Logistics controlling from A to Z

Optimize processes - reduce costs - measure success

This training is held in German.
This training course teaches you how to develop and utilize the right logistics KPIs for your practice and which tools you can use to reduce your logistics costs, increase efficiency and ensure customer satisfaction. From order processing and production to warehousing and shipping, you will learn how to develop and interpret meaningful KPIs, understand their correlations and effects and know how to derive optimization measures from them.

Contents

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Basics

  • Meaning, correlations, benefits and areas of application of important key figures: When are which key figures useful, where and with what objective?

Key figures and control parameters for logistics practice

  • Development of key figures for your own practice, illustration using numerous practical examples.
  • Process controlling: e.g. productivity, throughput time, error rate.
  • Inventory controlling: including volume variability, stock range, forecast accuracy.
  • Production controlling: including OEE, set-up times, throughput time.
  • Warehouse/dispatch controlling: including daily up-to-dateness, warehouse fill level, availability level.
  • Key figures for the delivery service: e.g. on-time delivery, order throughput time, delivery service level.
  • Transport controlling: e.g. transit times, transport costs per shipment.
  • Cost controlling: including logistics costs per turnover, determination of process costs.

Development and implementation of a key performance indicator system

Reporting: The cockpit chart

Optimal use of key figures: Methods, procedures

  • Instruments and procedures to optimize processes, reduce costs, increase efficiency and ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Optimize inventories: including volume variability, ABC/XYZ, range and assortment analysis.
  • Making production lean: KAIZEN, TPM, KANBAN.
  • Increase warehouse/dispatch performance: including productivity, material flow and order structure analysis, optimized use of warehouse technology.
  • Fulfilling customer orders on time: including throughput time analysis, BPR (Business Process Reengineering).
  • Efficient organization of transport and distribution: including customer and sales/shipment structure analysis, tender management.

Excursus: Managing with key figures

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

Numerous practical examples will provide you with a solid foundation for your work.

  • You develop key figures for your practice. You can control and optimize inventories and service levels, shorten throughput times and make production processes, warehousing and shipping more efficient.
  • You are familiar with the informative value, benefits and areas of application of important KPIs and know which key figures you need to reduce costs, increase efficiency, etc.
  • You will derive suitable measures to optimize efficiency and earnings. You will be familiar with important tools for this.
  • You know how to present results and correlations in an understandable and concise way through reporting.

Methods

Trainer input, practical examples, exercises, checklists, work aids, exchange of experience.

Recommended for

Specialists/executives from logistics, materials/warehouse management and supply chain management. controllers and Employees with interfaces to controlling who are looking for up-to-date knowledge and further suggestions for action-oriented logistics controlling.

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Attendees comments

"Topical discussion, strong practical relevance, good group size, lecturer's wealth of experience."

Abdon Borgers
SGL Group, Bonn

"Very good seminar atmosphere - successful event!"

Dieter Schatz
Atotech Deutschland GmbH, Feucht

"Open and approachable speaker, practical learning content with real-life case studies. I was able to take a lot away with me."

Andreas Hartung
DEK Printing Machines GmbH, Bad Vilbel

"Very up-to-date, many case studies."

Manuel Greiner
FrieslandCampina Germany GmbH, Heilbronn

Seminar evaluation for "Logistics controlling from A to Z"

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