Warehouse Management: Strategy, Implementation & Control
Details :
This highly popular training course in Dubai will enable
Supply Chain Professionals to understand how to improve the operations of any
warehouse by implementing lean operating processes, by intelligently managing
inventory, and by establishing a performance management program that ensures
continuous improvement. An effective warehousing strategy can be a powerful
competitive weapon.
Best-practice warehouses deliver superior customer
satisfaction and return on investment by functioning as a tightly-integrated
part of a company’s value chain. The purpose of this course is to show
how to implement all of the essential tools for the effective management of
warehouses and stores. This training course includes how to evaluate procedures
and how to improve methods by eliminating wasteful activities and excess costs.
- Develop an understanding of the role of warehouse in the end-to-end
supply chain
- Learn best practices for warehouse operating processes
- Develop an inventory strategy in the warehouse
- Leverage information technology to improve visibility
- Develop a performance management program to and drive positive change
- Warehouse and distribution professionals
- Procurement, buyers and purchasing professionals
- Production and manufacturing professionals
- Logistics professionals
- Supply chain generalists
Day One: 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
Day Two: 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, conducting a physical inventory audit
- Implementing Lean principles in the warehouse
- Continuous improvement and managing change
Day Three: Inventory, Analysis, and Product
Classification
- The 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
Day Four: 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
Day Five: Create a World-Class Warehouse with Performance
Management and Metrics
- Contemporary trends in warehousing
- Warehouse best practices and benchmarking
- The role of performance management in the warehouse
- What should you measure?
- Establish an executive dashboard using key performance indicators
(KPIs)
- Identifying, prioritizing, and implementing improvements.
- All lectures are in colorful presentation
- All lectures are interspersed with interactive discussion
- All lectures include group discussion, case history and exercises
- Actual major incidents as well as industry experience are reviewed
- Participants receive a multicolor course manual
- Pictures of real incidents and case history are shown
- Videos on the subject are shown
daily 09:00 – 14:00