How do I improve warehouse operations without burning out my management team?

You're asking the right question, which tells me you already sense the danger. I've seen warehouses boost output by twenty percent and lose three good managers doing it. That's not an improvement. That's trading one problem for a worse one. Start with clarity about what you're actually trying to improve. Speed? Quality? Safety? Keeping people? Cost? You can't max out all of them at once, and pretending you can is exactly what wears your team down. Pick the priority and tell your managers what it is and why. Then guard their time like you guard your stock. Constant new systems, endless meetings, surprise fire drills, these pile invisible weight on people. Before you add another project, ask what you're taking off their plate. What decision can you settle once so nobody keeps reopening it? Watch yourself first. If you're stressed all the time, so is your team. If you're working nights and weekends, so are they. That's not dedication, it's a broken system. Sometimes the strongest move is saying the improvement can wait until you've built the capacity to do it right. Good operations come from steady effort over time, not heroic sprints that leave scars.