Effective warehouse management is essential for improving service levels, controlling costs, maintaining inventory accuracy, and supporting supply chain performance. Modern warehouses must balance speed, efficiency, technology, and workforce productivity while adapting to changing customer demands. This course provides participants with practical tools to design warehouse strategies, optimize operations, manage inventory, and implement world-class performance systems.
Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Warehouse Management: Strategy, Implementation & Control
Effective warehouse management is essential for improving service levels, controlling costs, maintaining inventory accuracy, and supporting supply chain performance. Modern warehouses must balance speed, efficiency, technology, and workforce productivity while adapting to changing customer demands. This course provides participants with practical tools to design warehouse strategies, optimize operations, manage inventory, and implement world-class performance systems.
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| Paris - France |
€2,200 + VAT
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| Barcelona - Spain |
€2,100 + VAT
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| Munich - Germany |
€2,125 + VAT
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| Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia |
€1,400 + VAT
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| Amsterdam - Netherlands |
€2,100 + VAT
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| London - United Kingdom |
€2,125 + VAT
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| Paris - France |
€2,200 + VAT
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| Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia |
€1,400 + VAT
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- Develop effective warehouse strategies and infrastructure plans
- Improve warehouse layout, flow, and operating efficiency
- Strengthen inventory control and accuracy
- Apply Lean and continuous improvement principles
- Optimize people, technology, and outsourced resources
- Build supplier collaboration and value chain integration
- Measure warehouse performance using KPIs
- Create improvement plans for world-class warehouse operations
This program is intended for professionals involved in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
- Warehouse Managers
- Logistics Supervisors
- Supply Chain Professionals
- Inventory Controllers
- Operations Managers
- Distribution Center Staff
- Anyone involved in warehouse operations and planning
This course uses an interactive and practical approach through presentations, case studies, warehouse process mapping, group discussions, KPI workshops, practical exercises, and real workplace examples.
Day1
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
Day2
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
Day3
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
Day4
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
Day5
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
SPARK Training Certificate of Completion is awarded to participants who attend and complete the full training course.
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