionals, Mark Brohan, Distribution Strategy Group, May 2026.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Will Quinn has spent 25+ years on distribution floors.

Not in the conference room. Not on the slide deck. On the dock. In the aisle. Walking the picks, questioning the slotting, and asking why freight keeps piling up at the same three locations.

Modern Warehouse Management is the book he wished existed when he started — direct, tactical, and written for people who actually run the building.

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