WAREHOUSE DESIGN & LAYOUT

Introduction

This course deals with how to design the most appropriate, cost effective, warehouse for an organization’s requirements. The course was developed at Cranfield University in the UK and has been regularly updated to keep abreast of current thinking in modern warehouse systems and design.

Attendees will design an actual warehouse through a detailed case study.

Date

19^th - 21^st May 2010

Location

The Park Hotel, Bengaluru

Why you cannot miss this workshop?

• This is a 3 day workshop run under license from the Logistics Education Centre (LEC), based at the Cranfield University campus in UK.
• The course deals with how to design the most appropriate, cost effective, warehouse for an organization’s requirements.
• This workshop has been successfully run for the last 3 decades all across the globe and constantly upgraded to include the changing needs of the warehouse design discipline.
• A rigorous detailed workshop manual on concepts of Warehouse Design as a takeaway
• Practical hands-on workshop cases on “Planning a Pallet Store”, “Designing a Distribution Center”, and “Planning an Order Picking Center”
• Right blend of lecture, illustrations, audio-visual presentations, workshops, cases, practical examples
• Successfully run 8 times in India under the “ThinkLink Supply Chain Development Series”

• Fundamental Principles of Warehouse Design and Layout: Outlines the key principles including Optimization of Space, Flow of Materials and Equipment, Types of Storage i.e. bulk vs. small parts etc. and appropriate combinations of storage and handling equipment, different types of warehouses etc.

• Data Collection: Design Procedure; the importance of recording sufficient data accurately and in the most appropriate format, methods of obtaining data and possible sources; the importance of validating the database before proceeding to subsequent design stages

• Using Pareto Analysis for determining Popularity Storage: Using a Case Study attendees determine which is the “fast” moving items and the ideal location for these items to make them readily accessible.

• Small Parts Storage and Selecting appropriate Storage and Handling Equipment: Using real life examples attendees learn how to select the best combination of storage and handling equipment for small parts storage

• Bulk Materials Storage and Selecting appropriate Storage and Handling Equipment: Using real life examples attendees learn how to select the best combination of storage and handling equipment for bulk materials

• Establishing the best combination of Handling and Storage Equipment: Given the materials to be stored this section describes the “best” combination of storage and handling equipment.

• Deciding on how much equipment is required: Attendees learn how to decide on the right quantities of storage and handling equipment to suit their particular needs

• Order Picking Systems Design and Equipment: Review of the different methods of order picking and their suitability to different types of picking operation; order picking equipment types and their characteristics; reserve and picking stock

• Loading Bay Design: A detailed look at the important factors in the design of goods inwards and the dispatch sections of a warehouse and the external access and vehicle marshaling areas; a review of dock leveling, handling and load/unload equipment and environmental considerations

• How to determine Warehouse-Staffing requirements: Describes how to determine the staffing requirements for a warehouse operation using the case study.

• How to cost the various options and select the most cost effective option: Describes how to cost various combinations of equipment and personnel and select the most cost effective option.

• Warehouse Automation: Outline of the key principles of Warehouse Automation and Mechanization and key factors that influence the decision to automate a warehouse.

• Conducting a Warehouse Audit & “quick & easy” areas for performance improvement in the warehouse: This module covers a process for conducting a Warehouse Audit to determine potential areas for performance improvement and for benchmarking warehouse performance. Also covered are areas for “immediate” performance improvement through observation of warehouse operations.

Program Leader: Lew Roberts

Lew is President and founder of L. Roberts & Associates Inc., which is a USA based firm that provides a wide range of professional Consulting and Management Development Services aimed at improving Business Performance, with an emphasis in the field of Supply Chain Management. His Consulting and Management Development Career over the past 20 years has included working with Ryder, UPS, Menlo, Exel, Owens Corning, Coca-Cola, Georgia-Pacific, SAPPI, Baxter, De Beers, Mercedes Benz, Nissan and many other major firms worldwide. Lew has been invited to speak at many Conferences and Universities in his chosen field, including the Colorado School of Mines, Cleveland State University, the University of Toledo, the National University of Singapore, Macquarie University and the University of Pretoria. He is also a speaker on the Executive Masters in International Logistics (EMIL) Program conducted by Georgia Tech University in the USA. In addition, Lew has written many articles on the subject of business performance improvement and supply chain management and he is the co-author of a book published in 2009 titled “Managing Global Supply and Risk: Best Practices, Concepts and Strategies”.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is targeted for Senior Professionals, Entrepreneurs, Senior Government Officials and Managers with focus on different roles around Distribution Centers, Container Terminals, ICD's, SEZ, FTWZ, Freight Stations, Warehouse

Those involved in the decision making, design and management and related policy and investments of a warehouse including

• Business Leaders
• VP / Directors / Heads Supply Chain, Logistics
• VP / Directors / Heads Materials
• VP / Directors / Heads Industrial Engineering
• VP / Directors / Heads Distribution
• Program Managers
• Management Consultants
• Business Analysts

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Manvi Goyal
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