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Training for Professionals

Professional Warehouse Management

Optimize Processes – Reduce Costs – Increase Customer Satisfaction

This training is suitable for (young) executives, professionals from logistics, warehouse-/materials management, scheduling, dispatch, who want to acquire a basic overview of a professional warehouse management.

To manage a warehouse professional, high demands must be met around the internal logistics. Cost efficiency and customer orientation are in the focus of the warehouse management. We teach you the conditions for successful storage design, the efficient picking and designing the warehouse processes, including inventory control important correlations, methods and instruments.

Your Benefit

The management processes in warehouses and distribution centers provide the employees with major challenges. Only by considering all factors and external influences and an ever-repeating analysis of warehouse processes sustainable, resource-saving, environmentally friendly and economical storage is possible. 

This seminar conveys you the conditions for successful storage design, the efficient picking and designing the warehouse processes, including inventory control important correlations, methods and instruments. You receive immediate actionable practical knowledge and train basic methods and instruments. You learn, how to

  • uncover weaknesses in the warehouse and take cost-cutting measures,
  • analyze and increase the productivity of the warehouse processes,
  • assess and optimize the commissioning system as the core of warehouse operations,
  • assess conditions of the warehouse properly and discover optimization potential,
  • recognize and affect interfaces and dependencies with other departments / suppliers
  • control the warehouse with indicators and establish appropriate performance measurement systems.

In this cross-industry seminar, you will benefit from an exciting experience and obtain valuable input.

    1. Introduction to Warehouse Management
    • the warehouse as a strategic factor in the Supply Chain,
    • integration of the warehouse in the company with
    • suppliers and customers,
    • current developments and trends
    1. Conditions for a Professional Warehouse Management
    • appropriate organizational structure of logistics,
    • warehouse location, determining factors, cost factors,
    • finding the right warehouse management concept,
    • flexibility with respect to changing business needs,
    • measures to optimize the warehouse,
    • constructional conditions, reduce operating costs.
    1. The Central Role of Commissioning
    • introduction to commissioning systems,
    • fields of application of different commissioning systems
    • priorities for carrying out the commissioning
    • approach to the concept planning,
    • tender/award, outsourcing-decisions
    1. Optimum Design of Work Processes
    • principles for process design and materials flow structure,
    • order processing, warehouse operation,
    • warehouse strategies,
    • methods of process recording/presentation, analysis
    • of weak points, derivation of improvement actions,
    • 5S-methode for streamlined warehouse
    1. IT-Systems in Warehousing
    • warehouse management systems, functionalities,
    • selection and implementation of warehouse management systems
    • shipment tracking, paperless inventory picking, identification systems
    1. Performance Measurement Systems in Logistics
    • key costs indicators, quality performance indicators, performance indicators
    • pursue goals with metrics
Learning / Teaching Methods

Lecture, Case Studies, Exercise/Group Work, Practical Tips, Tools, Discussion, Exchange of Experience

Certification

Certificate of Participation 

Venue

Germany, China

Duration

7 days