Excellence in Warehouse Management Performance

Decentralization creates huge coordination and organizational problems to align all business activities in a way that meets customer expectation in time, quality, quantity and place. Configuring global supply chains to streamline all activities is a rapid developing and exciting field where new tools and models are developed to match firm’s supply with customer demand.

About this Course

Decentralization creates huge coordination and organizational problems to align all business activities in a way that meets customer expectation in time, quality, quantity and place. Configuring global supply chains to streamline all activities is a rapid developing and exciting field where new tools and models are developed to match firm’s supply with customer demand. Why do some distribution centers have excellent performance while others struggle? Highly competitive warehouse management unravels the secrets of those best-in-class operations; this course provides a systematic yet flexible action plan for improvement, which involves human behavior, process redesign, warehouse management systems and supply chain alignment.

Course Objective

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- Apply methods and techniques to analyze the current state of their operations
- Use case studies, detailed examples and thought provoking questions will move your facility to best-in-class performance
- Understand how to apply contemporary management tools to warehouse management
- Appreciate the importance of warehouse management, as it is central to achieving high operational and financial performance for most contemporary enterprises
- Gain a wide knowledge of best-in-class operations and apply action plans for improvement

Course Methods

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include.

Lectures
Workshop & Work Presentation
Case Studies and Practical Exercise

Videos and General Discussions

Course Outline

Highly Competitive Warehouse Management
- Competitive advantage
- Best-in-class supply chain performance
- The clean socks experiment
- Four elements of warehouse optimization
- Growth path for warehouse optimization
- Warehouse maturity scan
The Challenge of Change
- Change management of facilitate a change-oriented culture
- Warehouse strategy to give direction
- Warehouse action plan to organize evolution
- Optimization actions to create fun and successes
- Project management to give guidance
Warehousing
- Warehouse justification
- Material handling
- Warehouse services
- Warehouse processes
- Inbound processes
- Storage
- Wave planning
- Outbound processes
- VAL
- Cross-dock
Warehouse Management Systems
- WMS modules
- Real-time communication
- Material handling control
- Interfaces
Effective Warehouse Management
- Service level agreements
- Standard operating procedures
- Activity-based costing
- Performance indicators
Process Efficiency
- Service level improvement
- Efficiency improvement
- Compact storage
Responsive Warehouse Management
- Justification
- Capacity planning
- Wave management
- Task management
Resource Utilization
- Utilization improvement
- Cut
- Activate
- Postpone
- Space utilization
Collaborative Warehouse Management
- Discontinuities
- Activity-based pricing
- Synchronized planning
- Virtual warehousing
Service Alignment
- Rationalize
- Accelerate-decelerate
- Balance