Professional warehouse management

Basics of 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.

Creating optimal conditions for warehouse operations

• Appropriate organizational structure of logistics.
• Warehouse location/determining factors, cost influences.
• Finding the right concept for warehouse operations.
• Flexibility in the face of changing business requirements.
• Measures to optimize the warehouse.
• Structural framework conditions, reduction of operating costs.

The central role of order picking

• Basics of order picking systems.
• Fields of application of various order picking systems in practice.
• Focus on the design of picking: pick and pack, two-stage picking, picking areas, stockpiling, etc.
• Procedure for concept planning.
• Tendering/awarding, outsourcing decisions: what to consider.

Analyze work/storage processes, increase productivity

• Understanding and optimizing warehouse processes.
• Principles for process/material flow design in the warehouse.
• Organizational forms for operating the warehouse.
• Warehouse strategies: Goods to man vs. man to goods, manual vs. automated.
• Use of modern information technologies (barcode, RFID, etc.).
• Methods of process recording/display.
• Derivation of optimization measures.
• 5S method for the lean warehouse.

More efficiency with IT systems that meet requirements

• Warehouse management systems, functionalities.
• Selection and introduction of warehouse management systems.
• The right IT equipment.
• Goods tracking, paperless picking, identification systems.

Controlling the warehouse with key figures (systems)

• Cost, quality and performance indicators, key performance indicator systems.
• Tracking goals with key figures, use of KPIs.