Warehouse Management: Strategy, Implementation & Control

Course overview

Course outline

1. 1Day 1: Warehouse Infrastructure Strategies

   • Warehouse location strategy
   • Options in warehouse layout and design
   • Classes of warehouses
   • Warehouse automation
   • Information Technology (IT) in the warehouse
   • Industry variations
2. 2Day 2: Warehouse Operating Processes and Principles

   • Key functional processes from receiving to picking and shipping
   • Optimizing the flow of goods across processes
   • Advanced processes: break-bulk, cross-docking, mixing, assembly
   • Cycle counting and conducting a physical inventory audit
   • Implementing Lean principles in the warehouse
   • Continuous improvement and managing change
3. 3Day 3: Inventory, Analysis, and Product Classification

   • Function of inventory
   • Inventory accuracy and control
   • Handling WIP (Work-In-Progress) inventory
   • Three-dimensional inventory classification and segmentation (ABC)
   • Using inventory classification to drive efficiency
   • Replenishment methods and strategies
4. 4Day 4: Leveraging Your Resources and Developing New Capabilities

   • Managing and incentivizing your people
   • Employee training and evaluation
   • The IT environment: your enterprise and the warehouse
   • Role of the warehouse in the value chain
   • Outsourcing: risks and opportunities
   • Supplier collaboration models and strategies
5. 5Day 5: Create a World-Class Warehouse with Performance Management and Metrics

   • Contemporary trends in warehousing
   • Warehouse best practices and benchmarking
   • Role of performance management in the warehouse
   • What should you measure?
   • Establishing an executive dashboard using KPIs
   • Identifying, prioritizing, and implementing improvements