Contents
warehouse manager: responsibilities and tasks
- Optimize service/reduce costs, flexibility vs. standardization, create transparency; personnel: working time models, occupational safety, control of personnel deployment.
The pivotal point "warehouse": understanding important connections, working better in interfaces
- Warehouse levels/strategies, impact on warehouse organization and technical design, cooperation with production, quality management, shipping.
Warehouse strategy, warehouse organization, order picking
- Warehouse strategies, storage levels, putaway, replenishment, picking, inventory updating and management.
IT support in the warehouse - optimizing processes
- Designing warehouse processes; incoming goods, receipt, quality control; order fulfillment in the warehouse, picking, packing, shipping, outgoing goods; RFID, barcoding.
Technical design of the warehouse
- including warehouse equipment and operation, layout design, manually operated warehouses, automated systems, order picking systems.
Optimization of existing storage systems
- Weak point analysis, developing planning principles, optimizing processes, planning warehouse systems (basics); managing optimization projects.
Optimize warehouse stocks - reduce costs
- Methods/techniques of inventory optimization.
Excursus: Warehouse controlling
Leadership skills for warehouse managers
- The role of warehouse manager as a leader.
- Success through situational leadership: recognizing and complementing your own leadership style.
- Important management techniques for practical use: agreeing rules, conducting employee appraisals, consistent action.
- Managing conflicts professionally: conflict development, conflict styles, dealing with conflicts.
- Training based on seminar participants' own practical cases: e.g. conducting conflict, motivation and target agreement discussions.
E-learning: Conflict management
- This e-learning course will improve your conflict management skills and provide you with concrete support for acute conflicts.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.
Your benefit
- You will gain the necessary management knowledge to optimize and professionally manage your warehouse.
- You make your warehouse more effective and efficient, improve workflows and warehouse processes in terms of service and costs,
- You optimize inventories and reduce storage/capital commitment costs,
- You manage your warehouse as a service provider for internal and external customers and
- You lead your team in a goal-oriented manner.
Final examination
After the qualification you can participants take a final exam and receive a certificate of attendance based on the exam result. Haufe Akademie .
Methods
Trainer input, case/best-practice examples, work aids/checklists, exchange of experience. Role play, collegial practical advice.
Recommended for
Warehouse managers with initial experience and junior staff for this position, Employees with management responsibility in the warehouse area such as foremen, supervisors, team leaders, group leaders, shift supervisors.
Further recommendations for "Further training warehouse manager"
Seminar evaluation for "Further training warehouse manager"







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Start dates and details
Wednesday, 20.08.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 21.08.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 22.08.2025
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Monday, 27.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 28.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 29.10.2025
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

Wednesday, 26.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 27.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 28.11.2025
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Wednesday, 04.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 05.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 06.03.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

Monday, 18.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 19.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 20.05.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Monday, 14.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 15.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 16.09.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.